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Today Karnataka marks the day it came together as a state. Wishing everyone celebrating Kannada Rajyotsava a warm and happy 1 November, in Bengaluru, across Karnataka and wherever you are in the world. #KannadaRajyotsava #Karnataka #Bengaluru

Today Karnataka marks the day it came together as a state. Wishing everyone celebrating Kannada Rajyotsava a warm and happy 1 November, in Bengaluru, across Karnataka and wherever you are in the world. #KannadaRajyotsava #Karnataka #Bengaluru

Should your dependency supply be replaced by default, or fixed and guarded where it is? Per Chainguard's Libraries documentation, 28 Oct 2026, its endpoints serve only Chainguard built packages by default, with upstream fallback as an option. Per the same docs, rebuilds can change checksums, which matters for lockfiles. Safeguard's registry passes anything not in Gold through unchanged, while Safeguard Gold rebuilds patched versions of open-source packages from source, signs each build, and attaches an SBOM, SLSA provenance and VEX. Package Firewall evaluates npm and pip installs and can block malicious, typosquatted and dependency confusion packages. The post compares both and ends with a test for your own repositories: https://lnkd.in/gM3B_7sw

Torq announced it had acquired Jit on 19 May 2026, per Torq's announcement. The coverage we read, as of 28 Oct 2026, does not say what happens to the standalone Jit application security product. That is a gap, not a verdict. If Jit is in your pipeline, what should you ask in writing? Support, roadmap, data handling, assignment and price at renewal are a start. Our guide has the dated timeline, the questions, and a 30 day checklist for keeping your SBOMs and policies portable: https://lnkd.in/gNAKitfy

Two ways to deal with CVEs in container images: change the base image, or fix the one you already run. Per Chainguard's documentation, 28 Oct 2026, most of its images are distroless and built on its own Wolfi distribution, so adopting them means a base image change. Safeguard Gold rebuilds patched versions of open-source packages and images from source, signs each build, attaches an SBOM, SLSA provenance and VEX, and serves them from https://lnkd.in/gsNhNGDq. The image you chose keeps its name. Per Chainguard's containers page, 28 Oct 2026, it also offers FIPS validated variants and a contractual CVE SLA on paid plans, and the post says where that matters. Trade-offs and a bake-off checklist: https://lnkd.in/gCAKBCDK

Do you want one tool to coordinate many scanners, or one engine that goes deep on the problem that hurts most? Per Jit's documentation, read 28 Oct 2026, Jit packages named open source scanners into security plans described as code. Safeguard runs its own engines for supply chain risk and opens tested fix pull requests, with autonomous remediation off until you turn on each category. Each has trade-offs. Our comparison covers where orchestration is strong, what to test on your own repos, and when to choose either: https://lnkd.in/gtJpmznJ

Want to see the product before you book a call with anyone? Safeguard Product Demos 24/7 is live on YouTube. Walkthroughs of the platform play on a loop, so you can watch how it works at your own pace, any hour of the day. It is on right now: https://lnkd.in/gb9F-rmC

If you run security for other companies, here is a way to add software supply chain and application security to what you deliver. Safeguard's partner program has a track for MSSPs and managed security providers. Offer Safeguard as part of a managed detection, managed compliance or managed VAPT service, and operate the platform on behalf of your clients. Consultancies can also resell it, or white-label it under their own brand and keep the customer relationship, pricing and UI. What partners get: Partners earn a 30% margin A partner portal with sandbox tenants for POC scoping and an asset library Training, battlecards and demo environments Open worldwide Audit firms can join too, through referral and co-marketing. There is no commission, so audit independence stays intact. Apply on the partners page and we book a 30 minute fit call: https://lnkd.in/gE6e8Y34 #MSSP #Partners #ChannelPartners #AppSec

New CVEs, CISA KEV additions and malicious npm and PyPI package advisories land all day. Who has time to watch every feed? Safeguard Threat Radar is live on YouTube, 24/7. It brings public advisories together in one live view, so you can see what is new at a glance. Every item comes from public sources. Open it on a second screen: https://lnkd.in/gvFxkf8p

