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The software supply chain, laid out so position means something.

Twenty-five domains, 348 products, laid out in the order the chain runs. Open one to see its controls arranged by the program maturity each demands, how much of the modeled threat it closes, and who actually sells it.

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12Container Security

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Does every production image come from an approved minimal base, carry a signature and SBOM, and get rebuilt when its base is patched?

Color

Who maintains it Licensing Evaluation scores

Who maintains it

Foundation2
Community1
Company21

Open Source

11 here

Free

1 here

Ib166Iron Bank3 capabilities

Freemium

5 here

Commercial

7 here

Minimus

Minimus · Container Security

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CommercialCompany

Minimus builds images from upstream source with only required components, publishing SBOMs and threat intelligence context.

What it does3 capabilities · 2 at full coverage

2 of 3 at full coverage.

Continuous Image Rebuild & Freshness ManagementFullCONTAINER · level 4 · 6 providers
Minimal Hardened Base ImagesFullCONTAINER · level 3 · 14 providers
SBOM GenerationPartialSBOM · level 2 · 28 providers

What it proves18 controls across 10 frameworks

Satisfied through its capabilities, not claimed by the vendor.

CRA3 / 41Annex I Part I (2)(b) Annex I Part I (2)(j) Annex I Part II (1)
SAMM 2.03 / 90I-SB-2-B O-EM-2-A O-EM-3-B
CIS Controls2 / 18CIS 2 CIS 4
CSF 2.02 / 106ID.AM-02 PR.PS-02
S2C2F2 / 25INV-1 REB-3
SSDF 1.12 / 42PS.3.2 PW.9.1
CIS Benchmarks1 / 6CIS Docker Benchmark
DSOMM1 / 19IM-Infrastructure-Hardening
SP 800-204D1 / 11204D-CI-EVIDENCE
Scorecard1 / 20SBOM

What it stops3 techniques · 2 risks

3 techniques countered, 3 of them common

Command and Scripting InterpreterT1059Very Common
Exploitation of Known Vulnerable ComponentVery Common
Escape to HostT1611Common

2 risks reduced

Cannot determine exposure to a compromised componentHigh
Exploitable vulnerabilities in container base imagesHigh

Where it runs2 phases · 1 way to deploy

Capabilities per lifecycle phase

Build3
Operate1

How it is delivered

Container image catalog

What it unlocks5 activities · reaches level 5

Program activities its capabilities support, reaching level 5. Supporting an activity is not completing it.

Level 1

Generate SBOMs for critical releasesLow effort

Level 2

SBOM for every build in SPDX and CycloneDXLow effort

Level 3

Standardize on minimal hardened base imagesMedium effort

Level 4

Image freshness SLOs and malware scanningMedium effort

Level 5

Near-zero known vulnerabilities in production imagesHigh effort

How it holds up

Not assessed yet: no strengths, limits or evaluation scores. 47 of 340 products carry an assessment and 29 are scored.

What it costsPer image or catalog subscription

LicensingPer image or catalog subscription

Priced perimage or catalog per year

BillingSubscription

Scales withNumber of hardened images or catalog tier consumed

Total cost

Compare against engineering time spent triaging and patching base-image CVEs.

What it takes to run

No staffing, rollout time or operational commitment recorded.

What it works with

No supported language, standard, integration or named feature recorded.

What else to look at1 alternative

Open-source alternatives

Echo Container ImagesCommercial

What backs this up

No measurement, incident or pipeline using it.

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How this was produced

Every figure above was read from the Gantry knowledge graph, version 7.1.0, and computed when you opened this page — in 393 ms on 2026-10-27. Nothing here is a cached verdict or a dataset assembled for marketing: it is the same model our engagements run on.