Frameworks, analysis, and guidance across TPRM, supply chain risk, and vendor governance.
Ratings & Risk TieringScope - What This Guide Covers This guide tackles the challenge of keeping vendor risk profiles accurate when risk factors change faster than your assessment cycle. It s aimed at analysts responsible
Incident ManagementWhen ZBT routers, sold globally as white-label products, were found to contain manufacturer-implanted backdoors, it exposed a critical gap in hardware procurement controls. These routers reached organ
Software Supply Chain SecurityWhen your team runs pip install , you re not just downloading a library. You re allowing arbitrary code to execute on your infrastructure, often with the same privileges as your build pipeline or prod
Software Supply Chain SecurityYour GitHub Actions workflows look clean. Dependencies are listed. Secrets are stored in the vault. So why are supply chain attacks still slipping through? Most teams secure the obvious attack vectors
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Software Supply Chain SecurityImagine you re compiling a Rust project, and hidden in the build process, a backdoor is executing. The source code appears clean, and your lockfile lists legitimate packages. Yet, a typosquatted depen
Incident ManagementWhen Ceva Logistics confirmed a breach affecting eight European warehouses between July 29 and August 1, it exposed more than customer data. It revealed a widespread misunderstanding of logistics prov
Incident ManagementThe Conventional Wisdom When ransomware attacks surge, the industry response is predictable: patch faster, monitor harder, train users better. Black Kite s report showing a 55.1% year-over-year increa
Software Supply Chain SecurityYou write flask =2.0 in requirements.txt. Today pip installs Flask 3.1.0 and everything works. Tomorrow an attacker publishes a compromised 3.1.1. Your next build silently downloads malware because it
Software Supply Chain SecurityYour CI/CD pipeline relies on trust. Each time a workflow runs, it pulls actions by tags like v1.29.5 , v5 , or latest . These tags point to code that might change between runs. A compromised maintain
Software Supply Chain SecurityQuestions from the Front Lines After the Laravel-lang and Intercom compromises hit Packagist in April and May 2025, procurement Slack channels and TPRM team meetings buzzed with questions. These attac
Software Supply Chain SecurityIf GitHub Actions were fully compromised tomorrow, would your publishing pipeline survive? That s the threat model behind nuqs s staged publishing implementation. With over 3 million weekly downloads,
Software Supply Chain SecurityYou vet dependencies, scan containers, and review vendor source code access controls. But when a vendor hands you a repository or package, do you check the config files for shell commands? Most TPRM w
Software Supply Chain SecurityAn autonomous agent executed 17,000 actions over several days inside Hugging Face s production infrastructure. Another operation deployed 600 distinct payloads in a short timeframe, adapting when step
Incident ManagementThe Challenge On June 8, 2017, UpGuard s Cyber Risk Team discovered a publicly accessible Amazon Web Services S3 bucket containing Verizon customer data, names, addresses, account details, and account
Regulatory FrameworksThe Pentagon s suspension of CMMC Phase II requirements on July 13 doesn t mean your cybersecurity efforts should pause. Instead, you have 60 days to strengthen your security posture before the CMMC R
Foundational ConceptsWhat Changed Your third-party ecosystem is expanding rapidly, and your intake process isn t keeping up. Each time an employee uses an unapproved AI tool, authorizes a browser extension, or connects a
