Addressing growing software supply chain
threats with real-time insights and proactive risk mitigation to
eliminate vulnerabilities and accelerate engineering
velocity
KIRKLAND, Wash., March 25,
2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Chainguard, the secure
foundation for software development and deployment, today announced
a partnership with Datadog, Inc. (NASDAQ: DDOG), the monitoring and
security platform for cloud applications. Together, Chainguard and
Datadog will combine container observability with clear,
prioritized actions to help engineering and security teams
eliminate common vulnerabilities and exploits (CVEs), and improve
software development velocity. Through a new Chainguard dashboard
in Datadog, customers can gain real-time insights into container
risks, receive clear remediation recommendations, and seamlessly
transition to more secure alternatives — accelerating software
delivery while reducing security threats.
Lack of visibility leads to increased exposure and decreased
innovation
According to the World Economic Forum's Global Cybersecurity
Outlook 2025 report, 54% of large organizations identified supply
chain challenges as the biggest barrier to achieving cyber
resilience. Although reducing software supply chain risk has become
a board-level concern, ownership of this outcome is split between
engineering and security teams, often resulting in gaps in
visibility and accountability. Security leaders often struggle with
a lack of comprehensive insight into their organization's container
infrastructure, working across organizational silos to triage
vulnerabilities based on deployment breadth and growing
vulnerability backlogs. At the same time, engineering leaders face
limited visibility into security risks, challenges in prioritizing
container image replacements, and difficulty measuring the
effectiveness of security measures. Without a unified view and path
to vulnerability elimination, these challenges increase exposure to
supply chain attacks and slow innovation.
A holistic view of container infrastructure, risk, and
actionable insights
The integration between Chainguard and Datadog addresses these
challenges by enhancing Datadog's core container
observability with new visibility and associated risk remediation
potential, surfaced in a dashboard. The Chainguard dashboard
organizes container metrics to understand where Chainguard is being
used today and identifies environments where a more secure base
image is available.
The dashboard will be available to all Datadog customers,
offering a holistic view of existing container infrastructure and
associated CVE risks, including:
- Containers built using Chainguard images;
- Longest running container images;
- Vulnerabilities in most widely-used images; and
- Chainguard alternatives for insecure container images.
"Through our partnership with Datadog, we're combining leading
observability with secure, minimal container solutions," said
Kim Lewandowski, Chief Product
Officer and Co-founder at Chainguard. "Chainguard is building the
safe source for open source so customers can build more efficiently
and securely from the start. Datadog is leading the way in
observability and monitoring across cloud infrastructure. Together,
we're empowering companies of all sizes to build software
better."
"Tens of thousands of organizations rely on Datadog every day
for real-time risk monitoring and visibility into the health and
performance of their containerized environments," said Bharat
Sajnani, Senior Vice President, Head of Corporate Development and
Platform at Datadog. "With our integration with Chainguard, our
customers can identify CVE risks within their container
infrastructure, seamlessly pinpoint alternatives, and measure
progress in implementing these minimal CVE container images.
Together, we're helping companies make their container
infrastructure more secure while making the most of their
engineering resources."
Customers benefit from reduced risk and optimized engineering
resources
With Chainguard and Datadog's integration, joint customers
benefit from reduced risk across their application surface area.
Now, security teams can move from reactive alerts to proactive risk
reduction by identifying and prioritizing CVE remediation in their
most widely deployed and high-risk containers. As a result,
engineering teams will spend less time patching one-off containers,
so organizations can redirect development resources and ship secure
software faster.
The Chainguard and Datadog integration is now generally
available. For more information, visit
https://app.datadoghq.com/integrations/chainguard
About Chainguard
Chainguard is the secure foundation for software development and
deployment. By providing guarded open source software, built from
source and updated continuously, Chainguard helps organizations
eliminate threats in their software supply chains. Its customers
include Fortune 500 enterprises and leading technology companies,
including Anduril, Canva, Checkmarx, HPE, GitLab, Snowflake, and
Wiz. Chainguard is venture-backed by leading investors, including
Amplify, IVP, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Redpoint Ventures,
Sequoia Capital, and Spark Capital. For more information, visit:
https://www.chainguard.dev/
MEDIA CONTACT:
Brittany Hendrickson
brittany.hendrickson@chainguard.dev
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