Image Scanning
Image scanning is the automated process of analyzing a container image's layers, installed packages, and dependencies to detect known security vulnerabilities (CVEs), misconfigurations, embedded secrets, or license issues before the image is deployed.
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Glossary Terms(6)
Golden Image
A golden image is a pre-configured, versioned, and tested machine image or container base image — with the OS, security patches, agents, and baseline software…
Policy as Code
Policy as Code is the practice of expressing organizational, security, and compliance rules as machine-readable code — rather than as prose documents — so that…
Open Policy Agent
Open Policy Agent (OPA) is an open-source, general-purpose policy engine that lets organizations define and enforce fine-grained authorization and compliance r…
Container Registry
A container registry is a storage and distribution system for container images, letting teams push built images, version and tag them, and pull them for deploy…
Image Scanning
Image scanning is the automated process of analyzing a container image's layers, installed packages, and dependencies to detect known security vulnerabilities…
Runtime Security
Runtime security is the practice of monitoring, detecting, and responding to threats and anomalous behavior in applications and infrastructure while they are a…
Interview Questions(3)
What is Docker Image Security Scanning and Why Does It Matter?
Docker image security scanning inspects the layers of a built image against known vulnerability databases (CVEs) to catch outdated packages, exposed secrets, a…
What Are the Key Principles of Container Security?
Container security means hardening every layer of the container lifecycle — the base image, the build process, the runtime configuration, and the host kernel —…
How Does Container Image Vulnerability Scanning Work?
Container image vulnerability scanning inspects every layer of a built image — the OS packages, language dependencies, and binaries — against databases of know…