From golden images to agent governance, Chainguard Assemble 2026 focused on how teams can reduce risk by embedding trust, compliance, and security into delivery systems.

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Chainguard Assemble 2026 brought together ~400 security practitioners in New York to discuss the shift from reactive patching to proactive, factory-style security. Key themes included: treating golden images as a scalable operating model for consistency and compliance; embedding security into developer workflows rather than bolting it on post-delivery; the NASA use case demonstrating continuous compliance authorization at mission-critical scale; and the growing need to govern non-human identities (AI agents, automated workflows) with the same rigor as human actors. The overarching message: as AI accelerates software production beyond human review speed, trust must be a verifiable property of systems—anchored in cryptographic authenticity, provenance, and reproducible builds—not just vendor promises.

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