Why Hardened Container Images?

Security You Can't Afford to Skip

Upstream container images ship with hundreds of known vulnerabilities. Ghost delivers pre-hardened, cryptographically signed replacements built for government, defense, and regulated industries.

The Problem

Upstream Images Are a Liability

Hundreds of CVEs Out of the Box

Upstream images often ship with 200–600 known vulnerabilities. Every unpatched CVE is an open door for attackers.

Manual Patching Is Unsustainable

Tracking, testing, and applying patches across dozens of base images consumes entire security teams.

FIPS 140-2 Compliance

Government and regulated industries require FIPS-validated cryptography. Most upstream images don't qualify.

Supply Chain Attacks Are Rising

Base image poisoning is an increasingly common attack vector. Unverified images can silently compromise your entire fleet.

Air-Gapped Environments Need Pre-Validated Images

Disconnected and air-gapped environments can't pull from upstream registries. You need pre-validated, signed images ready to go.

Engineering Cycles Wasted on Infrastructure

Organizations spend months rebuilding what should be commodity infrastructure. That's time not spent shipping product.

The Solution

Ghost: Drop-In Hardened Images

Minimal CVE Exposure

Ghost images are continuously monitored and rebuilt as upstream fixes become available — keeping CVE exposure as low as possible without the manual overhead.

Cryptographic Signatures

All images are signed with Cosign. Verify authenticity before any deployment — automated, auditable, and tamper-evident.

FIPS 140-2 Validated Variants

Dedicated FIPS variants built with OpenSSL in FIPS mode. Drop-in replacements for government and regulated-industry workloads.

Full SBOM + Provenance

Every image ships with SPDX and CycloneDX SBOMs, SLSA provenance records, and OpenVEX vulnerability statements.

Compliance Evidence

Pre-mapped compliance evidence for FedRAMP, CMMC, SOC 2, PCI-DSS, and HIPAA. Audit-ready from day one.

Continuous Rebuild Pipeline

Ghost's automated pipeline monitors upstream sources 24/7. New vulnerability? New image. No manual intervention required.

About

Built by AlphaBravo

AlphaBravo is a platform engineering firm founded in 2018 and headquartered in Frederick, Maryland. We specialize in designing and operating infrastructure for air-gapped and disconnected environments — the places where conventional cloud tooling simply doesn't reach.

Ghost is part of the AlphaBravo product suite alongside Pioneer (infrastructure management) and Propeller (DevSecOps training). Together they give teams a complete, hardened path from development to production.

Our clients include the U.S. Navy, the Department of Defense, and U.S. Special Operations Command. We understand the compliance burden — because we live it.

SDVOSB

Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business

GSA Schedule 70

General Services Administration — IT Products & Services

Founded 2018

Frederick, Maryland

Clients

U.S. Navy · DoD · SOCOM

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