diff --git a/src/confcom/HISTORY.rst b/src/confcom/HISTORY.rst
index 8b11a4655f1..c49117f5864 100644
--- a/src/confcom/HISTORY.rst
+++ b/src/confcom/HISTORY.rst
@@ -2,6 +2,11 @@
 
 Release History
 ===============
+0.2.16
+* adding stop signals as a field that is picked up from image manifest and placed into policy
+* updating --print-existing-policy to print the whole policy
+* refactoring tests to be more portable across releases
+
 0.2.15
 * updating dmverity-vhd interface to be more flexible with output formats
 * bugfix for --print-existing-policy flag with parameter values
diff --git a/src/confcom/azext_confcom/config.py b/src/confcom/azext_confcom/config.py
index a9807cc236c..0dd9104ff9d 100644
--- a/src/confcom/azext_confcom/config.py
+++ b/src/confcom/azext_confcom/config.py
@@ -167,3 +167,39 @@
 DEFAULT_UNPRIVILEGED_CAPABILITIES = _config["default_unprivileged_capabilities"]
 # default priviliged user capabilities to be added for security context
 DEFAULT_PRIVILEGED_CAPABILITIES = _config["default_privileged_capabilities"]
+# these signals are hardcoded because the signals package in python is not portable across platforms
+SIGNALS = {
+    "SIGHUP": 1,
+    "SIGINT": 2,
+    "SIGQUIT": 3,
+    "SIGILL": 4,
+    "SIGTRAP": 5,
+    "SIGABRT": 6,
+    "SIGIOT": 6,
+    "SIGBUS": 7,
+    "SIGFPE": 8,
+    "SIGKILL": 9,
+    "SIGUSR1": 10,
+    "SIGSEGV": 11,
+    "SIGUSR2": 12,
+    "SIGPIPE": 13,
+    "SIGALRM": 14,
+    "SIGTERM": 15,
+    "SIGSTKFLT": 16,
+    "SIGCHLD": 17,
+    "SIGCONT": 18,
+    "SIGSTOP": 19,
+    "SIGTSTP": 20,
+    "SIGTTIN": 21,
+    "SIGTTOU": 22,
+    "SIGURG": 23,
+    "SIGXCPU": 24,
+    "SIGXFSZ": 25,
+    "SIGVTALRM": 26,
+    "SIGPROF": 27,
+    "SIGWINCH": 28,
+    "SIGIO": 29,
+    "SIGPWR": 30,
+    "SIGSYS": 31,
+    "SIGUNUSED": 31
+}
diff --git a/src/confcom/azext_confcom/container.py b/src/confcom/azext_confcom/container.py
index ff6a5955223..33d506dbc67 100644
--- a/src/confcom/azext_confcom/container.py
+++ b/src/confcom/azext_confcom/container.py
@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@
     case_insensitive_dict_get,
     replace_params_and_vars,
     str_to_sha256,
-    process_seccomp_policy
+    process_seccomp_policy,
+    translate_signals
 )
 from azext_confcom import config
 from azext_confcom.errors import eprint
@@ -575,6 +576,10 @@ def get_id(self) -> str:
     def get_working_dir(self) -> str:
         return self._workingDir
 
+    def set_signals(self, signals: List) -> None:
+        signals = translate_signals([signals] if not isinstance(signals, list) else signals)
+        self._signals = signals
+
     def set_working_dir(self, workingDir: str) -> None:
         self._workingDir = workingDir
 
@@ -688,6 +693,7 @@ def _get_mounts_json(self) -> Dict[str, Any]:
         return mounts
 
     def _populate_policy_json_elements(self) -> Dict[str, Any]:
+
         elements = {
             config.POLICY_FIELD_CONTAINERS_ID: self._identifier,
             config.POLICY_FIELD_CONTAINERS_ELEMENTS_LAYERS: self._layers,
diff --git a/src/confcom/azext_confcom/data/internal_config.json b/src/confcom/azext_confcom/data/internal_config.json
index f82165beed9..39bb6c04940 100644
--- a/src/confcom/azext_confcom/data/internal_config.json
+++ b/src/confcom/azext_confcom/data/internal_config.json
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 {
-    "version": "0.2.15",
+    "version": "0.2.16",
     "hcsshim_config": {
         "maxVersion": "1.0.0",
         "minVersion": "0.0.1"
diff --git a/src/confcom/azext_confcom/security_policy.py b/src/confcom/azext_confcom/security_policy.py
index 97f1763073c..cf07ec19930 100644
--- a/src/confcom/azext_confcom/security_policy.py
+++ b/src/confcom/azext_confcom/security_policy.py
@@ -350,6 +350,7 @@ def _policy_serialization(self, pretty_print=False) -> str:
             return pretty_print_func(policy)
         return print_func(policy)
 
+    # pylint: disable=R0914, R0915
     def populate_policy_content_for_all_images(
         self, individual_image=False, tar_mapping=None
     ) -> None:
@@ -432,6 +433,11 @@ def populate_policy_content_for_all_images(
                                 }
                             )
 
+                    # merge signals for user container image
+                    signals = image_info.get("StopSignal")
+                    if signals:
+                        image.set_signals(signals)
+
                     if (deepdiff.DeepDiff(image.get_user(), config.DEFAULT_USER, ignore_order=True) == {}
                             and image_info.get("User") != ""):
                         # valid values are in the form "user", "user:group", "uid", "uid:gid", "user:gid", "uid:group"
diff --git a/src/confcom/azext_confcom/template_util.py b/src/confcom/azext_confcom/template_util.py
index 4bf6efe7289..fdc6e15b299 100644
--- a/src/confcom/azext_confcom/template_util.py
+++ b/src/confcom/azext_confcom/template_util.py
@@ -582,6 +582,13 @@ def is_sidecar(image_name: str) -> bool:
     return image_name.split(":")[0] in config.BASELINE_SIDECAR_CONTAINERS
 
