# Chainguard Images are the Gold Standard for PCI DSS v4.0

DevFeed: [Chainguard Images are the Gold Standard for PCI DSS v4.0](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/chainguard-images-are-the-gold-standard-for-pci-dss-v4-0-12954.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.chainguard.dev/unchained/chainguard-images-are-the-gold-standard-for-pci-dss-v4-0>)

Published: 2025-02-03T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Chainguard: Unchained](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/chainguard-unchained.md>)

Topics: [chainguard images](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/chainguard-images.md>), [container-security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/container-security.md>), [Containers](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/containers.md>), [supply-chain-security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/supply-chain-security.md>), [vulnerability management](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/vulnerability-management.md>)

Tags: [chainguard](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/chainguard.md>), [chainguard-images](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/chainguard-images.md>), [chainguard-sboms](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/chainguard-sboms.md>), [compliance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/compliance.md>), [container](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/container.md>), [container-image](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/container-image.md>), [container-image-compliance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/container-image-compliance.md>), [container-images](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/container-images.md>), [container-security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/container-security.md>), [containers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/containers.md>), [cryptography](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cryptography.md>), [financial](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/financial.md>), [pci-dss](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pci-dss.md>), [pci-dss-v4-0](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pci-dss-v4-0.md>), [sboms](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sboms.md>), [software-bill-of-materials](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software-bill-of-materials.md>), [software-composition-analysis](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software-composition-analysis.md>), [software-supply-chain](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software-supply-chain.md>), [stig](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/stig.md>), [vulnerability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vulnerability.md>), [vulnerability-management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vulnerability-management.md>)

## AI overview

The article explains how Chainguard Images can support selected PCI DSS v4.0 container-security controls. It focuses on asset and vulnerability management, hardened images, FIPS cryptography, build-time SBOMs, software supply chain inventory, and continuously updated containers.

## Source excerpt

Chainguard Images are designed to make container image compliance for PCI DSS v4.0 easy for any company involved in card transactions.