Regularly updating software components can eliminate two-thirds of the vulnerabilities found in container images, while minimizing the number of libraries can also reduce the attack surface area in some cases, according to research by a team at Concordia University in Montreal. The research, which focused on containerized applications used in high-performance computing (HPC) environments for neuroimage processing, analyzed 44 container images using vulnerability scanners and found that the average container image had more than 320 vulnerabilities.

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