Name: Keynote: Red Hat Hardened Images: Zero CVEs, Zero Cost - N. Harrison Ripps, Director of Engineering, Red Hat
Start: 2026-10-08T09:45:00+0200
End: 2026-10-08T09:50:00+0200

7-9 October, 2026
Prague, Czechia
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Keynote: Red Hat Hardened Images: Zero CVEs, Zero Cost - N. Harrison Ripps, Director of Engineering, Red Hat

Thursday October 8, 2026 09:45 - 09:50 CEST

Congress Hall (Floor 2)

The volume of CVEs has become impossible to manage by hand. Nearly 50,000 were tracked last year — 130 a day — and no team can triage, backport, and patch at that pace without dropping something critical.

Red Hat Hardened Images take a fundamentally different approach: minimal, distro-less containers built as close to upstream as possible on a fully automated supply chain. The result is zero known CVEs at time of delivery — without a human in the loop until one is truly needed.

In five minutes, you'll learn what "hardened images" actually means in practice, how the automated supply chain delivers security at scale, and how to start using production-ready hardened images today at no cost.

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N. Harrison Ripps

Director of Engineering, Red Hat

N. Harrison Ripps is a Director of Engineering at Red Hat, working with the Project Hummingbird / Hardened Images team. Harrison is a veteran engineering leader who specializes in running small teams that make an outsized impact. Since joining Red Hat, Harrison has led product teams... Read More →

Thursday October 8, 2026 09:45 - 09:50 CEST
Congress Hall (Floor 2)

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