FIPS 140-3 Certification

This image is FIPS-validated to ensure its cryptographic operations meet the Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) required for secure government and regulated environments. Its core cryptographic modules are validated under the NIST Cryptographic Module Validation Program (CMVP) and comply with the FIPS 140-3 standard.

To verify that the FIPS 140-3 provider is configured and active, follow the instructions in the FIPS compliance tab.

Try It Out

Take the Minimus Falcoctl-FIPS image for a test run by looking up its version information:

docker run --rm \
reg.mini.dev/falcoctl-fips version

You will see the version information, for example Client Version: 0.11.2.

We will register the official Falco Security index from https://falcosecurity.github.io/falcoctl/index.yaml so we can install Falco rules and plugins.

The Minimus container runs by default so we will need to pre-create the host directories before mounting them to ensure the container has the required write permissions.

Otherwise, Docker will create the directories during the run command and only a root user will be able to access them but not the container's user.

mkdir falcoctl
mkdir falcoctl-cache

Depending on our host default permissions, we may need to give user 1000 write permissions to the directories. You can skip this step and come back to it if you get an error such as ERROR unable to write config file: ... permission denied:

sudo chown 1000:1000 falcoctl
sudo chown 1000:1000 falcoctl-cache

Run the container, mount the directories, and register the index:

docker run --rm \
-v  ./falcoctl-cache:/home/falcoctl/.config/falcoctl \
-v ./falcoctl:/etc/falcoctl \
reg.mini.dev/falcoctl-fips index add falcosecurity https://falcosecurity.github.io/falcoctl/index.yaml

We should get a success message such as:

INFO  Adding index
  ├ name: falcosecurity
  └ path: https://falcosecurity.github.io/falcoctl/index.yaml
INFO  Index successfully added 

Technical Considerations

The Falcoctl-FIPS image provided by Minimus is a FIPS-validated, slim, security-hardened alternative to the public image from Docker Hub. The images are largely interchangeable, with a few differences as noted below.

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