Your container images are unsigned. In the AI era, that’s a ticking time bomb.
The New Stack Uma Sridharan
Amazon ECR Managed Signing was introduced to address how unsigned container images leave organizations unable to cryptographically prove image origin or prevent tampering in AI-era delivery pipelines. It uses AWS Signer with a default signature validity of 135 months and signs a Notary payload that binds the image manifest digest to an identity. With registry-backed signing plus Kubernetes enforcement (e.g., Kyverno/Gatekeeper/Ratify), unsigned or untrusted images are blocked from running and compromised signer identities can be revoked to stop trust fleetwide.
Why it matters
Most organizations that know they should sign their images still don’t. Not because they disagree, but because the path to The post Your container images are unsigned. In the AI era, that’s a ticking time bomb. appeared first on The New Stack.