Best Practices
Tracking Vendor-Supplied Binaries In Your Runtime
Vendor binaries run as root and ship without SBOMs. Continuous discovery brings them under the same governance as your own code.
Mar 5, 20267 min read
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.
Vendor binaries run as root and ship without SBOMs. Continuous discovery brings them under the same governance as your own code.
MCP servers are privileged dependencies. An inventory that tracks them like SBOM tracks packages is the minimum bar — and not every tool meets it.
Quarterly inventories are wrong by the time they are signed. Continuous discovery is the only model that matches modern rates of change.
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