Open Source Security Podcast

By Josh Bressers & Kurt Seifried

Reducing attack surface for less security

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Published February 11, 2024 6:00pm

Josh and Kurt talk about a blog post explaining how to create a very very small container image. Generally in the world of security less is more, but it's possible to remove too much. A lot of today's security tooling relies on certain things to exist in a container image, if we remove them we could actually result in worse security than leaving it in. It's a weird topic, but probably pretty important. Show Notes How I reduced the size of my very first published docker image by 40% - A lesson in dockerizing shell scripts Hacker...

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