Insights & Analysis

Expert perspectives on application security, compliance, and emerging threats

All Teams15 Security Engineers142 Compliance Teams99 Developers27 DevOps Leaders15 CISOs6 IT Directors2

Topics:All15 Incident142 Standards81 General33 Guides15 Research12 Vendor News4 Deadlines2 Legal2

15 articles in Guides · Clear filtersSort byNewest·Trending

Should Your Security Framework Treat AI Agents Like Users or Like Code?

Guides

Latest

4 min read

Should Your Security Framework Treat AI Agents Like Users or Like Code?

The CISA guide on agentic AI security highlights a critical debate for security engineers: should autonomous AI systems be treated as privileged users needing identity controls, or as application comp

For Security EngineersRead article

Short-Lived Credentials Won't Save You From Your Real Problem

Guides

4 min read

Short-Lived Credentials Won't Save You From Your Real Problem

The Conventional Wisdom Your security team may believe that short-lived credentials are the ultimate solution to credential sprawl. The logic seems solid: a static API key valid for 90 days creates 7,

For Security EngineersRead

"We just added MCP to our agent—how worried should we be?"

Guides

4 min read

"We just added MCP to our agent—how worried should we be?"

Context: Questions from teams deploying AI agents Security channels have been inundated with questions after OX Security disclosed vulnerabilities in the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Over 30 remote c

For Security EngineersRead

SBOMs Won't Save You From Supply Chain Risk

Guides

4 min read

SBOMs Won't Save You From Supply Chain Risk

The Conventional Wisdom Your compliance team might believe that supply chain security is addressed by generating Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs). Create an SBOM for every release, submit it to the

For Compliance TeamsRead

Newsletter

Stay Ahead of Threats

Get weekly security insights and compliance updates delivered to your inbox.

Subscribe Now

Guides

"Our dependency got compromised—what do we actually do?"

Understanding the Problem In recent weeks, I ve been involved in several incident channels where teams discovered issues in their software supply chain. One team found API keys in a contractor s publi

For Compliance TeamsRead

Should AI Agents Get Admin Access? The Debate Over Least Privilege for Autonomous Systems

Guides

4 min read

Should AI Agents Get Admin Access? The Debate Over Least Privilege for Autonomous Systems

The Question at Hand Your security team has just deployed an AI agent to automate cloud resource optimization. It s quickly scanning your entire AWS environment, analyzing usage patterns, and recommen

For Compliance TeamsRead

Open-Source Disaster Recovery Tools Won't Save You (Unless You Avoid These 5 Mistakes)

Guides

6 min read

Open-Source Disaster Recovery Tools Won't Save You (Unless You Avoid These 5 Mistakes)

Your compliance manager asks about your disaster recovery plan. You point to Clonezilla running on a schedule, creating system images of your production Linux servers. You ve checked the backup strate

For IT DirectorsRead

Developer Security Intelligence Configuration Template

Guides

4 min read

Developer Security Intelligence Configuration Template

Security teams invest significant time building threat intelligence feeds, vulnerability scanners, and policy engines, only to see developers overlook them due to separate dashboards and context-switc

For Security EngineersRead

Open Source Security Collaboration: The Mistakes That Keep Your Team Isolated

Guides

6 min read

Open Source Security Collaboration: The Mistakes That Keep Your Team Isolated

Your team treats open source security as a solo operation. You patch your dependencies, run your scanners, and file your tickets. But when a vulnerability hits your stack, you re scrambling to underst

For Compliance TeamsRead

AI Code Generators Don't Write Insecure Code (And Other Dangerous Myths)

Guides

3 min read

AI Code Generators Don't Write Insecure Code (And Other Dangerous Myths)

Your team may have adopted tools like GitHub Copilot or Claude to accelerate development. While management appreciates the increased productivity, and developers enjoy bypassing repetitive tasks, secu

For Security EngineersRead

CRA Compliance Workflow Template: From Requirements to Remediation

Guides

6 min read

CRA Compliance Workflow Template: From Requirements to Remediation

The EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is now a concrete reality. Your organization needs clear processes to translate these regulatory obligations into actionable engineering tasks. This template provides

For Compliance TeamsRead

Guides

5 min read

The OpenSSF Badge Won't Save Your Project: 5 Myths Blocking Real Security Progress

Your open source project finally earned the OpenSSF Baseline Badge. You added it to your README, announced it on social media, and moved on. Three months later, a critical vulnerability in your depend

For Compliance TeamsRead

Implementing OAuth 2.0 Authorization Code Flow: A Start-to-Finish Playbook

Guides

4 min read

Implementing OAuth 2.0 Authorization Code Flow: A Start-to-Finish Playbook

Why This Matters Your application needs to integrate with third-party services like Google Workspace, Salesforce, and GitHub without collecting and storing user passwords. You ve heard just use OAuth,

For Compliance TeamsRead

Should You Rely on Your Scanner to Catch the Next Critical Framework Bug?

Guides

5 min read

Should You Rely on Your Scanner to Catch the Next Critical Framework Bug?

The Question at Hand React2Shell landed with two CVEs (CVE-2025-55182 and CVE-2025-66478), both scoring a perfect 10.0 on CVSS. Within days, PortSwigger added detection capabilities into Burp Suite s

For Security EngineersRead

Embedding Security Remediation in Your IDE: A Cost-Reduction Implementation Guide

Guides

4 min read

Embedding Security Remediation in Your IDE: A Cost-Reduction Implementation Guide

Your security team finds vulnerabilities. Developers fix them three sprints later. Finance sees security tooling as pure overhead. This cycle burns budget and slows delivery. The solution is not anoth

For Compliance TeamsRead