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Full-Stack Container Protection

Operationalizing NIST 800-190 for Full-Stack Container Protection

This guide serves as a hands-on companion to the NIST Special Publication 800-190, offering a clear, actionable roadmap for securing containerized environments. It begins by outlining how containerization reshapes modern application development, accelerating delivery while introducing new vulnerabilities that can bypass traditional security tools.

Navigating Container Risks

The challenges according to NIST include critical risks such as:

  • Image Risks: Such as known vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and embedded secrets.
  • Registry Risks: Like insecure user access and stale images.
  • Orchestrator Risks: Including unbounded administrative access and insecure network traffic between containers.
  • Container Risks: Posed by malicious activity, runtime misconfigurations, and image drift leading to rogue containers.
  • Host OS Risks: Stemming from overprovisioned user access and unpatched systems.

This checklist shows how Aqua’s Container Security Platform addresses these challenges with end-to-end protection, mapping platform features directly to NIST guidance, from build to runtime.

 

“Scalable container security requires policy enforcement, continuous monitoring, and strict access controls across registries, orchestrators, and hosts.”

-Derived from cumulative NIST checklist sections 4.1–4.5

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