Verdict-before-serve is colliding with a finding that may be wrong.
Customer installs need a timely answer, while a mistaken allow decision could distribute compromised software.
Who you’d be doing this for
“My release team is asking why a signed base image suddenly looks unsafe, and I don’t have an answer.”
Elena Popov · Platform Security Engineer
Owns pull-policy enforcement for production workloads that depend on the blocked container images.
What is at stake
Several common images are blocked after a new detection conflicts with earlier clean scans. You must weigh fast customer recovery against the risk of serving a compromised artifact.
Why it isn’t already fixed
Every obvious fix costs something else. That’s the part you’d have to decide.
- customer pull continuity vs. malware containment
- AI-assisted evidence vs. verified verdicts
- queue capacity vs. ecosystem-wide correction
- uniform policy guarantees vs. targeted exceptions
Why Chainguard
Scanner verdicts sit between signed container images and every customer install.
Written with these in mind
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This is the setup. The work is inside.
Running it puts you in the room: the full situation and its constraints, stakeholders who push back in their own words, and the decisions that are yours to make. What you produce becomes a Day One Plan — work you can show someone instead of describing.