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Aqua won the Silver award for Startup of the Year by Information Security Products Guide. Cyber Defense Magazine named the Aqua Container Security Platform the Most Innovative Application Security Solution for 2017. SDx Central, the premier media outlet for news, analysis and research on software-defined infrastructure named Aqua on of “9 Security Startups Worth Watching in 2017,” the second honor it has bestowed on the company in the past nine months.

Formerly known as Scalock, container security company Aqua supports and secures containers from Docker, CoreOS, Microsoft, and VMware. Aqua’s Container Security Platform is able to track a container’s status throughout its lifecycle.

The open-source Vault project is another effort that provides secrets management and is currently also integrated with the Aqua Container Security Platform 2.0 update that was released on Feb. 2.

Container Security Platform 2.0 release aims to help further segment application container traffic and adds new support for secrets management.

“Traditional host-based security agents don’t understand containers and lack the context to enforce different policies on different containers in the same host.” notes Neil MacDonald, VP Distinguished Analyst at Gartner Research, “Depending on the network architecture used, container-to-container traffic within a physical host may not be visible to external network firewalls and intrusion detection and prevention systems.”

Aqua Security, provider of the leading platform for securing containerized applications, today announced the release of version 2.0 of its Container Security Platform (CSP). Aqua CSP Version 2.0 features automated nano-segmentation of container network traffic, cross-platform secrets management, and sensitive data discovery. Other enhancements include management by labels, integration with Atlassian Jira, and large-scale vulnerability scanning.

Aqua’s CTO Amir Jerbi suggests some key things DevOps should know about securing containerized applications.