The Good Tech Companies - Revolutionizing Edge Security: The GuardDog AI and Red Hat UBI Partnership

Episode Date: October 16, 2025

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/revolutionizing-edge-security-the-guarddog-ai-and-red-hat-ubi-partnership. As enterprises push deeper into AI-driven automation, distributed edge, and multi-cloud orchestration, container foundation becomes strategic, not tactical. Check more stories related to machine-learning at: https://hackernoon.com/c/machine-learning. You can also check exclusive content about #agentic-ai, #multicloud-strategy, #ai-tools, #ai-remediation-agents, #edge-computing-security, #aws-containers, #kubernetes-security, #good-company, and more. This story was written by: @guarddogai. Learn more about this writer by checking @guarddogai's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. GuardDog AI has certified its Complete Sensor on the Red Hat Universal Base Image. The base image couples developer freedom with enterprise-grade security, lifecycle, and support. With this certification, GuardDog AI can build and distribute Red Hat–based containers freely.

This audio is presented by Hacker Noon, where anyone can learn anything about any technology. Revolutionizing Edge Security, the Guard Dog AI and Red Hat UBI Partnership. By Guard Dog AI, Inc., we often hear about supply chains and how critical such systems are for a well-functioning economy and society. Containers are your software supply chain, workloads span data centers, clouds, and distributed edges, blurring the definition of what the edge really is, making it more ubiquitous than we think, which results in enterprises no longer operating within neat boundaries. In hybrid and edge architectures, the wrong base image multiplies risk, licensing friction, patch drift, and support gaps right at the exact moment when reliability and security matter most.

That's why at Guard Dog AI we built and certified our complete sensor on the Red Hat universal base image, and not by chance, as UBI is the foundation that couples developer freedom with enterprise-grade security, life-cycle, and support. We're after zero friction, zero guesswork, security, enterprise trust, scalability, reliability, toil reduction, and life-cycle assurance that enterprises demand. This complexity is exhilarating, and with UBI, we deliver net only all of the above but also the portability and assurance enterprises demand. This decision wasn't accidental. It was very much intentional. Let's unpack why. Introduction we have been hard at work and and have gone through a very interesting journey taking us from having our own hardware unit

where our solution was uniquely and exclusively deployed on, to supporting virtual machines, to having our own OCI compliant container, and now based on Red Hat UBI, which sums up all the work we have done so far, and puts us at the top layers of the pyramid on how we engineered our product building upon existing layers. What it is and why with this certification, Guard Dog AI can build and distribute Red Hat-based containers freely, with the option to unlock full Red Hat support when deployed and licensed Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Red Hat OpenShift. Guard Dog AI's certification of its complete sensor with Red Hat UBI helps ensure that enterprises can deploy cybersecurity seamlessly across containerized ecosystems without retooling

and with the bonus of reducing toil, which one would definitely have to account for when implementing other solutions. Red Hat UBI is a freely redistributable container-based image built from Red Hat sources. Teams can develop and share freely, when those can containers run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Red Hat OpenShift, they're covered by Red Hat's production support, sharing the same CVE streams, errata, and tooling operation steams already trust. Filled circle signals of momentum. Docker hub usage of UBI has grown significantly. UBI images are being pulled millions of times monthly with a 2.6 increase over the span of a year. On community forums, users note that UBI makes a good base image in pipelines, even if not always

visible on public registries. Filled Circle Enterprise Content Parity. UBI inherits the hardening, performance characteristics, and component reliability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. So No More, Community v. prod, split brain. Field Circle security lifecycle, containers tap into Red Hat's CVE patching and Aerotap pipeline, so remediation flows the same way it does for the OS. Field Circle redistribution freedom brings support on demand.

