Securing containers and artifacts
Containers play a pivotal role in modern software development, offering portability and consistency across environments. However, they also present security challenges. Developers often struggle with verifying the origin of container images and detecting potential tampering, while unknowingly using packages and images with known vulnerabilities. For example, a GitGuardian study found that approximately 7% of the images hosted on Docker exposed leaked secrets, which could potentially serve as backdoors for attackers to gain unauthorized access.3
To mitigate these risks, teams should implement container security scanning to detect vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and hardcoded secrets before they get into the production environment, but also for build images that are used only in the pipelines. To secure containers and mitigate the supply chain risks of a malicious actor...
