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Securing GitHub Actions Reusable Workflows at Scale

Reusable workflows centralize CI logic — and centralize compromise. Pinning, secrets scoping, org policy, and the review process that keeps one bad merge from owning 400 repos.

Sep 14, 20256 min read
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Java Supply Chain Security Beyond Log4Shell

Log4Shell was the fire drill. The structural problems — unverified Maven resolution, invisible shaded jars, sprawling transitive graphs — are still there. Here's what to actually fix.

Aug 21, 20256 min read
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Sigstore Cosign Keyless Signing Explained for Teams

Keyless signing swaps long-lived private keys for ten-minute certificates tied to an OIDC identity. How Fulcio and Rekor work, and how to roll it out without breaking deploys.

Jul 24, 20256 min read
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Monitoring Package Maintainer Changes as a Threat Signal

Most package hijacks start with a maintainer change nobody was watching. Registry metadata makes these events observable — if you bother to look.

Jun 14, 20256 min read
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Vendoring Dependencies: When It Helps and When It Hurts Security

Committing dependencies to your repo buys immutability and availability — and quietly breaks scanners, updates, and license tracking. Here's the honest ledger.

May 25, 20257 min read
Engineering

Go Module Security: sumdb, GOPROXY and Private Modules

How Go's checksum database actually protects you, where GOPROXY ordering bites, and the GOPRIVATE mistakes that leak internal module paths to public infrastructure.

Feb 27, 20257 min read
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Container Image Digests vs Tags: Why Pinning Matters

A tag is a mutable pointer; a digest is the image. Pinning by digest is the difference between deploying what you tested and deploying whatever the registry says today.

Feb 16, 20256 min read
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Python Wheels vs Source Distributions: Security Implications

Installing an sdist runs someone else's code on your machine; installing a wheel doesn't. That one difference drives most PyPI malware — and most of the right defenses.

Nov 27, 20246 min read
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CycloneDX and SPDX: Why Safeguard Supports Both and How We Normalize Between Them

The SBOM format debate misses the point. Safeguard ingests both CycloneDX and SPDX, normalizes to a common model, and lets you query and export in either format.

Oct 15, 20247 min read
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