The 20 Coolest Cloud Security Companies Of The 2020 Cloud 100
Aqua Security secured a $62 million Series C round in April to help it address the need to secure microservices applications running on containers and serverless infrastructure. It also acquired CloudSploit to help customers monitor their public cloud accounts within minutes and reduce threats due to misconfiguration and vulnerabilities.
Kubernetes Operators: 4 Facts to Know
There’s been a noticeable bump in the interest in and implementation of Operators of late, according to Liz Rice, VP of open source engineering at Aqua Security. Rice also chairs the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s technical oversight committee. “At the CNCF, we’re seeing interest in projects related to managing and discovering Kubernetes Operators, as well as observing an […]
Aqua Security Named Winner in 2019-20 Cloud Awards
International Cloud Computing Awards Program Announces Shortlist BOSTON – January 30, 2020 – Aqua Security, the leading platform provider for securing container-based, serverless and cloud native applications, announced today it has been declared the winner of the Security Innovation of the Year award this week in the international Cloud Computing Awards program, The Cloud Awards. […]
5 Cloud Trends to Watch in 2020
“The cloud-native ecosystem will see further consolidation, with the dominant players solidifying their leadership in the market,” says Rani Osnat, VP of strategy at Aqua Security. “Even for a fast-growing segment, this space can’t contain so many Kubernetes distributions, point solutions, open source projects, et cetera., for a long time.” The IT version of natural selection […]
Find Security Vulnerabilities in Kubernetes Clusters
Aqua Security’s open-source tools, kube-bench and kube-hunter, find security issues in Kubernetes clusters. They differ in their approach to analyzing your security posture within the Kubernetes infrastructure stack. kube-bench focuses on your alignment to the CIS, while kube-hunter looks at vulnerabilities you’re exposing. Together they provide a great view of in terms of determining your compliance and awareness. […]
Serverless Computing: Ready or Not?
From a security perspective, serverless presents a unique challenge. “On the one hand, the risk is limited by the short runtime durations and isolation from the underlying host OS,” notes Rani Osnat, vice president of strategy for security software developer Aqua Security. “On the other hand, functions are often provisioned with too many permissions or with […]
Security Software Reviews, 2019: Lab Tests of Today’s Top Tools
The Aqua Cloud Native Security Platform uses an inherent advantage of containers, the fact that they are always highly specialized for their jobs, to create a cybersecurity structure based on whitelisting.
Network Computing Year in Review
If 2018 was the year of learning about Kubernetes, then 2019 was the year of deploying Kubernetes in production. “Helped by maturing standards and management platforms, such as Red Hat OpenShift and Rancher, as well as managed offerings from AWS (EKS), Azure (AKS), and Google (GKE), many of the global 1000 are now deploying production […]
- Threat Alert: New Attack Vector Targeting Your Cloud Environment February 19, 2020
- Cloud Native Security Best Practices: Using Kubernetes Admission Controller for Image Assurance February 17, 2020
- What You Need to Know About AWS Lambda Functions Risk Mitigation January 30, 2020
- Cloud Native Best Practices: Security Policies in CI/CD Pipelines January 22, 2020
- Threat Alert: Exploiting Open Docker Daemons for DDoS Attacks January 20, 2020
- Announcing General Availability of CloudSploit by Aqua for GCP January 16, 2020