Government and public sector agencies face a software security challenge that traditional tools cannot solve. Attackers exploit vulnerabilities faster than teams can remediate them. Compliance mandates grow stricter. The software supply chain remains the most targeted entry point.
RapidFort delivers Continuous Threat Elimination across the entire software lifecycle, eliminating up to 99.9% of CVEs, reducing software attack surface by up to 90%, and generating continuous compliance evidence, without code changes and without pipeline disruption.
Every container build inherits risk from its base image. For government agencies, that inherited risk translates directly into compliance gaps and exploitable attack surface.
RapidFort Curated Images give your teams a near-zero CVE baseline from the start of every build. With over 35,000 hardened images built on trusted open source Linux distributions including Ubuntu, RHEL, Debian, and Alpine, development teams keep working with the tools and images they already know. Security teams get the assurance that everything entering the pipeline already meets their requirements.
Neither group compromises. Neither group changes how they work.
What Curated Images deliver:
RapidFort Analyzer scans container images across CI/CD pipelines, registries, and Kubernetes environments, generating a comprehensive Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) for every image, package, and file. It identifies image origin, installed packages, known CVEs, image size, and license requirements, while reducing vulnerability alert noise by approximately 25% so teams focus on real, actionable risk.
Most vulnerability tools report on everything installed in a container. The vast majority of those packages are never executed at runtime. Yet every one of them expands your attack surface and counts against your compliance posture.
RapidFort Profiler instruments your containers at runtime and generates an RBOM® (Runtime Bill of Materials), a precise, evidence-based map of exactly which packages and components are actively used during execution. It then compares the RBOM® with the SBOM to reveal which components constitute your real attack surface and which can be safely eliminated.
For government agencies, this means security teams are no longer chasing theoretical risk. They are acting on verified, runtime-confirmed exposure.
Once Profiler identifies what is actually running, Optimizer acts on that intelligence. It eliminates excess unused code, packages, libraries, and files that serve no runtime purpose but contribute directly to vulnerability exposure and compliance risk.
The result is a hardened, minimal container image rebuilt on continuous 24-hour cycles, ensuring that hardening is an ongoing operational posture, not a one-time project.
For agencies pursuing STIG compliance and ATO authorization, Optimizer delivers continuously hardened golden images without manual intervention and without disrupting existing pipelines.
For public sector agencies, compliance is not optional and audit preparation is never truly finished. FedRAMP authorizations, cATO packages, CMMC assessments, STIG reviews, and NIST control validations demand continuous evidence, not point-in-time snapshots assembled under deadline pressure.
RapidFort CART continuously validates your container environment against the security benchmarks government agencies are required to meet and compiles that validation into structured, audit-ready documentation. Your compliance posture is always current. Your audit artifacts are always ready.
Security teams spend less time assembling evidence and more time on mission. Compliance becomes a continuous output of secure operations, not a separate workstream that drains resources.
RapidFort is the only platform that starts secure and stays secure, from base image to production runtime, continuously, without code changes, and without compromise.
For agencies managing authorization cycles, hardening containerized workloads, or securing a mission-critical software supply chain, RapidFort ensures your software supply chain never becomes the path of least resistance for an adversary.
Security at the source. Continuous. Without compromise.