Building a secure base and compiling from source form the foundation of container security. But DevSecOps teams face a bigger challenge: proving that images remain secure and compliant over time.
Manual patching, dependency auditing, and compliance verification turn yesterday’s secure container into today’s liability. Your team needs automation.
In this blog, we’ll highlight how ActiveState Secure Containers provide a blueprint for DevSecOps teams to achieve ongoing container security.
Zero-CVE Testing and VEX Advisories
ActiveState Secure Containers pass through rigorous automated testing before distribution. The standard is simple: zero effective CVEs. Multiple SCA tools scan for vulnerabilities and verify hardening scores during pre-release testing. Continuous monitoring follows:
False Positives: When a CVE shows no exploitability or impact within the minimized container, we mark it as “not affected.”
VEX Advisories: ActiveState issues a Vulnerability Exploitability eXchange (VEX) document for all cases. Your team filters out scanner noise, focuses on genuine threats, and eliminates hours of manual triage work.
Continuous Security Through Managed Maintenance
ActiveState shifts the maintenance burden from your team to our managed service. We keep images secure and compliant without interrupting your workflow.
Nightly Rebuilds: We automatically rebuild every ActiveState container nightly from verified source components. Your images incorporate the latest security patches and updates without manual intervention.
Strict Remediation SLAs: Service-level agreements guarantee 5 days for Critical CVEs, 10 days for highs, and 30 days for all others. We handle the highest-priority, time-sensitive security work for you.
Verifiable Provenance for Audit Confidence
To support continuous compliance, every image ships with verifiable proof of its integrity.
Detailed SBOMs: Comprehensive Software Bills of Materials give you total, auditable visibility into all components, licenses, and security status.
Cryptographic Signing: We cryptographically sign images upon distribution, guaranteeing the image you pull remains untampered.
Close the Loop on Container Security
ActiveState frees your technical team to focus on product development instead of manual security maintenance. We automate the entire container building and maintenance lifecycle, keeping your managed service secure, compliant, and deployment-ready.
Why Choose ActiveState?
ActiveState manages the full, continuous lifecycle of your secure containers:
We save your team massive amounts of time and eliminate manual security overhead.
We provide the industry’s most rigorous maintenance standard, backed by nightly rebuilds and strict SLAs.
We ensure SLSA-3 compliant provenance and guarantee audit readiness.
This comprehensive, managed process protects you against the hundreds of millions of dollars in fines associated with breaches in regulated sectors.
Download the ActiveState Container Hardening Guide to see the whole end-to-end workflow in detail.
