For years, we watched SRE and platform teams lose night after night to the same grind:

pull the latest base image → run a scan → discover a pile of CVEs → patch → test → repeat.

Even "latest" images for Redis, Grafana, Prometheus, or any third-party tool arrived with vulnerabilities baked in.

The real pain wasn't the work itself.

It was the constant feeling of:

"Why are we doing this manually? Why is there still no practical way to stop inheriting vulnerabilities at the source?"

When we looked for solutions, yes — there were players in the market.

But the reality was simple:

everything that actually solved the problem was priced like a luxury product.

Great tech, no doubt.

But completely out of reach for smaller teams, fast-growing companies, or anyone who couldn't justify enterprise-tier contracts just to keep their container images clean.

Security shouldn't be reserved for companies with massive budgets.

It shouldn't be a privilege.

It should be the baseline.

That's when the idea behind ImageSentinel stopped being a complaint and turned into a mission.

We didn't want teams to choose between:

✕burning engineering time on endless patching
or
✕paying enterprise-only prices for basic safety

So we built ImageSentinel to make secure, hardened, CVE-free images accessible to everyone — not just Fortune 100 budgets.

We exist so the next engineering team doesn't have to repeat the same painful cycle we lived through.

We clean the images so you don't have to.

We take the vulnerability burden off your plate so you can build fast, reliable systems — without drowning in CVE noise, and without needing a seven-figure security budget.

This didn't come from theory.

It came from living the problem and refusing to accept that "this is just how it is."

How ImageSentinel Started

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