Aqua News

BOSTON –  May 6, 2021 – Aqua Security, the pure-play cloud native security leader, today announced the appointment of Sharon Eilon as Chief Customer Officer to support its growing base of global customers and Aqua’s commitment to customer success. Eilon will be based in the company’s U.S. headquarters in Burlington, MA. Eilon will be responsible for global customer delivery, including management of the […]

Here’s a roundup of the latest cloud native industry news for you. Kubernetes continues to rapidly evolve, and the new version 1.21 has just been released – in our blog, we review the notable features and updates you should know about. If you’re into eBPF technology, there’s a great write-up on how to get started with bpf and libbpfgo. The […]

“I am proud of what the Aqua team has accomplished in five short years. We delivered on our vision and have a clear direction forward to provide the best platform for cloud native security. We’ve shown that our research and development teams are ahead of the market with the launch of innovative products such as […]

ARM is increasing its footprint in the Cloud Native space and Edge computing. Companies are able to run high density, work intensive workloads on a single instance of AWS Graviton 2 at about 30% cost, making it efficient and cost-effective. Edge is already an ARM playground. With Apple’s M1 chip, there is now renewed interest […]

Scans images for vulnerabilities within your CI pipeline Trivy, by Aqua Security, is a simple vulnerability scanner for containers and other artifacts. It can scan container images, Git repositories, and file systems to catch vulnerabilities within OS packages and programming-language dependencies. Trivy is also designed to be used within a CI/CD process to scan for vulnerabilities before sending to a container […]

Cyber attacks on cloud systems jumped a staggering 250% from 2019 to 2020. Aqua Security’s 2020 Cloud-Native Threat Report, which analyzed 16,371 attacks that occurred between June 2019 and July 2020 using honeypot servers, showed that most attacks were targeted to use the cloud for deploying crypto-mining malware and not corporate espionage, or other types […]

Rani Osnat, VP Strategy at the cloud security platform company Aqua Security, writes about getting started with your cloud native security. There are many benefits to a cloud native approach, and it is easy to see why organisations are choosing to go down this route for most, if not all, of their new applications. Cloud native […]

Aqua Security — a cloud-native security leader — announced it has completed a $135 million Series E round of funding led by ION Crossover Partners, putting Aqua’s valuation in excess of $1 Billion. And the funding round included broad participation from Aqua’s existing investors, including M12 (Microsoft’s venture fund), Lightspeed Venture Partners, Insight Partners, TLV […]