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

284 articles

Container Security

Hardening Amazon EKS clusters against common attack paths

A step-by-step guide to EKS security best practices: lock down IAM, enforce pod security standards, segment networks, and verify every control.

Jan 20, 20268 min read
Container Security

Signing container images with AWS Signer for supply chain...

A practical walkthrough for signing container images with AWS Signer, verifying them in ECR and EKS, and closing supply chain gaps with cryptographic trust.

Jan 20, 20268 min read
Container Security

Distroless vs. Chainguard vs. Wolfi: Real Differences

A working engineer's comparison of Google Distroless, Chainguard Images, and Wolfi as base images, covering what actually breaks in production and what does not.

Jan 19, 20266 min read
Container Security

Continuous container vulnerability scanning with Amazon I...

How Amazon Inspector's continuous container scanning actually works, where Inspector vs Trivy differs, and the ECR blind spots teams need to cover.

Jan 19, 20267 min read
Container Security

Docker Desktop WSL2 Security Changes in 2022

Docker Desktop's WSL2 backend reshaped container security on Windows. Here is what changed in 2022 and the defects that forced those changes.

Jan 18, 20266 min read
Container Security

Podman vs Docker Security: What Actually Changes When You Drop the Daemon

Podman is daemonless, rootless by default, and fork-exec instead of client-server. Here is what those architectural differences mean for container security in practice.

Jan 18, 20267 min read
Container Security

Runtime vs Static Container Analysis: Complementary, Not Competing

Static scanning finds known vulnerabilities. Runtime analysis finds actual exploitation. Using only one gives you half the picture.

Jan 18, 20266 min read
Container Security

Detecting malware and runtime threats in ECR and EKS with...

How GuardDuty ECR malware protection and EKS runtime monitoring catch cryptominers and malicious images, where the coverage gaps are, and how Safeguard closes them.

Jan 18, 20267 min read
Container Security

Container Image Signing with Cosign: A Practical Deep Dive

Cosign makes signing and verifying container images straightforward. Here's everything you need to know to implement it in your pipeline.

Jan 17, 20266 min read
Container Security

Scanning Azure Container Registry images for vulnerabilities

A step-by-step guide to enabling Azure Container Registry vulnerability scanning with Microsoft Defender for Containers, plus troubleshooting and gating deployments on scan results.

Jan 17, 20268 min read
Container Security

How Microsoft Defender for Containers protects AKS and AC...

Defender for Containers scans ACR images and monitors AKS clusters in real time — but it can't see what happens before a build reaches the registry. Here's what it covers and what it misses.

Jan 15, 20267 min read
Container Security

Kubernetes Admission Controllers for Supply Chain Policy

Admission controllers are the only Kubernetes enforcement point that sees every workload before it runs. That makes them the right place to enforce image provenance, signing, and SBOM policies.

Jan 15, 20266 min read

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