Container Security
In-depth guides and analysis on container security from the Safeguard engineering team.
284 articles
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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