Minimus launches secure helm charts, integrated compliance dashboards

Robust new features for regulated industries come as the company celebrates over 1,200 users in first 90 days.

BATON ROUGE, La., Aug. 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Minimus, the container security company eliminating software vulnerabilities before they exist, today announced a major product release designed to accelerate compliance, improve security visibility, and streamline secure software delivery at scale.

Just three months after launching on April 28, Minimus has already surpassed 1,100 users across commercial and public sector organizations. Founded by the team behind Twistlock and the authors of NIST SP 800-190, Minimus radically reduces risk by replacing bloated container images with secure, minimal ones — cutting CVEs by over 95%.

This latest release introduces four new capabilities that deepen Minimus' value to Dev, Ops, and Security teams:

• Integrated VEX (Vulnerability Exploitability eXchange) Support
  
  In addition to a cryptographically signed SBOM for every image, Minimus now publishes VEX data for every image within the image gallery, simplifying integration with other tools and making it easy to see what risks remain in any given container image.
  
  
• New Compliance Dashboards and Views
  
  Government agencies and enterprises in regulated industries trust Minimus' secure images to help them align with standards like FedRAMP, PCI, CIS, and NIST SP 800-190. Building atop Minimus' application-specific hardening, Minimus customers can now view at an image level - or across their environment - the specific compliance regimes and controls image configurations are mapped to. These dashboards can be easily viewed or exported for use in audit activities.
  
  
• Hardened Helm Charts for Secure Deployment
  
  Go from secure images to secure deployments with Minimus' hardened helm charts. Reflecting best practices for Kubernetes security, aligned to CIS and NIST benchmarks, Minimus helm charts simplify configuration of secure microservice deployments - making it faster than ever to run containers securely in production. Minimus' charts are fully supported in the product with a complete gallery experience for browsing the offering and viewing chart details.
  
  
• Integration with Microsoft for Single Sign-On (SSO)
  
  Enterprises can now integrate Minimus directly with Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD), enabling secure, centralized authentication and streamlining access control.

"We've seen over 1,000 users adopt Minimus in just our first few months — and many of them are in regulated environments where proving compliance is just as critical as reducing risk," said John Morello, CTO & Co-Founder at Minimus. "This release makes it dramatically easier for those teams to show how their workloads align with FedRAMP, PCI, CIS, and NIST controls — and to deploy them securely using hardened Helm charts built with real-world operational experience in mind."

Minimus will be live at Black Hat USA — stop by booth 4608 to see the platform in action, meet the team, and enter to win our next big giveaway. Can't attend? Visit minimus.io to schedule a demo and see how Minimus can help you eliminate vulnerabilities before they exist.

About Minimus
Founded in October 2022 by Ben Bernstein, Dima Stopel, and John Morello, Minimus radically reduces cloud software vulnerabilities. As the pioneers of container security with Twistlock and author of NIST SP 800-190, Minimus solves the endless treadmill of cloud software vulnerabilities by simply preventing 95% of them from ever existing.

Minimus builds images from scratch, directly from upstream project sources, with only the minimal software needed to run the app, dramatically reducing their attack surface. Minimus images are drop-in replacements for the apps organizations are already using and are deployed with single line configuration file changes, providing nearly instant time to value. Minimus eliminates time consuming and low value remediation work for devs, is easy for ops to deploy and manage using their existing tools, and provides security with remarkably clear risk reduction. Minimus raised a $51M seed round from YL Ventures and Mayfield.

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