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CleanStart · Software Supply Chain Posture Management
Most Innovative Software Supply Chain Security Platform
Overview
CleanStart is a software supply chain posture management platform that provides visibility into security blind spots across the software delivery pipeline. By using secure, verified container images built from source, along with built-in transparency and policy-driven controls, CleanStart helps organizations reduce risk, strengthen software supply chain integrity, and simplify compliance.
Key Capabilities
- Delivers trusted software artifacts including container images, libraries, packages, and ML models with verifiable provenance and integrity controls.
- Uses hermetic, reproducible build pipelines to strengthen software provenance, artifact integrity, and software supply chain trust.
- Helps organizations reduce inherited CVEs by more than 90% in hardened software foundations while minimizing overall attack surface.
- Provides continuous software supply chain posture management across software artifacts, dependencies, SBOMs, and cloud-native environments.
- Enables contextual visibility into software provenance, integrity, exposure, and remediation priorities across the software lifecycle.
- Supports actionable remediation workflows to help security and engineering teams reduce risk faster and more efficiently.
- Generates automated SBOMs and improves transparency across software components, dependencies, and build artifacts.
- Supports SLSA-aligned build methodologies and modern software supply chain security practices.
- Reduces scanner noise and false positives through cleaner software foundations and contextualized findings.
- Enables verifiable trust from build pipelines to runtime deployment through integrity validation and artifact verification.
- Supports enterprise governance and audit readiness through automated compliance evidence generation.
- Aligns with enterprise security requirements including CIS Benchmarks, DISA STIG guidance, and FIPS 140-3 validated cryptographic environments.
- Delivers standards-based OCI-compatible artifacts without requiring proprietary runtimes, tooling ecosystems, or infrastructure lock-in.
- Integrates seamlessly into Kubernetes and modern cloud-native environments.
How we are different
CleanStart delivers a fundamentally different approach to software supply chain security by combining trusted software foundations, continuous posture visibility, and actionable remediation within a unified platform.
While many traditional solutions focus primarily on detecting vulnerabilities after software artifacts are assembled or deployed, CleanStart establishes trust at the foundation layer through hermetic, reproducible build pipelines and verifiable software provenance. The platform delivers trusted software artifacts including container images, libraries, packages, and ML models designed to reduce inherited risk before software reaches production environments.
Beyond artifact creation, CleanStart provides continuous software supply chain posture management across dependencies, SBOMs, software artifacts, and cloud-native environments. This enables organizations to identify, prioritize, and remediate risks based on software integrity, provenance, exposure, and operational context rather than relying solely on vulnerability counts and fragmented scanner findings.
CleanStart also differentiates itself through its commitment to transparency, interoperability, and operational flexibility. The platform delivers standards-based OCI-compatible artifacts that integrate seamlessly into existing Kubernetes and cloud-native environments without requiring proprietary runtimes, tooling ecosystems, or infrastructure lock-in.
By combining prevention, visibility, governance, and remediation into a single software supply chain security approach, CleanStart helps enterprises move beyond reactive vulnerability management toward verifiable software trust across the entire software lifecycle.
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