Expert perspectives on application security, compliance, and emerging threats
GeneralThe myths around federal software supply chain security persist because they re comfortable. They let you treat authorization as a one-time event, vulnerabilities as a scoring exercise, and compliance
ResearchYour organization now requires a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) for every release, and your CI/CD pipeline generates them automatically. However, a recent study of 25,882 Java SBOMs revealed that 7
StandardsThe Challenge A consortium of financial institutions participating in the UK-US PETs Prize Challenges faced a significant issue: how to train a shared fraud detection model across vertically partition
StandardsThe Challenge OpenClaw s developers faced a common problem: enabling a browser-based interface to communicate seamlessly with a locally-running AI agent. Their solution was to use WebSockets for a dir
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GuidesYour 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
StandardsNIST is establishing a dedicated program for AI cybersecurity and privacy. For your compliance team, this raises a critical question: should you adopt the AI Risk Management Framework now, or continue
GeneralScope - What This Guide Covers This guide focuses on verification frameworks for AI-generated code in production environments. You ll find specific controls for validating outputs from large language
GeneralYour team asks an AI assistant about a critical security patch. The model responds confidently, citing a fix that shipped three months ago. One problem: that patch was deprecated two weeks later due t
ResearchThe Challenge The European Union s draft of the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) initially treated open source software like commercial products, imposing liability on community maintainers—volunteers often
StandardsSocket disclosed the SANDWORM_MODE campaign this week: at least 19 malicious npm packages designed to harvest credentials, cryptocurrency keys, and API tokens from developer environments. The attack i
IncidentWhat Happened A threat actor compromised the Cline CLI package on npm and modified it to silently install OpenClaw—an AI coding agent—on developer machines without consent. The malicious version was l
GeneralYour security team is about to add a new specialization. Not because of a compliance mandate or a framework update—because AI systems break every assumption traditional security roles are built on. At
StandardsThe Challenge Your compliance team faces a recurring problem: Python developers move fast, while security teams move carefully, creating a risk gap. When uv emerged as a high-performance Python packag
GuidesWhy 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,
IncidentWhat Happened Your development team deployed an internal LLM service with an exposed API endpoint for rapid prototyping. The endpoint used a hardcoded API key with broad permissions to access the orga
IncidentOn a Tuesday morning, developers running npm update unknowingly downloaded [email protected] — an unauthorized release published without human approval. The package remained live for eight hours, during whi
