Best Practices
How to Audit Open Source Licenses for Compliance
A senior engineer's playbook for auditing open source licenses across modern polyglot repos, from SPDX extraction to enforcement in CI and legal reporting.
Mar 2, 20268 min read
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The OSV Vulnerability Database API Cookbook
Practical patterns for using the OSV.dev API in production: batch queries, schema gotchas, version range parsing, and how to integrate OSV data into your own vulnerability pipelines.
Mar 2, 20265 min read
DevSecOps
JFrog Xray Deployment Blueprint 2026
A pragmatic blueprint for deploying JFrog Xray in 2026: indexing strategy, watch policies, build promotion gates, and the operational pitfalls to avoid.
Mar 2, 20265 min read
Engineering
Alpine vs Distroless vs Ubuntu Base Images: Security Tradeoffs
Alpine is small, distroless is smaller, Ubuntu is comfortable. The real security question is CVE surface vs debuggability vs compatibility — with numbers.
Mar 2, 20267 min read
Best Practices
Vulnerability Management at Enterprise Scale: What Actually Works
Managing vulnerabilities across thousands of applications and millions of dependencies requires fundamentally different approaches than what works for a single team. Here is what scales.
Mar 2, 20267 min read
AI Security
What is a Model Inversion Attack
Model inversion attacks reconstruct sensitive training data from a model's outputs. Learn how they work, real cases, and how to defend your ML APIs.
Mar 2, 20267 min read
Open Source Security
npm Package Takeover: The Summer 2024 Wave
Between May and June 2024 at least 36 npm packages were hijacked via expired maintainer domains and leaked tokens. We map the cluster.
Mar 2, 20265 min read
Identity Security
SPIFFE/SPIRE identity
What is SPIFFE/SPIRE? A plain-language breakdown of the SPIFFE identity framework, SPIRE workload identity, SVIDs, and how it compares to plain mTLS.
Mar 2, 20267 min read
DevSecOps
Migrating From Ansible to GitOps: A Supply Chain Perspective
Move from Ansible to GitOps with supply chain security intact. Pattern-by-pattern migration, trust boundary changes, and pitfalls to avoid in the transition.
Mar 2, 20267 min read
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