Aqua News

BOSTON — November 29, 2021 — Aqua Security, a leading pure-play cloud native security provider, today announced that it has achieved the AWS Graviton Ready designation, part of the Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) Service Ready Program. This designation recognizes that Aqua Security’s Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) has demonstrated successful integration with the AWS Graviton service. Aqua’s platform solves the security and compliance challenges of …

Ehud Amiri, product management VP with cloud security specialists Aqua Security, says the reality of the digital supply chain is that organizations rely heavily on third-party code, potentially introducing risky components into their applications.

Aqua Security describes its offering, the Aqua Platform, as a “complete” cloud-native application protection platform. And the vendor has seen “high double-digit” revenue and customer growth for its CNAPP so far this year, said Rani Osnat, senior vice president of strategy at the 450-person company.

Trivy is an open-source project developed by Aqua Security that scans for vulnerabilities and configuration issues in container images, file systems, and Git repositories.

November is here, and it’s time to warm yourself up with hot updates from the cloud native world! Learn about new Azure Container Apps introduced by Microsoft and make sure you’re prepared for dockershim removal from Kubernetes, which means the Docker container runtime will no longer be supported. For security folks, we’ve got a threat alert featuring release_agent container escape, plus …

“The moment I saw that containers package everything inside and the operations people click a button to run, for me it was obvious to also package security into that, so as a developer I don’t have to wait,” said Aqua CTO Amir Jerbi.

Aqua Security’s Bhuvan Bhatt, India R&D Head, shares his POV on a “security-first mindset” and how developers need to utilize automation to act quickly and mitigate or address security risks.

Aqua Security announced a strategic investment from Capital One Ventures, together with the appointment of Capital One Chief Information Security Officer Chris Betz to Aqua’s Executive Advisory Board. The announcement further validates Aqua’s leadership as a cloud native security solution provider for financial services providers. Aqua has more than doubled its revenue in financial services …