ILZ supports essential public operations and citizen-facing digital services by running large-scale Kubernetes infrastructure that demands uncompromised security and continuous availability. Managing this critical environment using traditional open-source container images exposed the organization to high vulnerability counts, rising operational costs, and severe vendor risk. To overcome these public-sector compliance and security challenges, ILZ integrated Chainguard into its architecture. By supplying minimal, secure-by-default container images engineered to eliminate unnecessary software bloat and common vulnerabilities, Chainguard helped the agency drastically shrink its attack surface, eliminate endless patch remediation toil, and secure its mission-critical infrastructure while ensuri

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