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Wiz now integrates seamlessly with Minimus to provide organizations full visibility into their secured and minimal container base images. Through this integration, Wiz automatically identifies container images built on Minimus’s hardened Linux distributions, ensuring security teams have accurate context on these images in vulnerability management workflows.

Market challenge

As organizations adopt minimal and secured base images to reduce their attack surface, security tools often fail to accurately identify and classify these specialized images. This missing context can result in  unnecessary remediation work for teams. With threats increasingly targeting the software supply chain, it is critical to identify images that come from trusted sources and incorporate trust context into your container security program for more accurate risk assessment and prioritization.  

The better together story 

Together, Wiz and Minimus solve a key challenge in container security. Minimus provides hardened and minimal base images designed to reduce vulnerabilities, while Wiz ensures these images are correctly identified, analyzed, and surfaced within security workflows. This empowers security and DevOps teams to prioritize real risks and avoid wasted effort on images already secured by design.

Benefits of the integration

• Accurate identification of Minimus base images
  Wiz recognizes Minimus’s minimal and secured images in vulnerability management workflows.

• Reduced false positives
  By correctly classifying Minimus images, Wiz reduces noise, helping teams focus on actionable findings.

• Improved security posture visibility
  Organizations gain full visibility into where Minimus images are deployed and how they contribute to reducing overall risk.

• Enhanced remediation efficiency
  Avoid unnecessary remediation tasks for base images that are already hardened and compliant with security best practices.

Use case overview, challenge and solution

Security and DevOps teams using Minimus hardened base images often face challenges when their security platforms misclassify these images, creating unnecessary vulnerabilities or lacking accurate context. With this integration, Wiz automatically detects Minimus images, identifies them as secured and minimal, and reflects this context in vulnerability findings and reporting. This ensures teams have an accurate view of their environment, prioritize the right risks, and maintain compliance without added toil.