Which Container Image Security tool is the best in the current market?
Hello community,
I am currently researching Container Security tools. Which Container Image Security tool is the best in the current market? What features make it the best?
The answer will depend on your needs and scope. This area of security is one of the first in the overall shift left motion. This is about CI/CD security. For the bare minimum, I would look for image and registry scanning capabilities that most vendors and open source tools can provide today. You need to make sure that your particular registry is supported. You will want easy registry onboarding and automated scanning. Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks does this very well. In addition to the vulnerability report, there are a number of compliance checks that will be flagged by Prisma Cloud registry scanning capability, i.e. Image should be created with a non-root user, private keys stored in the image, etc. In addition, each hit (CVE) includes data about its risk factors, severity, CVSS, impacted packages, and impacted resources as well as the likelihood of exploitability such as denial of service attacks.
For better security, I would look at Trusted Images capability. Trusted Images is a security control that lets you declare, by policy, which registries, repositories, and images you trust, and how to respond when untrusted images are started in your environment. Image provenance is a core security concern. In NIST SP 800-190 (Application Container Security Guide) - which I wholeheartedly suggest reading - the section on countermeasures for major risks (Section 4) says: "Organizations should maintain a set of trusted images and registries and ensure that only images from this set are allowed to run in their environment, thus mitigating the risk of untrusted or malicious components being deployed."
For the best security, I would suggest you look for Image Analysis Sandbox capabilities. Sometimes, vulnerabilities are not known and can be disguised as malware. Embedded in images, lurking as benign pieces of software, you would only know their true purpose once that image hits production as a container, and then that piece of code would execute and start downloading malware or doing something other nefarious. To prevent this from happening the image analysis sandbox lets you dynamically analyze the runtime behavior of images before running them in your development and production environments.
Great question, Susanta - best of luck in your due diligence!
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Hi Susanta, it is difficult to determine which tool is the best since it depends on the specific security needs, the existing infrastructure, and other factors unique to your organization.
On PeerSpot, the top-ranked products are: Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, Snyk, Lacework, Aqua Security and NGINX App Protect
Container Security solutions safeguard containerized applications from threats throughout their lifecycle, covering image scanning, runtime protection, compliance assurance, access control, and integration with CI/CD pipelines.
Hello Susanta,
The answer will depend on your needs and scope. This area of security is one of the first in the overall shift left motion. This is about CI/CD security. For the bare minimum, I would look for image and registry scanning capabilities that most vendors and open source tools can provide today. You need to make sure that your particular registry is supported. You will want easy registry onboarding and automated scanning. Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks does this very well. In addition to the vulnerability report, there are a number of compliance checks that will be flagged by Prisma Cloud registry scanning capability, i.e. Image should be created with a non-root user, private keys stored in the image, etc. In addition, each hit (CVE) includes data about its risk factors, severity, CVSS, impacted packages, and impacted resources as well as the likelihood of exploitability such as denial of service attacks.
For better security, I would look at Trusted Images capability. Trusted Images is a security control that lets you declare, by policy, which registries, repositories, and images you trust, and how to respond when untrusted images are started in your environment. Image provenance is a core security concern. In NIST SP 800-190 (Application Container Security Guide) - which I wholeheartedly suggest reading - the section on countermeasures for major risks (Section 4) says: "Organizations should maintain a set of trusted images and registries and ensure that only images from this set are allowed to run in their environment, thus mitigating the risk of untrusted or malicious components being deployed."
For the best security, I would suggest you look for Image Analysis Sandbox capabilities. Sometimes, vulnerabilities are not known and can be disguised as malware. Embedded in images, lurking as benign pieces of software, you would only know their true purpose once that image hits production as a container, and then that piece of code would execute and start downloading malware or doing something other nefarious. To prevent this from happening the image analysis sandbox lets you dynamically analyze the runtime behavior of images before running them in your development and production environments.
Great question, Susanta - best of luck in your due diligence!
Hi Susanta, it is difficult to determine which tool is the best since it depends on the specific security needs, the existing infrastructure, and other factors unique to your organization.
On PeerSpot, the top-ranked products are: Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, Snyk, Lacework, Aqua Security and NGINX App Protect
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