An Intellyx Brain Candy Update
Since we last covered RapidFort in October 2023, the company has added curation and instrumentation to its automated software hardening approach to software vulnerability mitigation.
Curation is the process of applying patches to software packages to create images that are nearly vulnerability-free, thus complying with regulations and standards for vulnerability-free images.
Instrumentation gives developers the ability to scan the software they are either developing or integrating to identify known vulnerabilities (CVEs), enabling them to generate software bills of materials (SBOMs) as well as real-time bills of materials (RBOMs).
Hardening removes unused code from containers on a file-by-file basis, eliminating many vulnerabilities while also reducing transport and storage costs as well as improving performance.
RapidFort automates this entire mitigation process on a daily basis, reducing the number of vulnerabilities from potentially many thousands to a tiny handful (if any at all).
RapidFort is particularly valuable for regulated industries and government agencies who not only have to deploy vulnerability-free software but must also be able to document their vulnerability mitigation processes for compliance purposes.
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