Is Safeguard SOC 2 compliant? Six minutes, straight answers. Ask Safeguard, Ep 4 is live: SOC 2 and compliance, what is true today. Mira asks the questions a vendor review asks, and Cal answers from our published pages: Safeguard is SOC 2 Type I and Type II audited, what a readiness score is and is not, how to automate evidence without the screenshot sprint, and what to ask any security vendor for. Mira and Cal are AI voices. The script is written by the Safeguard team and checked against our published research. Listen on Spotify: https://lnkd.in/gqdBNBuz #SecurityPodcast #Compliance #SOC2

Every podcast episode we have made, on a loop, all day and all night. Safeguard Podcasts 24/7 is live on YouTube. Software supply chain security, dependency fixes, audits and patching, explained in plain language. Leave it running while you work, or jump in whenever you have a few minutes. It is on right now: https://lnkd.in/gwXmWEZf

Is it safe to let a tool auto-merge your dependency fixes? And who signs off on a pull request that a tool wrote? Ask Safeguard, Season 1, Episode 5, "AI fixes: how they stay safe", is out on YouTube. Mira asks the questions teams raise before they let automatic fixes near their repositories, and Cal answers: human review by default, opt in auto-merge behind passing CI, and your tests run before a pull request opens. Watch the episode: https://lnkd.in/grd6qhtz

Which 5 things do I fix first? Ask Claude that in plain English, with Safeguard added from Claude's connector directory, and you get a short list of upgrades, not a wall of CVEs. Claude reads your Safeguard vulnerability data and: 1. Puts known exploited flaws at the top, along with anything reachable that already has a fix 2. Uses the severity score only to break ties 3. Groups every vulnerability on one package into one upgrade, and flags major version jumps The connector is read only by default. Claude ranks the list and drafts the ticket text. A person makes the change. Vulnerability management with EPSS and KEV is GA. Reachability analysis is GA. Full walkthrough: https://lnkd.in/gbA-SZUx #AppSec #VulnerabilityManagement #DevSecOps

Chainguard changes your base image. Safeguard Gold fixes the one you already chose. We are a competitor, so read this as a vendor's view. Per the post, Chainguard has the larger, more mature container catalog, with distroless images, FIPS variants and a CVE SLA on paid plans. Its own FAQ defines zero CVE as no known CVEs at publish time, which is worth reading closely. Safeguard Gold rebuilds the images you run and serves them through https://lnkd.in/gwiqeFis by the same pull path. It also covers what Wolfi is, who controls it, when to choose each, and a container bake-off checklist. Compared as of 28 October 2026, with sources. The full comparison: https://lnkd.in/gf97_j6K

Every codebase has a haunted package. The one nobody remembers adding, nobody owns, and nobody dares touch. Happy Halloween. Enjoy the candy, and if you want one small trick before Monday: pick a dependency you cannot explain and find out who added it and why. #Halloween #SupplyChainSecurity #AppSec

Is Safeguard SOC 2 compliant? Six minutes, straight answers, now on YouTube. Ask Safeguard, Episode 4: SOC 2 and compliance, what is true today. Mira asks the questions a vendor review asks and Cal answers from our published pages: Safeguard is SOC 2 Type I and Type II audited, what a readiness score is and is not, how to automate evidence without the screenshot sprint, and what to ask any security vendor for. Watch: https://lnkd.in/g_rC7H4w

Chainguard Libraries serves rebuilt Java, Python and JavaScript dependencies by default. Safeguard fixes what is vulnerable and blocks bad installs. We are a competitor, so read this as a vendor's view. Per the post, Chainguard has the more developed rebuilt library catalog, with malware scanning, cooldowns and a verification command. Safeguard's side: Gold serves fixed builds under the same names and passes everything else through, and Package Firewall makes the install time decision for npm and pip. The two can sit side by side. It also covers checksum changes on rebuilt packages, when to choose each, and a bake-off checklist. Compared as of 28 October 2026, with sources. The full comparison: https://lnkd.in/gPcZA7DJ

