Container hardening isn't a substitute for artifact management

Hardened base images are a great secure foundation. They're minimal, security-vetted, and have few dependencies to worry about. But almost nobody ships a bare base image. Teams build on top of it.

This video cover whys that "on top of it" layer is where the risk actually lives:

• A hardened base image doesn't know what's in the dependency tree your team builds on top of it, and that tree can be unknown or insecure
• The dependency tree is the layer artifact management is built for: the knowledge and automation to catch and handle vulnerabilities introduced above the base image
• It's not a choice between the two: hardened images and an artifact management platform solve different problems and complement each other

Skip the base image hardening and you're building on a shaky foundation. Skip artifact management and you're leaving everything built on top of that foundation ungoverned. A strong posture uses both.

See how Cloudsmith governs what gets built on top of your base images: https://cloudsmith.com

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