Partnership, Momentum, and the Future of Software Supply Chain Security

It's been an incredible few months at Root. We've integrated with Aikido for complete supply chain security, delivered customer success stories from defense contractors to privacy leaders, achieved SOC 2 compliance ahead of schedule, and built partnerships with industry leaders who share our vision of collaborative security.

Today, I'm excited to announce our integration with Trivy - and what this partnership represents about Root's momentum and our vision for the future of container security.

Root + Trivy: When Open Source Meets Intelligent Remediation

Trivy is the world's most widely used open-source vulnerability scanner, trusted by over 20 million developers. It embodies the best of open source: transparent, independent, community-driven, and free from vendor lock-in.

But here's the question every Trivy user faces: what happens after the scan?

Trivy brilliantly identifies vulnerabilities, but fixing them still means weeks of manual patching, risky container rebuilds, and hoping you don't break something in production.

Our integration changes this completely. Vulnerabilities detected by Trivy can now be remediated automatically by Root's intelligent patching system - turning weeks of manual work into minutes of automated fixes while preserving your application integrity.

The Market Reality: Complexity vs. Simplicity

Today's container security landscape creates unnecessary friction. Pricing opacity forces lengthy enterprise negotiations. High minimum commitments create barriers for smaller teams. Container rebuilding approaches risk breaking functionality and require extensive engineering cycles.

Root's mission is enabling every organization to achieve secure, compliant software, regardless of size or resources. Our agentic vulnerability remediation democratizes enterprise-grade security - accessible for growing teams, sophisticated for enterprises. With intelligent patching that preserves functionality while eliminating vulnerabilities, organizations can deploy fixes confidently without traditional weeks of testing.

Technical Integration: How It Actually Works

The Root + Trivy integration operates seamlessly within your existing workflows.

Step 1: Trivy Detection Integration
Trivy scan results automatically trigger Root's analysis with zero pipeline disruption.

Step 2: Intelligent Patch Generation
While solutions introduce overhauls and migrations that can break functionality, Root's AI creates precise, CVE-specific patches that preserve your application integrity. Instead of rebuilding your entire container, Root identifies exactly what needs to change and makes only those changes.

Step 3: Seamless Container Updates
Remediated containers are automatically pushed to your existing registry infrastructure, ready for deployment.

The result: Trivy continues comprehensive detection, Root handles intelligent remediation, and you keep building without disruption.

Our Philosophy: Enhance, Don't Replace

The Trivy partnership represents our broader vision of "Agentic Security" - autonomous systems that enhance existing tools rather than replacing them.

We're on a mission to fix all of open source, and for the first time in history, agentic AI makes this possible. Instead of asking teams to abandon tools they trust, we enhance the scanners and workflows already in place.

At Root, security should make your existing workflows better, not force you to change them. Every partnership follows the same principle - intelligent patching, platform independence, and respect for your technology choices. Root's agentic vulnerability remediation works through Trivy, Aikido, and the tools developers actually use.

We're already working on additional scanner integrations, registry partnerships for seamless automation, and CI/CD platform integrations that create helpful security gates.

Real Customer Impact

The validation comes from transformational customer results. SixWorks' engineering team reclaimed weeks of time previously spent on manual CVE remediation, going from 2-3 weeks to 2-3 minutes per vulnerability fix. Their developers now focus on building advanced defense systems instead of researching vulnerability fixes.

BigID reclaimed 20-30% of sprint time previously allocated to security-related validation, with 15+ hours returned weekly for feature development while their security team shifts from vulnerability triage to strategic security architecture.

DeleteMe reclaimed hundreds of engineering hours annually while achieving zero critical/high CVEs across their entire container fleet in just two weeks, allowing their team to focus on privacy innovation instead of vulnerability management and accelerating their FedRAMP pursuit.

This is the power of agentic security: it transforms how organizations approach security work. Developers build features instead of researching patches. Security teams focus on architecture instead of playing whack-a-mole with CVEs. The overall security posture improves while engineering velocity increases.

Looking Ahead

The past few months have transformed Root from a startup with a vision to a company with proven results and expanding partnerships. The Trivy integration proves that leading security companies can create more customer value through strategic collaboration than platform competition.

Whether you're using Trivy, evaluating container security options, or building complementary tools, Root offers intelligent patching, platform independence, and respect for your existing technology choices.

You can start free with our Community tier for up to 3 container images. Book a demo to watch Trivy + Root fix real vulnerabilities in minutes. And if you're building security tools, let's discuss ecosystem collaboration.

Fix fast. Build faster. That's Root.

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