Acronym glossary

Term Meaning

ACS

Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security

Conforma / ec

Enterprise Contract CLI for signature and attestation policy

ESO

External Secrets Operator

Fulcio / Rekor / TUF

Certificate authority, transparency log, and trust root pieces used by Trusted Artifact Signer

GAV

Maven groupId:artifactId:version coordinate

Hummingbird

Red Hat Hardened Images runtime base

Lightwell Network

Post-disclosure membership model for remediated and validated libraries

Clearinghouse Premier

Limited-availability model that reuses the same proxy, pin, and evidence controls

.rhlw-*

Version suffix for a Lightwell security-only rebuild on an upstream line

RHBK

Red Hat build of Keycloak (demo identity on this hub; does not sign images)

RHDA

Red Hat Dependency Analytics

RHTAS

Red Hat Trusted Artifact Signer

RHTPA / TPA

Red Hat Trusted Profile Analyzer

SBOM

Software Bill of Materials (CycloneDX on this hub)

TSSC

Trusted software supply chain

VEX

Vulnerability Exploitability eXchange advisory bound to a component