risk-acceptance
Safeguard articles tagged "risk-acceptance" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
4 articles
The System Nobody Touches Is Unpatched by Default, Not by Decision
It works, it matters, the person who built it has left, and everyone has agreed without discussing it that touching it is riskier than leaving it. That agreement gets more expensive every month.
The Postmortem Was Good. The Action Items Were Not Done.
Nine items with named owners. Six months later two are done, four are in a backlog, two were closed without checking, and one is the direct cause of the incident you are having now.
What to Do With a Critical Vulnerability That Has No Fix
Every remediation process assumes a patch exists. When the maintainer is gone and the package sits three levels deep in a tree you do not control, you need a different workflow: narrow the exposure, then decide, document, control and expire.
Changing Scanners Means Migrating Three Years of Triage Decisions
Findings regenerate. Suppressions, risk acceptances, severity overrides and exclusion scope do not. The composite key that matches most of them, what should not carry over, and the sequence that keeps the review queue before cutover.
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