SONATYPE SOLUTIONS
Container Security Solutions for Modern Development
Scan container images, identify risk, and enforce policies to secure containerized applications throughout the software development lifecycle.
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Secure Every Container Before They Move Downstream
Modern organizations rely on containers to build, ship, and scale applications faster than ever before. By embedding container security solutions directly into developer workflows, organizations can reduce risk, accelerate remediation, and confidently deploy secure applications at scale.
Mitigate Your Risk with Container Security Solutions from Sonatype
Sonatype helps secure containers from the start by automating vulnerability detection, enforcing governance, and managing trusted container workflows across the SDLC. The result is faster innovation with built-in confidence and control.
Shift Left: Catch Container Risks Early
Sonatype Guide integrates into CI/CD platforms like GitHub and Jenkins to scan containers for known vulnerabilities, policy violations, and license risks in existing workflows. Identify issues early, before containers reach production, ensuring only secure, compliant images move forward.
Block Malicious Components
Sonatype Firewall protects container pipelines by blocking malicious or vulnerable components and AI models before they’re ever downloaded. It acts as a gatekeeper at the perimeter, preventing risky dependencies from being included in containerized deployments or image registries.
Securely Manage Container Images
Nexus Repository offers a secure, scalable way to store and manage container images. It supports trusted component and AI model sourcing, integrates with container orchestration and CI/CD tools, and ensures teams are building with verified, compliant containers across the entire development lifecycle.
Gain Visibility Into Container Contents
Modern container images can contain hundreds of direct and transitive dependencies, making it difficult to understand your true risk exposure. SBOM-driven analysis provides a complete inventory of the open source and third-party components within every image, helping teams identify vulnerable dependencies, accelerate incident response, and meet evolving software supply chain and compliance requirements.
Secure AI-Powered Applications
AI models are increasingly deployed in containers alongside the open source components that power them. Sonatype helps teams identify vulnerable dependencies within container images and application code, providing actionable remediation guidance directly within developer workflows. The result is faster, more secure delivery of AI-powered applications.
Proven Results to Secure Your Containerized Deployments
Sonatype helps teams keep containerized software secure at every step, from choosing components and scanning images to enforcing policies before deployment.
Protect Your Containers From Code to Production
Implementing container security solutions help to safeguard applications from risk. Sonatype embeds security controls into development workflows so teams can deploy resilient and compliant containerized applications.
Scan Container Images
Continuously scan container images for known vulnerabilities, policy violations, and license risks.
Analyze Traffic on Containers
Get insights into application dependencies across the full container image.
Block Vulnerable Images
Block vulnerable container images from progressing using automated policy enforcement.
Embed Security into CI/CD Pipelines
Reduce rework with Sonatype and secure containers in every CI/CD build stage.
Container Security for AI Models
Increase visibility and control over AI model use to mitigate risk exposure in your containers.
Automate Security Testing
Automate scanning, policy checks, and enforcement within your containerized development projects.
Sonatype Named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Software Supply Chain Security
We’re proud to announce that Gartner has recognized Sonatype as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Software Supply Chain Security, evaluating vendors helping organizations secure software across open source, AI-generated code, dependencies, and software supply chains.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is container security?
Container security is the practice of identifying and controlling risk in container images before they are deployed. It includes scanning the OS packages and application dependencies inside an image, enforcing security and license policies, and managing access to trusted images and components. Container security solutions help prevent vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and unauthorized access, ensuring containers remain reliable, compliant, and resilient from development through deployment in dynamic, cloud-native environments.
What is the importance of container protection in cloud environments?
Container protection secures your applications by detecting vulnerabilities, preventing unauthorized access, and stopping threats in real-time. Sonatype empowers teams with tools like advanced network traffic inspection and automated policy enforcement to ensure robust security from build to runtime.
How can container security solutions help secure my deployments?
Containers can quickly become at risk due to untrusted images, unchecked vulnerabilities, and inconsistent policies across teams. These issues can lead to exposure of sensitive data, compliance risks, and production downtime. Sonatype helps teams mitigate these risks by embedding open source security early, automating threat detection, and enforcing governance across containerized deployments.
Can container security solutions improve my cloud infrastructure?
Enhance open source security by embedding tools that scan, monitor, and enforce policies at every stage. Sonatype provides vulnerability scanning, runtime protection, and auto-learning systems to automatically detect risks and secure containers throughout their software development lifecycle.
How is container security different from virtual machine (VM) security?
Containers package an application with its dependencies and often share the host operating system kernel, while virtual machines run separate guest operating systems. Container security focuses on the image and its contents, including OS packages, open source dependencies, configuration, and policy compliance before deployment. Sonatype helps teams scan container images and enforce policies early so risky components do not move through the software delivery process.
What container registries and orchestration platforms are supported?
Sonatype integrates with leading platforms including Docker, Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift, Rancher, Amazon ECS/EKS, Apache Mesos, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), IBM Cloud, and Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE). Our tools are designed to seamlessly complement your registry and orchestration tools, offering flexibility and wide compatibility.
What tools are available for container security, scanning, and management?
Sonatype provides container security, scanning, and management through Sonatype Guide, Sonatype Repository Firewall, and Sonatype Nexus Repository. Together, these tools help teams scan container images, identify vulnerabilities in OS packages and application dependencies, enforce policies, block malicious components before download, manage trusted Docker and OCI images, and maintain SBOM visibility across containerized applications. Additionally, Sonatype’s native container scanner combines Sonatype’s proprietary vulnerability intelligence with open source data to give teams a more complete view of risk in their container images.
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