Use These Security Best Practices for Hardened Containers and Java

Summary

If your organization is containerizing Java applications, your development teams and IT Operations teams need to consider critical components like hardened containers. Learn more in our upcoming live webinar with RapidFort.

In this post you will learn:

• The combination of zero-CVE hardened containers and a superior Java runtime can accelerate developer productivity
• This combination can also reduce the burden of security patching 
• Improve deployment velocity and operational efficiency to meet the most demanding time-to-market schedules 

Thanks to the shift-left principle, Java developers carry outsized responsibility to remediate CVEs earlier in the application development lifecycle. But without the right tools and products, this shift-left motion sets developers up to fail. 

And if developers fail, your business fails. 

Containerizing Java applications 

If your organization is containerizing Java applications, your development teams and IT Operations teams need to consider two critical components: 

1. Where are your developers getting their base containers? 

2. Where are they getting their Java runtimes? 

There’s a lot riding on these decisions. Get them wrong, and you can introduce CVEs that can slow deployment velocity and trap your development teams in a violent vortex of never-ending CVE remediation. 

Combine hardened containers and superior Java runtimes 

Hold out for zero-CVE hardened containers, like those from RapidFort. When you use them with a superior Java runtime like Azul, you give your development teams a competitive advantage that can: 

1. Accelerate developer productivity 

2. Reduce the burden of security patching 

3. Improve deployment velocity and operational efficiency to meet the most demanding time-to-market schedules 

Learn more in our webinar, Security Best Practices for Combining Hardened Containers and Java. In this joint session, Azul, the #1 commercial OpenJDK provider, and RapidFort, the industry leader in software supply chain security, will share how their new partnership is transforming Java security from runtimes to containers. 

This session is designed for developers, platform teams, and security leaders looking to strengthen their Java-based workloads while accelerating compliance readiness for frameworks like FedRAMP, CMMC, NIS2, and SOC 2.