Near-zero-CVE container images and automated software attack surface reduction

RapidFort is a software supply chain security platform that reduces the attack surface of container workloads by removing unused packages, binaries, and libraries that ship inside standard base images. The platform spans three products: RF Analyzer scans containers across CI/CD pipelines, registries, and Kubernetes clusters to identify CVEs and suppress vulnerability noise; RF Optimizer automatically hardens images by stripping unused components, cutting attack surface by 60-90%; and RF Profiler captures runtime behavior to confirm which code paths actually execute in production, enabling safe removal of the rest.

RapidFort maintains a curated catalog of more than 25,000 near-zero-CVE container images built on Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Debian, and Alpine, giving teams a drop-in replacement for unhardened public images. Published metrics include 82 million packages secured, 124 million vulnerabilities removed, and more than one million images hardened across the customer base, with the platform claiming to eliminate up to 99.9% of CVEs automatically without application code changes. The company targets enterprises and federal programs requiring FedRAMP, CMMC, SOC 2, CIS benchmark, and DISA STIG compliance, positioning hardened containers as a single control that simultaneously improves security posture, reduces patching toil, and accelerates release cadence.