Software Supply Chain Security in 2026: Pinning, Provenance, Signing, and SBOMs That Get Consumed
A few years ago, “supply chain security” meant checking your Docker base images for critical CVEs and hoping your dependency
Tag: security
Secrets Management Beyond Environment Variables: Vault, SOPS, Sealed Secrets, and Rotation That Works
Every team starts with environment variables because every framework supports them. A DATABASE_URL in a .env file, a compose file
Service-to-Service Authentication in Microservices: mTLS, JWTs, and the Token Exchange Pattern
Getting a request into your system is the easy part. The hard question arrives at hop two: when the order
SSRF Defense in Go: Why URL Validation Fails and How to Fix It at the Dial Layer
Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) keeps topping real-world breach reports for a simple reason: modern applications are glued together with outbound
Continue readingSSRF Defense in Go: Why URL Validation Fails and How to Fix It at the Dial Layer
AI Agents Are Machine Identities: Governing Non-Human Credentials Before They Proliferate
Your microservices fleet has 3,000 machine identities and 300 employees — a 10:1 ratio that is conservative by industry standards,
JWT Security Pitfalls: Algorithm Confusion, Header Injection, and the Claims Everyone Forgets to Check
JWTs are everywhere because they solve an ugly problem: how does a stateless service know who’s calling without a database
gRPC Server Reflection in Production: Gate It, and Use Health Checks Instead
Here is a debugging story that repeats across every gRPC team. A developer runs grpcurl -plaintext localhost:50051 list against a
Continue readinggRPC Server Reflection in Production: Gate It, and Use Health Checks Instead
Defending Against Supply Chain Attacks: An npm and PyPI Defense Playbook
When a popular npm package turns malicious, the window between publication and detection is measured in hours, and the first
Continue readingDefending Against Supply Chain Attacks: An npm and PyPI Defense Playbook
Secrets Management in Practice: From Hardcoded Credentials to Short-Lived Identity
Most breaches involving secrets do not involve sophisticated attacks. They involve a credential that was committed to a git repository
Continue readingSecrets Management in Practice: From Hardcoded Credentials to Short-Lived Identity
SSRF: The Vulnerability That Turns Your Server Against Its Own Network
Your webapp has a feature where users can attach an image by URL. A user submits https://example.com/logo.png and the backend
Continue readingSSRF: The Vulnerability That Turns Your Server Against Its Own Network