Deep dives, practical guides, and incident analyses from engineers who build Safeguard. No fluff, no vendor FUD — just what you need to ship secure software.
Gem signing never took off, yanking is weaker than people assume, and trusted publishing finally fixes the credential problem. What to actually rely on in a Ruby pipeline.
Installing an sdist runs someone else's code on your machine; installing a wheel doesn't. That one difference drives most PyPI malware — and most of the right defenses.
The SBOM format debate misses the point. Safeguard ingests both CycloneDX and SPDX, normalizes to a common model, and lets you query and export in either format.
cargo audit catches known-bad versions, cargo vet forces someone to actually read the code. What each tool covers, what neither covers, and how to run both without hating your CI.
Most escrow deposits are write-only: nobody ever verifies they build. What escrow actually covers, when to pay for verification, and what continuity means for SaaS and OSS.
Your CI system is a production system with worse access controls. A first threat model of the pipeline takes one whiteboard session and usually finds something ugly.
Alpine is small, distroless is smaller, Ubuntu is comfortable. The real security question is CVE surface vs debuggability vs compatibility — with numbers.
SLSA Build L3 is achievable in a week per repo if you use a hosted builder — and nearly impossible if you insist on rolling your own. Here is the practical path.
composer.lock is your integrity anchor, Packagist is a single point of trust, and roughly one in ten packages you depend on is quietly unmaintained. A field guide.
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