This solution brief explains how organizations can reduce cloud-native application risk from build through runtime by pairing Chainguard’s hardened base images with Orca’s risk prioritization. It describes why traditional open-source usage creates overwhelming CVE backlogs due to missing fixes, vulnerable base images that multiply flaws across containers, and hidden dependencies that delay patching. Chainguard provides minimal “distroless” container and VM images built from source, designed to shrink attack surface and dramatically reduce CVEs, with a curated catalog of 1,700+ images and development variants to support multi-stage builds. Orca complements this by scanning Chainguard-based images and packages, validating findings against advisories to reduce false positives, and prioritizin

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