Aqua News

BOSTON – July 12, 2021 – Aqua Security, the pure-play cloud native security leader, today announced the acquisition of tfsec, an open source security scanner for Infrastructure as Code (IaC). The acquisition brings an immediate integration of tfsec into Aqua Trivy, adding IaC security scanning capabilities, with additional Aqua platform integrations planned later this year. Tfsec’s co-founders will join Aqua following the acquisition. “Tfsec is the known leader in Terraform code scanning, and we’re thrilled to bring its capabilities and intelligence under Aqua’s open source and commercial umbrella,” said Amir Jerbi, CTO and co-founder …

BOSTON – June 22, 2021 – Aqua Security, the pure-play cloud native security leader, today announces that Aqua Trivy is now the default open source container scanner for GitLab Container Scanning functionality. Customers can now automatically scan the GitLab CI pipeline container artifacts for OS package vulnerabilities. This change will take place as part of GitLab’s 14.0 release and …

BOSTON – June 21, 2021 – Aqua Security, the pure-play cloud native security leader, today announced its participation in the launch of the AWS CloudFormation Public Registry, with a published listing to enable customers to easily discover, seamlessly provision, and scale the Aqua Cloud Native Security Platform into their Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) environments. …

BOSTON – June 21, 2021 – Aqua Security, the pure-play cloud native security leader, today published new research from Team Nautilus revealing a continued rise in cyberattacks targeting container infrastructure and supply chains, and showing that it can now take less than one hour to exploit vulnerable container infrastructure. The Cloud Native Threat Report: Attacks in the …

BOSTON – June 8, 2021 – Aqua Security, the pure-play cloud native security leader, today announced the appointment of Darkbit co-founders Brad Geesaman and Josh Larsen to the Aqua team. Geesaman will serve as the Director of Cloud Security and Larsen as the Director of Cloud Product; their expertise will be leveraged to further strengthen Aqua’s Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) solution and Kubernetes offerings.   Geesaman and Larsen have been singularly focused on cyber and information security for over …

BOSTON – May 24, 2021 – Aqua Security, the pure-play cloud native security leader, today announced that its Team Nautilus researchers were tapped by the MITRE ATT&CK team to contribute to the development of the new Container Framework. Aqua’s contributions help to create a foundation for cloud security methodologies and shape the future of container security by illuminating key cloud native …

BOSTON –  May 10, 2021 — Aqua Security, the pure-play cloud native security leader, today announced that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Sarah Goodchild, Director, Worldwide Partner Sales for Aqua, to the highly respected Women of the Channel list for 2021 for the second consecutive year. This annual list recognizes the …

BOSTON – May 12, 2021 – Aqua Security, the pure-play cloud native security leader, today published new research from Team Nautilus revealing that a significant majority of companies that move to multi-cloud environments are not properly configuring their cloud-based services. According to new findings from Aqua’s “2021 Cloud Security Report: Cloud Configuration Risks Exposed”, these …