Case Study: GitGuardian eliminates container CVEs and shrinks image size with Chainguard Images
Key results
The challenge
GitGuardian faced a growing backlog of CVEs across its software containers, straining a small team of full-time engineers responsible for triage and remediation. Customers in regulated sectors such as defense and public services expected software shipped with minimal or zero CVEs, whether deployed on-prem or in the cloud.
The solution
GitGuardian adopted Chainguard Images to rebuild its container environments on hardened, minimal base images that Chainguard maintains and patches. This shifted vulnerability management upstream and reduced the manual patching burden on GitGuardian's engineers.
The results, in context
GitGuardian reported eliminating CVEs by 100%, moving from numerous critical and high vulnerabilities to effectively none, alongside a 33% reduction in image size. The time saved was redirected toward expanding the company's secret-detection capabilities.