Securing your software supply chain with Docker Scout
When container images are insecure, significant risks can arise. Around 60% of organizations have reported experiencing at least one security breach or vulnerability incident within a year, resulting in operational disruption.1 These incidents often result in considerable downtime, with 44% of affected companies experiencing over an hour of downtime per event. The financial impact is substantial, with the average data breach cost reaching $4.45 million.2 This highlights the critical importance of maintaining robust container security measures.
Docker Scout enhances container security by providing automated vulnerability detection and remediation, addressing insecure container images, and ensuring compliance with security standards.
What you'll learn
- Define secure software supply chain (SSSC)
- Review SBOMs and how to use them
- Detect and monitor vulnerabilities
Tools integration
Works well with Docker Desktop, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Kubernetes, and other CI solutions.
Who’s this for?
- DevOps engineers who need to integrate automated security checks into CI/CD pipelines to enhance the security and efficiency of their workflows.
- Developers who want to use Docker Scout to identify and remediate vulnerabilities early in the development process, ensuring the production of secure container images.
- Security professionals who must enforce security compliance, conduct vulnerability assessments, and ensure the overall security of containerized applications.
Modules
Organizations face significant challenges from data breaches, including financial losses, operational disruptions, and long-term damage to brand reputation and customer trust. Docker Scout addresses critical problems such as identifying insecure container images, preventing security breaches, and reducing the risk of operational downtime due to vulnerabilities.
Docker Scout provides several benefits:
- Secure and trusted content
- A system of record for your Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
- Continuous security posture improvement
Docker Scout offers automated vulnerability detection and remediation, helping organizations identify and fix security issues in container images early in the development process. It also integrates with popular development tools like Docker Desktop and GitHub Actions, providing seamless security management and compliance checks within existing workflows.
Duration: 5 minutes
Docker Scout has powerful features for enhancing containerized application security and ensuring a robust software supply chain.
- Define vulnerability remediation
- Discuss why remediation is essential to maintain the security and integrity of containerized applications
- Discuss common vulnerabilities
- Implement remediation techniques: updating base images, applying patches, removing unnecessary packages
- Verify and validate remediation efforts using Docker Scout
Duration: 5 minutes
How is Docker Scout different from other security tools?
Docker Scout takes a broader approach to container security compared to third-party security tools. Third-party security tools, if they offer remediation guidance at all, miss the mark on their limited scope of application security posture within the software supply chain, and often limited guidance when it comes to suggested fixes. Such tools have either limitations on runtime monitoring or no runtime protection at all. When they do offer runtime monitoring, it’s limited in its adherence to key policies. Third-party security tools offer a limited scope of policy evaluation for Docker-specific builds. By focusing on the entire software supply chain, providing actionable guidance, and offering comprehensive runtime protection with strong policy enforcement, Docker Scout goes beyond just identifying vulnerabilities in your containers. It helps you build secure applications from the ground up.
Can I use Docker Scout with external registries other than Docker Hub?
You can use Scout with registries other than Docker Hub. Integrating Docker Scout with third-party container registries enables Docker Scout to run image analysis on those repositories so that you can get insights into the composition of those images even if they aren't hosted on Docker Hub.
The following container registry integrations are available:
- Artifactory
- Amazon Elastic Container Registry
- Azure Container Registry
Learn more about configuring Scout with your registries in Integrating Docker Scout with third-party registries.
Does Docker Scout CLI come by default with Docker Desktop?
Yes, the Docker Scout CLI plugin comes pre-installed with Docker Desktop.
Is it possible to run docker scout commands on a Linux system without Docker Desktop?
If you run Docker Engine without Docker Desktop, Docker Scout doesn't come pre-installed, but you can install it as a standalone binary.
How is Docker Scout using an SBOM?
An SBOM, or software bill of materials, is a list of ingredients that make up software components. Docker Scout uses SBOMs to determine the components that are used in a Docker image. When you analyze an image, Docker Scout will either use the SBOM that is attached to the image (as an attestation), or generate an SBOM on the fly by analyzing the contents of the image.
The SBOM is cross-referenced with the advisory database to determine if any of the components in the image have known vulnerabilities.
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