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title: The True Cost of CVE Management in Containers | Chainguard
description: Tired of the toil of vulnerability management? See how organizations across the board are struggling to keep CVEs low and how Chainguard Images can help.
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To gain a better understanding of how engineering teams handle vulnerability management in containers, Chainguard conducted interviews with organizations across various industries to see how many hours they spend on vulnerability management tasks—including scanning for, triaging, and remediating CVEs.

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# Linked Up: Snyk Edition

Check out our on-demand webinar discussing many different aspects of software supply chain security, including vulnerability management, featuring Micah Silverman, Director of Developer Relations at Snyk, and Chainguard’s Priya Wadhwa and Eric Smalling.

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# Build Secure And Minimal Images With Chainguard Static Images

During this hands-on lab from Chainguard Academy, we will learn how to create images that have low-to-zero CVEs and are much smaller than standard container images. This lab is focused on producing images for compiled languages that can produce static binaries, such as Go and Rust.

[Watch now](https://www.chainguard.dev/events/secure-and-minimal-images-with-chainguard-static-images)

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# Linked Up: Sequoia Edition

Check out our first in a series of webinars on the different approaches to software supply chain security from a CISO and developer perspective, featuring Sequoia Capital Global CISO, Luke Shoberg, and Information Security Principal, Caleb Tennis in conversation with Chainguard’s Priya Wadhwa.

[Watch now](https://www.crowdcast.io/c/linkedup-sequoia)

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