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Safeguard articles tagged "dependency-review" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.

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Software Supply Chain Security

GitHub dependency graph and dependency review explained

How GitHub Dependency Graph and Dependency Review actually work, what GitHub Advanced Security adds on top, and where the coverage gaps are for teams relying on manifest-only scanning.

Jun 29, 20267 min read
Guides

How to Set Up Dependency Review on GitHub Pull Requests

GitHub's dependency-review-action can block PRs that introduce vulnerable or badly-licensed packages. Here is the exact configuration, plus the cases it silently misses.

Sep 17, 20255 min read
Open Source

universal-cookie: Package Review and Cookie Security Basics

A review of the universal cookie npm package: what it does in isomorphic apps, the advisory it inherited through its cookie dependency, and the cookie security flags that matter more than the library.

Aug 27, 20257 min read
Open Source

broadcast-channel npm Package: Health, Security, and Alternatives

A practitioner review of the broadcast-channel npm package: maintenance health, how its storage fallbacks work, the security boundaries of cross-tab messaging, and when the native API is enough.

Apr 9, 20257 min read
Open Source Security

Rust Tokio Dependency Security Review

Tokio is the async runtime underneath most production Rust. A supply chain review of Tokio and the crates that orbit it — dependencies, CVE history, and what changes across versions.

Aug 22, 20246 min read
DevSecOps

How to Enable Dependency Review on GitHub PRs

A step-by-step tutorial for turning on GitHub Dependency Review, enforcing license and severity policies, and getting fast feedback on every pull request.

Oct 12, 20236 min read

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