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The Industry is Stuck in a Vulnerability Crisis
Container security is broken—CVE backlogs overwhelm security teams, developers lose productivity, and compliance pressures mount. Root’s patent pending Automated Vulnerability Remediation (“AVR”), powered by agentic AI, automates remediation, keeping container images secure without breaking dependencies or disrupting workflows.
For years, the only real options have been:
- DIY manual patching – slow, error-prone, and impossible to scale.
- Base image switching – requiring teams to rebase and re-engineer workflows just to meet security requirements.
- Slimmed-down minimal images – breaking dependencies and making images harder to develop on, deploy, and maintain.
These approaches introduce operational friction, increase engineering effort, and ultimately slow down adoption. What teams need isn’t another “shift left” security tool that adds more work to developers’ plates—they need a solution that automates the work away.
Introducing Root AVR: Zero Critical/High Vulnerabilities in Minutes
Root’s Automated Vulnerability Remediation (“AVR”) is a fully automated SaaS service that continuously updates container images with non-breaking patches and upgrades—eliminating vulnerabilities without requiring developers to change their workflows. It integrates seamlessly with existing CI/CD pipelines and registries, making vulnerability management effortless, automated, and scalable.
How Root AVR Works
Root AVR follows a simple, four-step process to assess, remediate, verify, and secure container images—without breaking dependencies.
1. Assess Root.io’s patent-pending Automated Vulnerability Remediation technology starts by assessing the CVEs present in your image and checking known CVE databases for patches.
2. Remediation Based on the CVE assessment, Root AVR provides remediation recommendations—either upgrading to a more recent version or applying strategic patches to the existing image. Root handles both upstream fixes and backporting to maintain compatibility.
3. Proof Every patch comes with a detailed audit trail, showing exactly how your image was secured. From SBOM to VEX statements, you gain full visibility and control over your security posture.
4. Fixed Say goodbye to vulnerability backlogs. Your container images are patched, verified, and deployment-ready—with proof and security documentation.
Automated Backporting: Faster Patching at Scale
Not all vulnerabilities have an immediate fix. Many teams are forced to wait for upstream vendors to release patches, leaving critical security gaps open for weeks—or even months.
Root AVR eliminates this waiting game. Using agentic automation, Root AVR identifies missing patches, determines if a backport is possible, and applies security fixes—all without breaking dependencies.
- Automated Analysis: Our system scans vulnerability databases and determines whether a safe backport is feasible.
- Backported Security Fixes: If an official patch isn’t available for a specific package version, Root AVR identifies upstream fixes and applies them to your existing dependencies.
- Scalability & Speed: Unlike manual approaches, our agentic powered automation allows us to process, validate, and apply backported patches across thousands of images simultaneously.
- Meets & Exceeds SLAs: This level of automation ensures teams can remediate vulnerabilities faster than upstream release cycles, keeping security teams ahead of compliance deadlines and security mandates.
Why Other Approaches Don’t Work
DIY Approaches Are Failing
Security teams are overwhelmed. Manual patching and tracking dependencies is a never-ending, high-effort task that doesn’t scale. New vulnerabilities emerge daily, making it impossible to keep up. Compliance pressures (CIS, FedRAMP, internal policies) demand a better solution.
Chainguard: Base Image Swap and Vendor Lock-In
- Requires teams to switch to their Alpine-based images, known for compatibility issues and slower performance.
- Black-box model – abstracts open source and intermediates package management, leading to vendor lock-in.
- Requires significant re-engineering effort to adopt, delaying deployment.
Rapidfort: Brittle Slimming Instead of Patching
- Removes files and dependencies, creating fragile images that require rigorous testing.
- Does not actually patch vulnerabilities—just strips down the image.
- Minimal images lack necessary tools, making them harder to develop, deploy, and maintain.
Root AVR: The Best of All Worlds
- Fixes vulnerabilities in your existing images – no rebasing, no OS switching, no lock-in.
- Automates continuous patching – keeps images secure without manual intervention.
- Backports patches where none exist yet – protecting against vulnerabilities faster than upstream fixes.
- Seamlessly integrates into CI/CD pipelines – making security effortless for teams.
What This Means for Security and DevOps Teams
- Security teams finally have a way to reduce vulnerabilities to zero—automatically.
- Developers avoid breaking changes, revalidating dependencies, and re-engineering workflows.
- Leadership gains predictable security and compliance without excessive costs or delays.
- No shifting left, no additional burden on developers—just automated security that works.
Get Started with Root AVR Today
Start securing your container images today—without manual patching or breaking dependencies.
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