Minimus images are updated and rebuilt daily to ensure that their latest version is clean and secure, with few-to-zero vulnerabilities. Still, new vulnerabilities are constantly being discovered, and can quickly accumulate in older image versions that must be upgraded to patch. In practice, however, upgrading to the latest version can increase instability and is therefore often delayed by testing cycles. The need to balance security updates with app stability, reintroduces the need to prioritize vulnerabilities, especially taking into consideration their exploitability. Minimus provides a threat intel layer to make it simple to track risk and remediation steps directly from the image gallery. Minimus enriches every vulnerability advisory with data from 3 risk assessment systems:
There’s no inherent correlation between the vulnerability and if threat actors are exploiting them in terms of those severity ratings. Gartner Analyst, Mitchell Schneider