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Implementing continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) platforms brings the advantages of rapid and frequent software release cycles, but it necessitates robust security measures, particularly in container image creation and deployment. Scanning Docker images during the CI stage is crucial for identifying security vulnerabilities early, allowing developers to address issues before deployment. Aqua Security enhances container, serverless, and cloud-native application security across all platforms by integrating with tools like Codefresh, offering an automated image scanning step to detect vulnerabilities, malware, and configuration issues. This integration allows the enforcement of flexible security policies, differentiating between various application types and environments, and provides feedback directly within the CI environment to ensure that non-compliant images are addressed promptly. By setting policies to either alert or fail non-compliant builds, Aqua Security helps prevent security issues from reaching staging environments and enables blocking of non-compliant images across Kubernetes clusters, thus integrating multiple security checkpoints into the CI/CD process.