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Aqua uses a layered security approach to keep containers safe… The layered approach starts with running the container application images in learning mode, usually during functional testing. In the learning mode, Aqua examines a container’s behavior in the application context and uses that to set granular runtime parameters, based on which files, executables and network connections a container is using.

Fortune 500 Beta Customers Validate Aqua’s Multilayered Approach to Protecting Software Containers Against Internal and External Threats Tel Aviv, Israel and San Francisco, CA –May 18, 2016 – Aqua Security™ (formerly named Scalock) today announced the company’s formal launch and General Availability of the Aqua Container Security Platform, the industry’s most comprehensive solution for securing …

The very features of containers that make them so cost-effective and easy to use, also bring about a new set of security challenges. Containers are vulnerable to cyber attacks in three main ways:

This audience also cares about container security, which aims to address kernel exploits, breakouts, compromised secrets and poisoned images. Innovators to watch in this space include Scalock & Twistlock and of course, the big boys – Docker Content Trust and CoreOs Tectonic.