RapidFort Secures Containers by Shrinking Their Attack Surface
RapidFort is an open-source platform and GitHub project that automatically hardens container images by profiling their actual use, stripping out unused components, and eliminating the majority of vulnerabilities. By using coverage scripts or runtime profiling, it identifies exactly which parts of a container are necessary and safely removes the rest. This approach can reduce attack surfaces by 60–90% and automatically remediate up to 95% of common vulnerabilities without requiring code changes. RapidFort provides a catalog of pre-hardened images for popular platforms like PostgreSQL, Redis, NGINX, MongoDB, and more, all updated weekly. Developers and security teams benefit from faster, leaner, more secure workloads, reduced patching burden, and improved compliance—especially useful for cloud and DevSecOps pipelines. The project fosters community involvement by offering free hardened images, encouraging contributions, and supporting CI/CD integration to ensure safer container deployments at scale
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