Minimal Base Images for Security: A Practical Guide
Minimal base images cut CVE counts by up to 95% by shipping only what your app needs. Here is how to choose between distroless, Wolfi, Alpine, and scratch — and build on each safely.
Deep dives, practical guides, and incident analyses from engineers who build Safeguard. No fluff, no vendor FUD — just what you need to ship secure software.
Minimal base images cut CVE counts by up to 95% by shipping only what your app needs. Here is how to choose between distroless, Wolfi, Alpine, and scratch — and build on each safely.
A volunteer handed control of a hugely popular npm package to a stranger, who used it to target one Bitcoin wallet app. The event-stream incident is the case study in maintainer-handoff risk.
A cross-cloud guide to hardening managed Kubernetes — the shared responsibility line, cloud IAM-to-pod integration, network policy, Pod Security Standards, and node hardening across EKS, AKS, and GKE.
Your JVM supply chain spans repositories, build tools, plugins, and artifacts. Here's how to secure each link — from dependency confusion to artifact signing.
CVE-2024-23897 turned a convenience feature in Jenkins' CLI argument parser into an arbitrary file read that can escalate to full RCE. Here's the mechanism and the fix.
npm audit tells you a CVE exists somewhere in your tree — not whether it can hurt you. Here is how dependency scanning really works, why reachability changes everything, and how to build a signal-rich program.
When running infrastructure diverges from your Terraform, your security scans start auditing a fiction. Here's how to detect, understand, and reconcile configuration drift.
A container image tag proves nothing about who built the image or whether it was tampered with. Cosign and Sigstore fix that with cryptographic signatures and a public transparency log — here is how to sign, verify, and enforce.
Define a written, version-controlled policy for which vulnerabilities block a release, enforce it consistently across CLI and CI, and manage time-boxed exceptions without an allowlist that lives forever.
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