7 container security best practices

**Executive summary:** This blog post presents seven practical container security best practices—start with minimal, clean images; scan early and continuously (including binary and runtime analysis); control user and CI/CD access; harden runtime configurations; use modern testing tools and SBOMs (plus ML/AI-specific BOMs); and expand testing beyond vulnerabilities to detect malware, tampering, and leaked secrets—to reduce software supply chain risk and address emerging AI-related threats.