NIST SSDF 1.2 Draft: What the Comment Period Revealed
NIST opened public comment on SP 800-218r1 SSDF v1.2 on December 17, 2025. The draft adds AI development practices, refines supply-chain controls, and aligns with EO 14306.
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.
NIST opened public comment on SP 800-218r1 SSDF v1.2 on December 17, 2025. The draft adds AI development practices, refines supply-chain controls, and aligns with EO 14306.
CycloneDX 1.7 was published in October 2025 and adopted by the General Assembly in December. We unpack what the ML-BOM capability means in practice for AI inventory.
The Coalition for Secure AI published two operational frameworks in November 2025: Signing ML Artifacts and AI Incident Response. We unpack what each contains and how to adopt them.
SPDX 3.0 was published in March 2025 with a dedicated AI profile and a Dataset profile. We walk through how to produce a defensible AIBOM in SPDX format alongside or in place of CycloneDX.
In January 2025 Wiz Research found a wide-open ClickHouse instance belonging to AI startup DeepSeek, leaking chat history, API keys, and internal log streams. We unpack the AI-supply-chain implications.
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