What Are Secure Coding Standards
Secure coding standards are enforceable rules — like OWASP and CERT — that stop specific CWEs before code ships. Here's what they cover and how to enforce them.
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.
Secure coding standards are enforceable rules — like OWASP and CERT — that stop specific CWEs before code ships. Here's what they cover and how to enforce them.
How Maven's groupId system and multi-repo resolution let attackers slip malicious packages into Java builds — and how to close the internal vs public repo gap.
CERT secure coding standards give C, C++, and Java developers rule-by-rule guidance — with IDs, risk scores, and fix patterns — for avoiding exploitable bugs.
CVE-2024-57727 is a path traversal in ConnectWise ScreenConnect enabling arbitrary file read on self-hosted instances. Chain, detection, and patching.
A step-by-step guide to scanning Kotlin and Android projects with OWASP Dependency-Check: Gradle plugin setup, CI automation, triage, and suppressions.
OpenSSL CMS pre-auth stack buffer overflow scored CVSS 9.8. Mail servers, web servers, and anything that processes S/MIME need the fix. Defender playbook below.
AWS Signer integrates with Notation for OCI image signing. The hard part is not signing — it is the trust policy that decides what gets to run. We walk through one that holds up.
An AI security tool that cites the wrong advisory is worse than one that says nothing. Griffin AI benchmarks citation accuracy at 0.89 similarity; Mythos does not.
Server-side request forgery is a test of how well your scanner understands the boundary between trusted and untrusted URLs. Griffin's engine resolves URL construction through string builders, template engines, and HTTP client configuration; Mythos reads the code and guesses. On modern applications that is the difference between a finding you can ship and a finding you cannot defend.
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