Container Vulnerability Management Best Practices Cheat Sheet

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Containers move fast. They’re created and removed in seconds, but the vulnerabilities they introduce can stick around.

This cheat sheet shares five core practices to help engineering and security teams manage container risk at scale. It’s designed to reduce noise, focus on real threats, and automate the hard stuff.

Inside, you’ll learn:

  • How to harden base images and generate SBOMs

  • Where to embed scanning in your CI/CD pipelines

  • How to identify the CVEs that actually matter using runtime context

  • What to watch for with drift and active exploit detection

  • Steps to automate patching and streamline redeployments