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In-depth guides and analysis on container security from the Safeguard engineering team.

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Container Security

What is Helm Chart Security

Helm chart security means finding and fixing the RBAC, secrets, and supply chain risks baked into Kubernetes' most-used packaging format.

Mar 17, 20267 min read
Container Security

How to Choose a Secure Base Image

Base image choice sets your CVE floor before any scanner runs. Here's how to evaluate footprint, patch cadence, provenance, and rebuild cycle.

Mar 16, 20268 min read
Container Security

Kata Containers Security Model Review

Kata wraps each pod in a lightweight VM. That is a real security boundary. It is also one that comes with real costs and real caveats.

Mar 15, 20266 min read
Container Security

Chiseled / Distroless Image Rollout Program

What it takes to standardise on chiseled and distroless container images across an engineering organisation: which workloads benefit, which do not, and how to handle the operational quirks of imageless containers.

Mar 14, 20267 min read
Container Security

GCP Binary Authorization Policy Patterns

Policy design patterns for GCP Binary Authorization that hold up in production: attestor topology, exception handling, continuous validation, and the shapes that stop a deploy-time compromise without blocking legitimate rollouts.

Mar 11, 20267 min read
Container Security

Kubernetes 1.30 and 1.31 Security Rundown

ValidatingAdmissionPolicy GA, VolumeSource for OCI artifacts, and anonymous API cleanup: what 1.30 and 1.31 change for cluster security posture.

Mar 10, 20265 min read
Container Security

Kubernetes Service Mesh Policy Depth

Service meshes promise layered policy. The promise is real, but the layers only help if you use them, and most deployments use one.

Mar 10, 20267 min read
Container Security

Service Mesh Supply Chain Policy 2026

Service meshes are a control plane and a data plane and a supply chain risk surface all at once. This post covers the policy controls that matter in 2026 for sidecars, control planes, and mesh-issued certificates.

Mar 9, 20267 min read
Container Security

CRI-O vs containerd: Security Comparison

Both are CNCF graduated runtimes. Both run production clusters. Their security properties diverge in ways that matter for hardened environments.

Mar 7, 20266 min read
Container Security

Rancher Cluster Security Hardening

Rancher is the distribution that runs when your Kubernetes is neither EKS nor OpenShift. Hardening it well is specific work.

Mar 5, 20267 min read
Container Security

Azure Container Registry Trust Model

What Azure Container Registry actually guarantees about the images you pull — signing, attestation, content trust, and where the trust chain breaks in practice.

Mar 5, 20267 min read
Container Security

AWS ECR Image Signing in Production

Image signing in ECR has moved from nice-to-have to table stakes. Here is what it actually takes to run cosign and AWS Signer in production without breaking every deploy.

Mar 4, 20267 min read

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