diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 328dde5..3214e17 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ FROM ubuntu:18.04
 
 RUN  apt-get update 
 RUN  apt-get install -y wget
+RUN  apt-get install -y curl
 
 COPY entrypoint.sh /entrypoint.sh
 
diff --git a/entrypoint.sh b/entrypoint.sh
index be2c410..26d1f2f 100644
--- a/entrypoint.sh
+++ b/entrypoint.sh
@@ -1,8 +1,16 @@
 #!/bin/sh -l
 
+tag=`curl --silent "https://api.github.com/repos/Checkmarx/kics/releases/latest" | grep '"tag_name":' | sed -E 's/.*"([^"]+)".*/\1/'`
+
+echo 'latest tag is' $tag
+
+version=`echo $tag | sed -r 's/^.{1}//'`
+
+echo 'version is' $version
+
 echo "Downloading latest kics binaries"
 
-wget -c https://github.com/Checkmarx/kics/releases/latest/download/kics_1.0.0_linux_x64.tar.gz -O - | tar -xz
+wget -c "https://github.com/Checkmarx/kics/releases/download/${tag}/kics_${version}_linux_x64.tar.gz" -O - | tar -xz
 
 echo "about to scan directory" $INPUT_DIRECTORY