 
+def translate_signals(signals: List[str]) -> List[int]:
+    for i, signal_val in enumerate(signals):
+        if isinstance(signal_val, str) and signal_val.upper() in config.SIGNALS:
+            signals[i] = config.SIGNALS[signal_val.upper()]
+    return signals
+
+
 def compare_env_vars(
     id_val, env_list1: List[Dict[str, Any]], env_list2: List[Dict[str, Any]]
 ) -> Dict[str, List[str]]:
diff --git a/src/confcom/azext_confcom/tests/latest/test_confcom_arm.py b/src/confcom/azext_confcom/tests/latest/test_confcom_arm.py
index d2ec5ff127b..8f63479256d 100644
--- a/src/confcom/azext_confcom/tests/latest/test_confcom_arm.py
+++ b/src/confcom/azext_confcom/tests/latest/test_confcom_arm.py
@@ -5302,4 +5302,142 @@ def test_arm_template_security_context_seccomp_profile_missing_syscalls(self):
             )
         )
 
-        self.assertEqual(regular_image_json[0][config.POLICY_FIELD_CONTAINERS_ELEMENTS_SECCOMP_PROFILE_SHA256], expected_seccomp_profile_sha256)
\ No newline at end of file
+        self.assertEqual(regular_image_json[0][config.POLICY_FIELD_CONTAINERS_ELEMENTS_SECCOMP_PROFILE_SHA256], expected_seccomp_profile_sha256)
+
+
+# @unittest.skip("not in use")
+@pytest.mark.run(order=18)
+class PolicyStopSignal(unittest.TestCase):
+    custom_arm_json = """
+    {
+        "$schema": "https://schema.management.azure.com/schemas/2019-04-01/deploymentTemplate.json#",
+        "contentVersion": "1.0.0.0",
+        "variables": {
+            "image": "nginx:1.24"
+        },
+
+
+        "parameters": {
+            "containergroupname": {
+            "type": "string",
+            "metadata": {
+                "description": "Name for the container group"
+            },
+            "defaultValue":"simple-container-group"
+            },
+
+            "containername": {
+            "type": "string",
+            "metadata": {
+                "description": "Name for the container"
+            },
+            "defaultValue":"simple-container"
+            },
+            "port": {
+            "type": "string",
+            "metadata": {
+                "description": "Port to open on the container and the public IP address."
+            },
+            "defaultValue": "80"
+            },
+            "cpuCores": {
+            "type": "string",
+            "metadata": {
+                "description": "The number of CPU cores to allocate to the container."
+            },
+            "defaultValue": "1.0"
+            },
+            "memoryInGb": {
+            "type": "string",
+            "metadata": {
+                "description": "The amount of memory to allocate to the container in gigabytes."
+            },
+            "defaultValue": "1.5"
+            },
+            "location": {
+            "type": "string",
+            "defaultValue": "[resourceGroup().location]",
+            "metadata": {
+                "description": "Location for all resources."
+            }
+            }
+        },
+        "resources": [
+            {
+            "name": "[parameters('containergroupname')]",
+            "type": "Microsoft.ContainerInstance/containerGroups",
+            "apiVersion": "2022-04-01-preview",
+            "location": "[parameters('location')]",
+            "properties": {
+                "containers": [
+                {
+                    "name": "[parameters('containername')]",
+
+                    "properties": {
+                    "image": "[variables('image')]",
+                    "command": [
+                        "python3"
+                    ],
+                    "ports": [
+                        {
+                        "port": "[parameters('port')]"
+                        }
+                    ],
+                    "resources": {
+                        "requests": {
+                        "cpu": "[parameters('cpuCores')]",
+                        "memoryInGb": "[parameters('memoryInGb')]"
+                        }
+                    }
+
+                }
+                }
+
+                ],
+
+                "osType": "Linux",
+                "restartPolicy": "OnFailure",
+                "confidentialComputeProperties": {
+                "IsolationType": "SevSnp"
+                },
+                "ipAddress": {
+                "type": "Public",
+                "ports": [
+                    {
+                    "protocol": "Tcp",
+                    "port": "[parameters( 'port' )]"
+                    }
+                ]
+                }
+            }
+            }
+        ],
+        "outputs": {
+            "containerIPv4Address": {
+            "type": "string",
+            "value": "[reference(resourceId('Microsoft.ContainerInstance/containerGroups/', parameters('containergroupname'))).ipAddress.ip]"
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    """
+    aci_policy = None
+
+    @classmethod
+    def setUpClass(cls):
+
+        cls.aci_arm_policy = load_policy_from_arm_template_str(cls.custom_arm_json, "")[
+            0
+        ]
+        cls.aci_arm_policy.populate_policy_content_for_all_images()
+
+    def test_stop_signal(self):
+        regular_image_json = json.loads(
+            self.aci_arm_policy.get_serialized_output(
+                output_type=OutputType.RAW, rego_boilerplate=False
+            )
+        )
+        # check for the signal for SIGQUIT. this is part of the nginx image
+        self.assertTrue(
+            3 in
+            regular_image_json[0][config.POLICY_FIELD_CONTAINERS_ELEMENTS_SIGNAL_CONTAINER_PROCESSES]
+        )
diff --git a/src/confcom/setup.py b/src/confcom/setup.py
index be1c5a95f38..f551a70a383 100644
--- a/src/confcom/setup.py
+++ b/src/confcom/setup.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 
     logger.warn("Wheel is not available, disabling bdist_wheel hook")
 
-VERSION = "0.2.15"
+VERSION = "0.2.16"
 
 # The full list of classifiers is available at
 # https://pypi.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=list_classifiers