Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

The way businesses build and deliver software has changed dramatically over the past decade. Gone are the days when development teams would work in isolation for months before handing off a product to operations staff for deployment. Today's competitive market demands speed, reliability, and continuous improvement - and that is exactly what DevOps services are designed to deliver.

As the adoption of containers grows across Cloud infrastructure, Cybersecurity experts and DevSecOps leaders continue to deal with the persistent surge of publicly available software vulnerabilities. The National Vulnerability Database documented an alarming figure of 29,000 CVEs for 2023, and the numbers since then show no signs of slowing down. Research shows that the majority of production container images have known vulnerabilities. This article explores the relationship between container images and CVE vulnerabilities (exposure), the growing burden of compliance, and the target risk reduction of minimal-image strategies.