Container Vulnerability Security Tools

Wiz is the leader in having an all-in-one cloud security platform by expanding into CTEM, ASPM, and Runtime capabilities all within a single dashboard. Their posture and vulnerability capabilities remain the strongest, while there are better standalone code and runtime vendors out there.

Chainguard uses distroless Linux (Wolfi) images that will require a non-trivial instrumentation to ask your devs to stand up. It's a bit like, "compliance hates this one easy trick" - they provide minimal container images to use in your applications, but you'll still need to patch them over time.

Seal backports security patches for open source libraries and container images, allowing you to auto-patch any vulnerabilities without doing major framework updates.

Of the cloud providers, GCP offers the best native tooling to scan and remediate container vulnerabilities. Combined with Google Distroless images, Google offers robust out of the box image protection capabilities for containerized environments.

Minimus’ secure container images reduce vulnerabilities by over 97% compared to typical container images. Images are continuously rebuilt from source, containing only the necessary bits to run the application, radically reducing the attack surface.

Root provides backported patches for major linux distros enabling security teams to remove CVEs without changing their infrastructure. They also provide automatic image updaters, and minimal container images.

Echo provides vulnerability-free container images including automatic patching, hardening, and FIPS-validation. Echo images are built on top of common distributions in order to make integration easier, and recognized by major vulnerability scanners.

Autonomous plane is the new product from the creator of Docker Slim, a fantastic open source project for minimizing your container images.

RapidFort focuses on removing vulnerabilities by creating slimmed down container images for your applications, and scans for vulnerabilities as well.

Docker has quietly built out their container vulnerability scanning to be comparable to other tools in the area. While, at the moment, they lack a full enterprise platform for full tracking across container lifecycles, their scanning built into the Docker Desktop app and CLI options provide much needed visibility into where vulnerabilities are coming from. They've also recently launched their own hardened images.