Running hardened images in Prod: beyond CVE counts

Running hardened images in production requires more than adopting a secure baseline. To sustain a near-zero CVE posture, teams need repeatable, scalable, and verifiable ways to respond to vulnerabilities and adapt images so they fit real production environments.

In this session, we will show how teams move from evaluating hardened images to running them in production at scale. You will see how Docker Hardened Images function as a secure upstream, and what DHI Enterprise adds when teams need continuous patching, compliance coverage, and the ability to make hardened images truly their own – all without rebuilding security from scratch.

We will walk through real production workflows covering how to roll out hardened images without breaking builds, verify provenance and SBOMs in CI/CD, and operationalize patching and customization so teams can ship faster without compromising security.