We built a radio station for people who read diffs for a living. Safeguard FM is live on YouTube, 24/7: ambient music for security engineers. Put it on for deep work, code review, or that long dependency audit you keep putting off. No talking, no ads, just something calm behind the terminal. It is on right now: https://lnkd.in/gjyVSEHe

A guardrail that takes your AI feature down gets switched off, and then it protects nothing. That is why Safeguard AI Gateway starts in monitor mode and fails open. It sits between your app and the model provider, evaluates every prompt, response and tool call, and records an audited event for each decision. Traffic passes through unchanged until an admin turns on enforce mode for the tenant, which then redacts or blocks per your policy. Two design points from the docs: a 150 ms default evaluation budget, and raw prompt and response text is never persisted. Fail-closed is an explicit opt-in for teams that want it. Run monitor mode for a week, see what enforcement would have caught, then switch it on. Placement, checks, the policy file and a 30 day rollout plan: https://lnkd.in/gWnTGmiz #LLMSecurity #AIGovernance #PromptInjection

Some code needs silence. Some code needs a beat. Safeguard Lo-fi is live on YouTube, 24/7: beats to code to. Put it on for the long refactor, the review queue, or the 2 a.m. dependency bump. No talking, no ads. It is on right now: https://lnkd.in/g32MFnqX

Most trials end in a free extension, then in nothing. The fix is writing the exit decision before day one. Our four week plan for a Safeguard proof of value: connect a few representative repositories and one pipeline in week one, read SBOMs and findings in week two, run policy gates in warn mode in week three, and finish with a written yes, extend or no in week four. Success is a set of questions you answer from your own data, not a target number. The post also covers where scans run, what the AI does and how to turn it off, and what a trial cannot tell you. Read the plan: https://lnkd.in/g4b9qCcf

What changed in this release? When a customer or a regulator asks, the answer is a diff between two SBOMs. CISA's 2026 minimum elements say a new build or release should come with a new SBOM. They also add an SBOM author signature and a generation context. One SBOM a quarter does not meet that. The pipeline in our guide, step by step: 1. Generate. safeguard ci scan runs in CI, and each run becomes a project version (named like main-a1b2c3d) with its SBOM. 2. Gate. Fail the step at a severity with --fail-on. 3. Attest. Safeguard signs the attestations it produces with its own key. There is no CLI signing command yet, so signing your own SBOM file is still your step. 4. Publish. Portal keeps an immutable copy per product version. 5. Diff. Compare two releases: components added and removed, version changes, new and resolved vulnerabilities. Read the new vulnerabilities first. Full pipeline, with the caveats: https://lnkd.in/gj27uARQ Footage: SBOM explainer animation by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (public domain, https://lnkd.in/gynYcpKT). People footage: Mixkit stock (Mixkit Stock Video Free License). #SBOM #SoftwareSupplyChain #DevSecOps

Hritik Kumar Sharma, Founder and CEO of https://lnkd.in/g97neSw3 http://Inc., visited TechD Cybersecurity Limited's Ahmedabad office from June 17 to 19, 2026. He met TechD founder and CEO Sunny Vaghela and toured the company's new office. The visit followed the collaboration announced on May 21, 2026. Safeguard's platform powers TechD's Provenance AI, which TechD delivers across India and the Middle East. Read the press release: https://lnkd.in/gsuniQWB

Torq acquired Jit on 19 May 2026. None of the coverage we read says what happens to the standalone Jit product, its contracts or its support. That is a gap, not a verdict. Our guide for AppSec and DevSecOps buyers sets out the dated timeline, what Jit built, four reasonable stances, questions to put to Jit and Torq in writing, and a 30 day checklist. Facts come from public sources, and it says where one could not be read directly. Our own sections are a vendor's sections: test them on your code. The guide: https://lnkd.in/gpErBRnk #DevSecOps #AppSec #SupplyChainSecurity