CMMC certification drives significant overhead for vendors handling Confidential Unclassified Information (CUI) and seeking DoD funding. Chainguard simplifies CMMC compliance with minimal, zero-CVE containers — all images come with FIPS cryptography, OS-level STIGs, full SBOMs, and a best-in-class SLA for CVE remediation.
Unlock Department of Defense dollars faster without sacrificing developer productivity without sacrificing developer productivity
Move faster
Chainguard offers minimal, zero-CVE images by default, shrinking your compliance and audit timelines significantly from Day 1.
Lower total cost
Eliminate CMMC overhead and costs with Chainguard delivering from-source build pipelines, supply chain transparency, and CVE management.
Reduce risk
Chainguard mitigates the risk of costly security breaches and failed audits, which incite heavy fines and penalties from regulators.
Improve productivity
Let your developers focus on building innovative products by freeing them from the endless doom cycle of CVE remediation.
Meet CMMC requirements by default
Achieving and maintaining certification requires companies to jump through hundreds of complex and demanding compliance hoops. Chainguard makes it easy.
Talk to an expertSLA for CVE remediation
SI-2 and RA-3 requires timely and proactive patching of identified vulnerabilities.
Reduce the burden on eng, security, and compliance by starting at zero CVEs and staying there under Chainguard’s best-in-class SLA (7 days for critical; 14 days for high/medium/low).
Minimal and standardized
CM-2 requires standardized system configurations across the environment with least functionality.
Chainguard’s images include only minimum components required to build and run your applications. That means they accumulate CVEs 80% more slowly than alternatives and eliminate 97.6% of CVEs from the outset.
FIPS-validated cryptography
SC-12 requires the implementation of FIPS-validated cryptography across your stack.
Deploy functionally equivalent FIPS images with support for OpenSSL 3.0 and Bouncy Castle. Optimize cost, performance, and flexibility with our unique kernel-independent FIPS containers.
Malware protection
SI-3 requires processes to be put into place to protection against malicious code.
Chainguard builds every package and software component entirely from source in our hardened infrastructure, combating malware attacks at the build and distribution stages of the software supply chain.
Full build-time SBOMs
RA-1+2 require vendors to document every software component and identify vulnerabilities.
Make asset management a one-click task with SBOMs generated as code. Our SBOMs include detailed component lists, including transitive dependencies and software dark matter.
Code signatures
CM-8 requires digital attestations to ensure only trusted software is executed.
Chainguard cryptographically signs all artifacts built in our hardened and trusted environment using Sigstore to deliver transparent attestation and full software provenance.
Chainguard Containers vs. open source alternatives — the results speak for themselves
Auditors can quickly and easily verify that Chainguard Containers have zero CVEs, a smaller attack surface, and accumulate CVEs more slowly than the alternatives.
Chainguard turns compliance roadmaps into real results
DIY approaches to CMMC are complex, costly, and carry a high risk of failure
Chainguard delivers a higher rate of success for CMMC compliance at a lower total cost of ownership.
| Task | Requirement |
With Chainguard |
Per Image DIY Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardened Containers | Build hardened, minimal containers |
|
$5-10k |
| FIPS Validation | Implement FIPS-validated cryptography |
|
$100-150k |
| CVE Management | Remediate vulnerabilities in a timely manner |
|
$100-175k |
| POA&M Reporting | Report all vulnerabilities and exposures |
|
$5-10k |
| Malware Protection | Harden and test security controls |
|
Not Calculated |
| Total Cost Per Image | $210-345K | ||
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