FedRAMP’s requirements for accreditation, continuous monitoring, and ongoing reporting drive significant overhead and complexity.
Chainguard accelerates accreditation and simplifies continuous monitoring with minimal, zero-CVE containers. Our images come with FIPS cryptography, OS-level STIGs, and full SBOMs, with a best-in-class SLA for CVE remediation.
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Chainguard offers FIPS-validated, STIG-hardened, zero-CVE images off the shelf, shrinking your FedRAMP timeline significantly from Day 1.
Eliminate FedRAMP overhead and costs by shrinking investments in build pipelines, FIPS-validation, STIG hardening, and CVE remediation.
Get to market faster than the competition and capitalize on Federal buying cycles immediately to grow your business.
Let your developers focus on building innovative products by freeing them from the endless doom cycle of CVE remediation.
Achieving and maintaining accreditation requires companies to jump through hundreds of complex and demanding hoops.
Chainguard solves mission-critical FedRAMP controls by default with secure-by-design Container Images.
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FedRAMP mandates strict SLAs for remediation (30 days for high, 90 for medium, 180 for low).
Reduce the burden on eng, security, and compliance by starting at zero CVEs and staying there under Chainguard’s best-in-class SLA (7 days for critical; 14 days for high/medium/low).
ConMon requires a Plan of Action & Milestone (POA&M) report from vendors for every CVE.
Chainguard’s minimal images accumulate CVEs 80% more slowly than alternatives and eliminate 97.6% of CVEs on average. Bring POA&M reporting to zero and free up developer time.
FedRAMP requires the implementation of FIPS-validated cryptography across your stack.
Deploy functionally equivalent FIPS images with support for OpenSSL 3.0 and Bouncy Castle. Optimize cost, performance, and flexibility with our unique kernel-independent FIPS containers.
FedRAMP’s container hardening standard points to STIGs approved by the DISA.
Chainguard hardens every FIPS image according to our dedicated OS-Level STIG with transparent OSCAP validation. Eliminate months of manual configuration and investments in STIG expertise.
FedRAMP requires vendors to regularly catalog all software components within the ATO scope.
Make asset management a one-click task with SBOMs generated as code. Our SBOMs include detailed component lists, including transitive dependencies and software dark matter.
FedRAMP requires transparent attestation to understand where and how software is built.
Chainguard cryptographically signs all artifacts built in our hardened and trusted environment using Sigstore to deliver transparent attestation and full software provenance.
“„Wenn man an Kundendaten denkt, dreht sich alles um Vertrauen. Daher war es schon immer unsere Philosophie, Sicherheit in das Produkt zu integrieren, sodass sich der Kunde darauf konzentrieren kann, Erkenntnisse aus den Daten zu gewinnen, und sich keine Sorgen um die Sicherheit der Plattform machen muss.“”
“We were able to shortcut the vulnerability management back and forth for all of the dependencies and the base images by saying, ‘Here are the Chainguard Images that we are using.’ And it was a one-time ‘done’ without needing to go through a huge back and forth. That saved us quite a bit of time as we went through this ATO process.”
Chainguard Images have minimal CVEs, a smaller attack surface, and accumulative CVEs more slowly than the alternatives, making it easier for government agencies and auditors to grant authorizations.
Chainguard delivers a higher rate of success for FedRAMP accreditation at a lower total cost of ownership.
| Task | Requirement |
Chainguard Solution |
Per Image DIY Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asset Management | Catalog and Track All ATO Boundary Assets |
|
Not Calculated |
| FIPS Validation | Implement FIPS Validated Cryptographic Modules |
|
$5-10k |
| STIG Hardening | Harden and Test Security Controls |
|
$2-5k |
| CVE Management | CVE Remediation Under Strict SLAs |
|
$15-20k |
| POA&M Reporting | Report All Vulnerabilities and Exposures |
|
$5-10k |
| Total Cost Per Image | $125-260K | ||
288,000Engineering Hours Saved for Customers
1,2k+Total Containers in the Catalog
400+FIPS Containers in the Catalog
Chainguard turns compliance roadmaps into real results
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97.6%Avg. Reduction in CVEs
80%Reduction in Attack Surface
72,000+CVEs Remediated
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FedRAMP has several requirements for container image security that can be difficult to maintain, including vulnerability management and container hardening.
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