Build and share without subscription gates. Get full Red Hat support when running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat OpenShift. For us, this means seamless, certified integration. Guard Dog's sensor uses Red Hat UBI as the base image, enabling placement in the Red Hat ecosystem catalog and compatibility with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat OpenShift, and Red Hat supported runtimes. Security and patch consistency. By aligning to Red Hat UBI, the sensor inherits type.

or patch cycles and reduces vulnerability management toil for platform and security L teams. Simplified adoption and portability, production-grade support. Running on Red Hat platforms unlocks full production support routes, tickets, tooling, insights integration, and policy-aligned images, SC Linux enforced, a critical ingredient for regulated industries and compliance programs. For the stakeholders, build once, deploy consistently across Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat OpenShift, multi-cloud and edge. Language-specific UBI runtime images accelerate app delivery. For enterprises, consistency across on-prem, cloud, and edge with a single, trusted base. Lifecycle assurance with predictable patches, clear SBOM lineage, and sub-portability.

Seeneless updates through Red Hat's errata and insights, minimizing drift. Compliance alignment. Hardened, S.E. Linux enforced images that support frameworks, E.G. FedRamp aligned environments. without DIY hardening. Certification translates into trust and supported containers that reduce risk for partners and resellers, access to Red Hat's ecosystem and catalog. Joint service opportunities built on trust. Offer a catalog listed, Red Hat certified Guard Dog container as part of managed or integrated solutions. Create service revenue around hybrid edge security backed by Red Hat certification. Easier integration into stack offerings. Align with Guard Dog's certification program for GoTo Marketing Abelment, opens new revenue streams. Support is the

missing piece in container security tooling catches threats. Support keeps the business running. With UBI on Red Hat platforms, your containers inherit production grade support not community best effort. Red Hat Insights helps surface misconfigurations and vulnerabilities early, enabling proactive remediation. Policy alignment is simpler. Hardened images, SELinics and consistent build provenance make audits faster and drift rarer. This shared support model means you aren't stitching together unsupported images across clusters. You're running a certified, enterprise-backed stack from base image to platform. Patterns that win. Guard Dog plus Red Hat across all infrastructures this all-encompassing strategy we put together allows for multiple

offerings that cater to not only existing Red Hat customers, but also non-customers that may be looking for a mature solution to do away with all the overhead needed to implement the foundation of a well-built secure stack. Guard Dog support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux at the edge. Lightweight security at the far edge where bandwidth and hands-on ops are limited. Guard dog support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Deployable security container on the full version of the well-known operating system. Guard dog support for Red Hat OpenShift multi-cloud deployments. Uniform bar trails across a WS, Azure, Google Cloud, and on-prem clusters. IOT plus agentless security, protect unmanaged and semi-managed devices often out of reach

of traditional endpoint agents. With all this, we target rapid attack containment with minimal operational toil and industry-leading vulnerability assessment, which is purpose built for distributed and containerized estates. Build on trust, move at the speed of business Red Hat and Guard Dog AI are both well-recognized brands you can trust. choice is more than a certification badge, it is a commitment to unsaying yesto trust, scale, empowerment, security, and a production-ready solution that offers consistency across every environment out there while reducing toil, keeping it agentless, and providing an autonomous

real-time defense designed for modern distributed infrastructures. As enterprises push deeper into AI-driven automation, distributed edge, and multi-cloud orchestration, the choice of container foundation becomes strategic, not tactical. We have now gone over a myriad of reasons why it made sense for Guard Dog A.I. To make the move to Red Hat UBI, and why any other ISV should not think twice about building their applications on top of UBI as the base image. If this does not make the case for business, engineering, sales, partners, customers, vendors, and providers, then I don't know what will. In collaboration with Red Hat, Guard Dog AI delivers the enterprise-grade cybersecurity backbone needed to secure workloads from the data center to the far edge, without slowing business

innovation. Let's build the future together. Learn more. HTTPS colon slash guard dog. I. Red Hat. I Red Hat. 24, March 19th. Introducing Red Hat universal base image. Red Hat. Https.com N. Blog. Introducing Red Hat Universal Base image. E. Red Hat. N. D. Building, Running, and managing containers. Characteristics off UBI images. Assembly types of container images. In Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 documentation, Red Hat HTPPS colon slash slash docs. Red Hat.com. N. Documentation. Red underscore had underscore enterprise underscore Linux 8 HTML single building underscore running underscore and underscore managing underscore containers index hashcon underscore characteristics dash of dash U by images

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