This article evaluates ten leading container scanning tools for 2025, focusing on their ability to detect vulnerabilities across base images, dependencies, and configurations. Learn the importance of integrating container security into your broader application security strategies and DevSecOps tooling.
Containers have revolutionized how software is built, shipped, and deployed—but they’ve also introduced new risks. Every base image, open source library, and configuration file in your container ecosystem can expose critical vulnerabilities. That’s why container scanning tools are now essential for any serious application security strategy.
We’ve ranked the top container scanning tools for 2025 based on accuracy, integration capabilities, and real-world risk coverage. Leading the list is Invicti, the only solution that embeds container security into a full DAST-first platform to give you the big picture—and show which vulnerabilities carry the biggest risk.
Invicti incorporates Container Security powered by Mend.io, but it isn’t just a container scanner—it’s a complete application security platform. Designed for enterprise-scale DevSecOps teams, Invicti makes container security one part of its broader, DAST-first approach. That means every container scan is contextualized within the real, running state of your applications.
By embedding container scanning into a broader dynamic security platform, Invicti helps security teams eliminate noise, streamline DevSecOps workflows, and scale real-world risk reduction.
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Snyk is a developer-centric security platform known for its ease of use and tight CI/CD integrations. Its container scanning tool checks for vulnerabilities in Docker images and helps enforce base image policies.
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Trivy is an open-source container scanner by Aqua Security. It’s fast, lightweight, and supports a wide range of artifacts, including Docker, Kubernetes, and IaC templates.
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Prisma Cloud offers container scanning as part of a comprehensive cloud-native security platform. It focuses on security posture and runtime protection across Kubernetes and cloud environments.
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Anchore provides SBOM-driven container scanning, policy enforcement, and compliance features. Anchore Engine and Grype are its core scanning tools, useful in CI/CD environments.
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Part of the broader Qualys Cloud Platform, this tool scans container images in registries and runtimes. It’s primarily suited for compliance-heavy environments.
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JFrog Xray scans containers and software artifacts for vulnerabilities and license issues. It integrates closely with JFrog Artifactory and other DevOps tools.
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Tenable offers container scanning through its Nessus Pro and Tenable.cs products, focusing on security assessments for image registries and cloud workloads.
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Docker Scout is Docker’s native vulnerability scanning tool, based on Snyk technology. It offers real-time insights into image risk and recommendations for base image upgrades.
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Sysdig offers runtime security and image scanning as part of its Kubernetes-native security suite. It focuses on detecting container drift and behavioral anomalies.
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Most container scanning tools stop at finding vulnerabilities at the container level. Invicti goes further by confirming which of those vulnerabilities are actually exploitable in production apps. As part of a DAST-first platform, Invicti correlates container, SCA, and application-layer security testing data to surface only the risks that matter.
With unified dashboards, CI/CD integration, and proof-based validation, Invicti empowers security teams to secure containers, APIs, and apps from a single platform without slowing developers down.
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Tools like Trivy or Snyk are effective for early-stage scanning, while Invicti stands out by giving enterprise teams full-surface visibility—from containers to running apps—on a scalable, unified platform.
Container security is more than a checklist. It’s a foundational layer in modern application security—and Invicti delivers it as part of a platform built to scale, validate, and empower your AppSec team.
Schedule a demo to see how Invicti helps you reduce container risk with less noise, more proof, and full integration into your existing workflows.