Container Security
Lessons from the CNCF Kubernetes security audit
The 2019 CNCF Kubernetes security audit found 37 issues rooted in insecure defaults. Here's what it uncovered and what still applies today.
Jun 25, 20267 min read
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Federal AST mandate M-22-09 explained
OMB's M-22-09 forces federal agencies to run continuous application security testing under zero trust. Here's what changed, and how Safeguard compares to Checkmarx.
Jun 25, 20267 min read
Container Security
Runtime security tools for Kubernetes clusters
A concrete look at Kubernetes runtime security tools — Falco, Tetragon, Tracee, eBPF, and recent CVEs — and what to check before you buy one.
Jun 25, 20267 min read
Compliance
SOC 2 Type II and vendor trust in AppSec tooling
Why SOC 2 Type II compliance is the real trust signal for AppSec vendors, where Checkmarx's public evidence falls short, and how Safeguard makes its audit trail verifiable.
Jun 25, 20267 min read
Buyer's Guides
Best SBOM Tools in 2026: Generation, Management, and Compliance Compared
An honest guide to the best SBOM tools in 2026 — from open-source generators like Syft and Trivy to full SBOM management and AIBOM platforms — with clear guidance on which to use for generation, analysis, and compliance.
Jun 24, 20265 min read
Buyer's Guides
Best Software Supply Chain Security Platforms in 2026: A Buyer's Guide
An honest, side-by-side guide to the best software supply chain security platforms in 2026 — what each tool is genuinely good at, who it fits, and how to choose between zero-CVE, SCA, reachability, and CNAPP approaches.
Jun 24, 20266 min read
AI Security
Daybreak vs. Mythos: 2026 Is the Year the Frontier Labs Entered Defensive Security
OpenAI's Daybreak and Anthropic's Mythos both bet that frontier models can find and fix vulnerabilities at scale. The discovery race is real — but the bottleneck, the cost curve, and the winning strategy all point the same direction: be model-agnostic.
Jun 24, 20266 min read
Threat Intelligence
2026 Mid-Year Threat Landscape: Supply-Chain Worms, Agentic AI, and Edge Zero-Days
A defender's synthesis of the first half of 2026 — self-propagating package worms, the agentic-AI access-control problem, edge-appliance zero-days, and a healthcare ransomware surge — and what to prioritize next.
Jun 24, 20265 min read
AI Security
Patch the Planet: What AI-Generated Fixes Actually Mean for Open-Source Maintainers
OpenAI's Patch the Planet, co-founded with Trail of Bits, wants to move widely-used open-source projects from findings to fixes. The ambition is right — but it shifts the bottleneck to maintainer review, patch provenance, and the trust of machine-authored code.
Jun 24, 20266 min read
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