Bengaluru, India [Mar 17, 2026] - CleanStart today announced CleanSight, a container visibility capability designed to help enterprises discover every container image across their infrastructure, understand their vulnerability exposure, and replace risky images with verified, hardened alternatives.

As container usage grows, organizations often accumulate hundreds of images across registries, Kubernetes clusters, and cloud environments, including unused and dormant artifacts that remain untracked but still introduce risk. Security teams frequently lack a complete inventory of what exists, making it difficult to assess exposure or maintain compliance.

CleanSight addresses this challenge by continuously discovering container images across the infrastructure, analyzing their contents, and providing detailed insight into vulnerability, dependency, and compliance posture.   

“You cannot secure what you cannot see,” said Vijendra Katiyar, CRO of CleanStart.

“Most enterprises today have container images spread across registries, clusters, and environments with no single source of truth. CleanSight gives organizations a complete inventory of their container estate and helps them move to images they can actually trust.”

Infrastructure-Wide Container Discovery

CleanSight provides continuous discovery across the full container estate, including:

• Running containers in Kubernetes clusters

• Images stored in private and public registries

• Dormant or unused images

• Shadow deployments and orphaned artifacts

This establishes a complete container inventory and eliminates blind spots that often exist in large environments.   

For every discovered image, CleanSight generates detailed exposure intelligence, including:

• Full SBOM in SPDX or CycloneDX format

• Component-level dependency mapping

• CVE correlation with severity breakdown

• Compliance alignment across major frameworks0

This allows security and engineering teams to understand exactly what exists inside each container and how it impacts overall risk posture.   

Risk, Compliance, and Exposure Intelligence in One View

CleanSight provides measurable insight into container risk across environments through:

• Vulnerability distribution analysis

• Exploitability-aware risk scoring

• Compliance mapping for NIST, FedRAMP, STIG, FIPS 140-3, SOC 2, and PCI DSS

• Audit-ready reporting

This enables organizations to maintain visibility not only into vulnerabilities, but also into compliance readiness across their container infrastructure.   

From Visibility to Action with Hardened Image Recommendations

When vulnerabilities or policy violations are detected, CleanSight recommends compatible hardened images from CleanStart as secure alternatives.

Each recommendation includes:

• Compatibility scoring

• CVE reduction comparison

• Compliance readiness alignment

This allows teams to remediate risk without redesigning applications or changing workflows, while maintaining consistency across environments.   

Designed for Security, Platform, and Compliance Teams

CleanSight is built for enterprise environments where container usage spans multiple teams, registries, and deployment platforms.

Security and GRC teams gain complete inventory and audit-ready reporting, while engineering teams get clear visibility into deployed images and compatible hardened alternatives, without disrupting CI/CD workflows.   

Availability

CleanSight is available immediately for enterprise customers worldwide.

More information:

https://www.cleanstart.com/cleansight

About CleanStart

CleanStart is a software supply chain security company focused on building secure, verifiable container images from the ground up. CleanStart images are built from source using a deterministic, hermetic build system aligned with SLSA Level 4 principles, enabling strong provenance, transparency, and near-zero known vulnerabilities at release time.

The platform delivers hardened, debloated container images that are compliance-ready, with native support for SBOM and AI BOM generation, cryptographic verification, and policy-driven enforcement. By integrating security earlier in the software lifecycle, CleanStart helps organizations reduce attack surface, simplify compliance with standards such as CIS Benchmarks, DISA STIGs, and FIPS 140-3, and ship software they can trust.