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If container security and compliance are part of your 2026 priorities, the full 2026 State of Vulnerability Management & Remediation Report: Container Security Edition breaks down exactly where organizations are falling behind, and what’s replacing broken approaches.

The real failure point is remediation:
❌ Outdated base images
❌ Inherited CVEs
❌ Manual fixes that can’t keep up with ephemeral containers

The report shows that container adoption has outpaced security maturity, turning audits into a recurring risk event instead of a checkpoint.

When compromise propagates inside the ecosystem itself, there is no clear breach moment and often nothing to “patch.”

This shift is explored further in a recent STB Executive Brief written for executive leadership. Reach out if you want a copy.

I don’t know you, just found your feed, but don’t stop. Decline or not, you’re running, and that’s a win. “The best run is the run you CAN do now”

Solutions like @ActiveState focus on preventing untrusted code from entering the pipeline in the first place, not just reacting after the fact.

Because when software can infect software, “just patch it” stops being a strategy.

It becomes a liability.

The real fix is control:
✔️ controlling which open-source packages enter the organization
✔️ controlling how builds are composed
✔️ controlling who can publish, pull, and promote artifacts

This is where curated catalogs, immutable builds, and hardened base images matter.

This new class of supply-chain attack spreads inside trusted developer workflows:
• no zero-days
• no obvious malware
• no CVEs to patch

Just automation + trust + public dependencies.

That’s why detection alone won’t stop it.

If you're in those boardroom conversations talking about CVE's, I expand on this further in this month's STB Executive Brief.

As scanning improves, numbers rise, remediation effort compounds, and leadership confidence can move in the wrong direction.

That gap rarely makes it into board conversations.