Our Mission
Fluid Securityat the Speed of DevOps
Setting the Pace for Cloud Native Security
Oct. 2015
Aqua Security was founded (As Scalock)
By Amir Jerbi and Dror Davidoff
2016
May 2016
Aqua annouces Aqua Container Security Platform
General Availability (GA)
Sept. 16
Aqua secures $9M in Series A
Funding led by Microsoft Ventures
Nov. 16
The first KubeCon event
with over 1,100 attendees
2017
March 17
Aqua Opens office in Boston
Placed to Serve Enterprise Customers
July 17
Aqua Joins PCI Security Standards Council
Applying PCI standard to containerized environment
Aug. 17
Aqua Joins the Microsoft Enterprise Cloud Alliance
Sept 2017
Aqua raises $25M in Series B
Led by Lightspeed Venture Partners
Oct. 2017
Aqua 2.6 Delivers Security for Windows Container Applications
Featuring production-ready security for Windows Containers-based applications
Nov. 17
Aqua makes on-demand security scanner available on AWS Marketplace
Aqua's image vulnerability scanner
Nov. 17
Amazon introduces AWS Fargate
For deploying and managing containers
Dec 2017
Launched the first Container Technology Wiki
www.aquasec.com/wiki
2018
March 18
Aqua 3.0 Introduces Kubernetes-Native Enterprise Security Controls
And more than 120 additional features
March 18
Aqua 3.0 delivers runtime security for “Zero infrastructure” CaaS environments
April 18
Aqua's Container Security Platform combines with VMware AppDefense
To secure both containerized and non-containerized components.
June 2018
Aqua Secures Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS)
Providing additional deep security controls that are now available on Amazon EKS
June 2018
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) Reaches GA
Available for use in production and ready to run your existing Kubernetes workloads.
July 2018
Commercial Kubernetes applications in GCP Marketplace
The first major cloud provider to offer production-ready commercial Kubernetes apps on the marketplace
Aug. 18
Aqua releases Kube-hunter
an open source tool for Kubernetes penetration testing
Sept. 2018
Aqua's OSS kube-bench wins InfoWorld's Bossie award
For best open source software
Oct 2018
General availability of Aqua Security for Pivotal Cloud Foundry® (PCF)
As an integrated service for PCF, available from Pivotal Network
Nov 2018
AWS Announces New Container Products in AWS Marketplace
Trusted container products now available in AWS Marketplace and through the Amazon Elastic Container Services (Amazon ECS) console.
Dec 2018
The first KubeSec Enterprise Security Summit
Organized by Aqua Security
2019
March 19
Aqua 4.0 release
Serverless functions assurance and anomaly detection, host OS security and compliance
April 19
Aqua Closes $62M in Funding
Led by Insight Partners
May 19
KubeSec 2019
The Kubernetes Enterprise Summit
The Kubernetes Enterprise Summit
Hosted by Aqua, AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure and Red Hat
May 19
Aqua Security Attains VMware PKS Partner Application Program Validation
June 19
Aqua 4.2: Vulnerability Shield™ for Automatic Detection and Blocking Attempts to Exploit Container Vulnerabilities
And advanced runtime protection for serverless functions, using the new Aqua NanoEnforcer technology.
July 2019
Aqua Security Named Best Security Company of the Year
at the Annual Cyber Security Awards 2019
July 2019
Aqua Security Recognized on CRN’s 2019 Emerging Vendors List
August 2019
Trivy Vulnerability Scanners Joins the Aqua Family
September 2019
Aqua Security Named a SINET 16 Innovator
for 2019
October 2019
BeerSecOps Podcast First Episode
Dev, Sec, Ops and everything in between
November 2019
KubeSec Enterprise Summit 2019
in San Diego
November 2019
Aqua acquires CloudSploit
Expanding into Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)
November 2019
Tracee Open Source Project opens
2020
January 2020
Aqua Security Named Winner in 2019-20 Cloud Awards
Security Innovation of the Year award winner in the international Cloud Computing Awards program
January 2020
Cloudsploit by Aqua for GCP
General Availability
February 2020
Amir Jerbi named CTO of the Year
16th Annual 2020 Info Security PG’s Global Excellence Awards®
February 2020
Aqua named as a Hot Security Technology of the Year
awarded by Info Security PG
February 2020
Aqua named as one of the Coolest Cloud Security Companies
CRN 100 Coolest Cloud Company 2020
March 2020
Trivy Under Apache 2.0 License
Open Source Vulnerability Scanner
March 2020
Trivy Vulnerability Scanner Integrates with leading Cloud Native Platforms
Harbor Registry and Mirantis Docker Enterprise
April 2020
Aqua's Dynamic Threat Analysis (DTA)
Sandbox for Containers
May 2020
Aqua Security Raises $30 Million in Series D Funding
Fueling the Expansion of Its Cloud Native Security Platform
May 2020
KubeSec Enterprise Goes Online
kubesec.aquasec.com/enterprise_online_series
July 2020
Aqua announces Aqua SaaS and Aqua CSPM
Securing the Build, Infrastructure, and Workloads of Cloud Native Applications
August 2020
Aqua Extends its Alliance with Red Hat
Bringing Cloud Native Security to the Red Hat Marketplace
October 2020
Aqua Security Wins “Enterprise CyberSecurity Solution of the Year” Award
CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards Program
October 2020
Aqua Security Announces Aqua KSPM
Kubernetes security posture management (KSPM) defends K8s-based applications against multiple threats
2021
January 2021
Hot 150 Cybersecurity Companies To Watch In 2021
Cybersecurity150.com
March 2021
$135M in Round E Funding
Led by ION Crossover Partners
How It All Started
Aqua Security was founded in 2015, as containers and serverless technologies were just emerging, recognizing that the dramatic change in application development and architecture requires an equally dramatic shift in security.
“We help our customers create applications that are secure by design, enabling agile DevOps and hybrid cloud deployment with no compromise on security or compliance.”
Amir Jerbi
Co-Founder, CTO
“The adoption of cloud native technologies provides an opportunity for security to be redefined, addressing the chronic cyber security skills gap through automation.”
Dror Davidoff
Co-Founder, CEO
Our Investors
Shlomo Kramer
Co-founder, Check Point Software & Imperva, Co-founder & CEO, Cato Networks
Community and Market Leadership
Liz Rice Co-Chairing CNCF’s KubeCon + CloudNativeCon events
Industry Recognition
CRN Emerging Vendors 2020 Security Vendor
Info Security Products Guide Global Excellence
