When security teams scan their container environments for the first
time, they often discover hundreds of known vulnerabilities, and
almost none of them trace back to application code. The
overwhelming majority come from packages that shipped with the base
image:shells, compilers, debug utilities, and libraries the
application never calls.In a software supply chain built on
containers, the base image is the foundation.If that foundation
ships with unnecessary components, every workload built on top of
it inherits the risk. Hardened images address this problem
When security teams scan their container environments for the first
time, they often discover hundreds of known vulnerabilities, and
almost none of them trace back to application code. The
overwhelming majority come from packages that shipped with the base
image:shells, compilers, debug utilities, and libraries the
application never calls.In a software supply chain built on
containers, the base image is the foundation.If that foundation
ships with unnecessary components, every workload built on top of
it inherits the risk. Hardened images address this problem