Introducing Our Newest Ecosystem Integration: Anchore Enterprise

As organizations across industries continue to deliver digital products and services, maintaining a strong software security posture is no longer optional, it’s often a prerequisite for doing business. Moving into new regions, markets, and sectors require meeting software security thresholds, whether to meet internal customer procurement and security requirements or to comply with regulatory frameworks. From governmental regulations like FedRAMP, Essential Eight, NIS2, and CRA to industry-specific benchmarks like PCI DSS, HIPAA, and SOC 2, an organization’s ability to grow revenue, retain customers, and strengthen their brand reputation often relies on delivering secure and compliant technology.

At Chainguard, solving this problem for as many organizations as possible has always meant taking an ecosystem-centric approach, working with the full spectrum of tooling that organizations rely on at various stages of their software development cycle. We’re excited to deepen that commitment through our new integration with Anchore Enterprise. Anchore is a leader in software supply chain security for modern cloud-native environments, with large organizations and government agencies relying on Anchore to generate and manage SBOMs, automate vulnerability scanning, enforce compliance at scale, and more.

Combining Chainguard’s secure-by-default container images with Anchore’s high-accuracy scanning and automated policy enforcement helps organizations deliver more secure software while simplifying a more continuous compliance mindset.

Continuous Compliance, Simplified

A looming audit can be an extremely disruptive and dreaded event for software development and security teams.  The integration of Chainguard and Anchore helps organizations flip the script by making compliance a continuous capability instead of a one-time event.

• Chainguard delivers secure-by-default container images with a zero CVE baseline, completely visible and scannable within Anchore Enterprise.

• Anchore Enterprise continuously scans and enforces compliance policies, validating Chainguard container images and ensuring the software built on top meets the strictest frameworks.

• Together, teams gain confidence that their compliance posture is both provable and sustainable, without adding friction to the development process.

With Chainguard and Anchore, organizations can:

• Reduce risk earlier in the development cycle by shrinking the CVE footprint of open source software container images, delivering continuously updated, transparent, and trusted artifacts

• Optimize engineering resources by replacing manual patching and remediation with secure-by-default images

• Enable better security prioritization with fewer alerts

• Accelerate audits with validated evidence and compliance artifacts generated automatically

• Enter new markets faster by meeting frameworks and security requirements  out-of-the-box

Chainguard and Anchore together move organizations from reactive and costly audit and vulnerability workstreams to proactive security and compliance. By leveraging container images built from source daily and continuously validating compliance with automated scanning and policy enforcement, joint customers can confidently expand into new markets, keep pace with evolving frameworks, and deliver trusted digital products without costly delays.

Join us on 9/24 for a joint webinar with Anchore to learn more about how our two solutions can drive continuous compliance outcomes for your organization.