RapidFort Curated Images vs Aikido Hardened Images

Near-zero CVE images.
On the Linux you already run.

Tens of thousands of curated images, hardened and rebuilt every 24 hours. Every patchable CVE eliminated, with CISA KEV severity fixed within 24 hours, critical and high in 7 days, moderate in 21 days, and low in 28 days. Adoption is one line in your Dockerfile.

Tens of thousands of curated images
Rebuilt every 24 hours
Critical and high CVEs patched in 7 days
Available in Iron Bank and major cloud marketplaces
Head To Head

Compare the six things that matter

Capability

Rapidfort Curated Images

aikido Hardened Images

CVE scope

All patchable CVEs eliminated

Documented as critical and high severity, with application packages on best effort

Patch commitment

CISA KEV in 24 hours, critical and high in 7 days, moderate in 21 days, and low in 28 days.

CISA KEV in 48 hours, critical and high in 7 days, medium and low in commercially reasonable SLA.

Catalog breadth

Tens of thousands of curated images

2,000+ images

Base OS

Genuine upstream Ubuntu, Debian, Alpine, and Red Hat UBI

Patches the base you already run, same family and major version

Regulated builds

Hardened to CIS and DISA STIG, FIPS 140-3 builds, available in Iron Bank

FIPS images offered; no STIG or CIS variants published

Your own layers

Runtime profiling and optional removal of components that never execute

Network reachability analysis, not execution profiling

PQC-readiness

Non-FIPS versions of RapidFort base images and libraries are PQC-ready (Post quantum cryptography ready)

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Trusted by Your Peers.

Gartner

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Software Supply Chain Security

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Peer Insights

Verified customer reviews

DoD

Iron Bank Approved

DISA validated hardened images

U.S. Gov

Air Force & Space Force

Trusted in production

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"We eliminated our CVE backlog without touching a single Dockerfile. The runtime profiler paid for the platform in the first sprint."

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Senior Security Engineer

Fortune 500 Financial Services

Verified G2 Review

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"We eliminated our CVE backlog without touching a single Dockerfile. The runtime profiler paid for the platform in the first sprint."

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Senior Security Engineer

Fortune 500 Financial Services

Verified G2 Review

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"We eliminated our CVE backlog without touching a single Dockerfile. The runtime profiler paid for the platform in the first sprint."

SR

Senior Security Engineer

Fortune 500 Financial Services

Verified G2 Review

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Adoption Effort

A drop-in replacement, not a migration

RapidFort Curated Images are built on genuine upstream distributions, with the full patch version pinned in the tag. You point the image reference at a curated tag and rebuild.

What stays the same:

Your Dockerfiles and application code

Your Linux distribution and major version

Your registry, CI pipeline, and scanner

Your pinned minor and older versions

Container base image comparison showing python:3.12 replaced with a RapidFort curated Python image, with Ubuntu, Debian, Alpine, and Red Hat UBI distributions and a catalog of application images.
Beyond the Base Image

A clean base is only the start

Your team layers software on top of that base image, and that layer is where the rest of your CVEs live. Runtime profiling records what actually executes, so everything that never runs can be optionally removed.

Up to 99.9%

CVE elimination

Up to 90%

attack surface reduction

Regulated Environments

Built for the programs that get audited

STIG and CIS

Catalog images hardened to DISA STIG and CIS Benchmarks.

FIPS builds

FIPS 140-3 builds for workloads with cryptographic requirements.

Federal availability

Available in Iron Bank and deployable on premises via Big Bang.

Audit artifacts

SBOM export in SPDX, CycloneDX, JSON, and CSV, with VEX support.

Compliance

Every container CVE its own BOD 26-04 compliant live remediation clock

Customer Story

Beyond Identity saved three months on FedRAMP certification

3 months

off the FedRAMP timeline

50%

lower Secure SDLC and image hardening cost

“They cut the cost of image hardening and SSDLC efforts by 50%, shaved three months off our overall compliance timeline, and delivered outstanding support every step of the way.”
Borislav Ivanov

Engineering Manager, Site Reliability Engineering, Beyond Identity

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Getting started

Three steps to your first swap

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Find your images

Search the catalog for the images, versions, and base distributions you run.

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Swap and validate

Point the build at the curated tag, then run your existing tests and scanner.

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Stay patched

Daily rebuilds keep the base current. Add runtime profiling when you are ready.

Questions

What teams ask before switching

What is the difference between RapidFort Curated Images and Aikido Hardened Images?
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Why near-zero CVEs and not zero?
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Do I have to move to a different Linux distribution?
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What exactly changes in my build?
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Can I stay on an older or pinned version?
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Can I run RapidFort Curated Images alongside Aikido?
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