How does RapidFort reduce Attack Surface and Vulnerabilities in my software?

RapidFort instruments (stubs) your workloads without affecting the operational functionality of your image. When all the features in your application are “exercised”, ideally during the software testing phase, the instrumentation will enable RapidFort to know which files/packages are used by your application (Profiling your software). Once this profiling is completed, RapidFort now removes the unused/unnecessary files/packages from your container, thus reducing the overall attack surface of your software and the Vulnerabilities that existed within those unused files.

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Our Software test coverage is not comprehensive. Should I be worried that RapidFort will inadvertently remove files that will affect my application’s functionality?
Unlike a software functionality test, RapidFort does not require every line of code to be validated/tested. Instead, Rapidfort only needs the s/w features to be invoked/exercised in order to accurately profile the software. As long as every feature ...
What programming languages are supported by RapidFort?
RapidFort scans, detects and removes vulnerabilities for the following languages: Java .NET Javascript Node.js Python PHP Ruby Go Rust
How long should we “test”/”exercise” our application for RapidFort to have a comprehensive profile of the software before Optimizing/hardening our application?
It depends on how many features your application has and how long it will take to exercise those features. Note that RapidFort doesn’t require a comprehensive QA test approach to test every line of code. Please do pay special attention to cron jobs ...
What happens if there is a language in the container that you do not support?
RapidFort offers two benefits to users that are slightly different - container optimization and vulnerability management. When we talk about container optimization we refer to the process of removing unused files. RapidFort scans a container and ...
I am unable to install the RapidFort CLI tools on my computer. I get the following: “ERROR: Could not install packages due to an EnvironmentError: [Errno 13] Permission denied”
You will need to install the application as a superuser. The following syntax will address the error: sudo pip install rapidfort --extra-index-url https://pypi.rapidfort.com

How does RapidFort reduce Attack Surface and Vulnerabilities in my software?

How does RapidFort reduce Attack Surface and Vulnerabilities in my software?

Related Articles

Our Software test coverage is not comprehensive. Should I be worried that RapidFort will inadvertently remove files that will affect my application’s functionality?

What programming languages are supported by RapidFort?

How long should we “test”/”exercise” our application for RapidFort to have a comprehensive profile of the software before Optimizing/hardening our application?

What happens if there is a language in the container that you do not support?

I am unable to install the RapidFort CLI tools on my computer. I get the following: “ERROR: Could not install packages due to an EnvironmentError: [Errno 13] Permission denied”