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What if an enterprise buyer asks to review your source code?
A buyer wants to read your code before signing. Options a SaaS startup can offer instead: evidence packs, scoped walkthroughs and supervised review.
Oct 19, 20264 min read
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How do you set business criticality tiers for vulnerability triage?
Three tiers are enough: critical, important and everything else. Here is how to assign them with the business owner and how tiers change fix timing.
Oct 19, 20264 min read
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Bump, pin, override, replace, fork or remove: which fix to use?
Six ways to fix a vulnerable dependency in plain words, with a decision table: bump, pin, override, replace, fork and remove, and when each applies.
Oct 19, 20265 min read
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How do you build your first SDK and API inventory in one week?
A five-day plan for a first third-party SDK and API inventory: scope, discover, reconcile, assign owners and publish, with a minimum useful record.
Oct 19, 20263 min read
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Build time scan or deployed estate scan: which do you need?
Build time scans catch problems before release, deployed scans catch what ships and what changes after. Why app teams on mixed estates usually need both.
Oct 19, 20263 min read
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Build-time, deploy-time and run-time controls: what is the difference?
Build-time controls inspect what you make, deploy-time controls decide what may start, run-time controls watch what is live. Definitions and a comparison.
Oct 19, 20264 min read
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Why shouldn't password reset links use the Host header?
If your reset email builds its link from the request Host header, an attacker can aim the link at their own site. Hard code the base URL instead.
Oct 19, 20263 min read
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How do you build an alert ownership map for security signals?
An alert ownership map says which team gets each security signal, who backs them up and when it escalates. A table template and steps to build one.
Oct 19, 20263 min read
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How do you build a security exception register for SSDF?
SSDF examples ask for a process for requirement exceptions with periodic review. A simple register template: fields, approvers and review rules.
Oct 19, 20263 min read
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