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The risk that open source components pose to applications has less to do with the component itself than the supply chain that supports it, asserted Tsvi Korren, field CTO at Aqua Security. “It all comes down to the degree of governance and oversight, which open source projects often lack,” he told TechNewsWorld.

Ninety-seven percent of cloud-native security practitioners are broadly unaware of essential container security principles, according to a report from Aqua Security.

Only 3% of respondents recognize that a container, in and of itself, is not a security boundary, indicating that the default security capabilities of containers are overestimated, according to the 2021 Cloud Native Security Survey from Aqua Security.

Aqua Security announced the availability of its new Aqua Platform, with a unified console to ease the journey from scanning and visibility to workload protection in cloud native environments.

Aqua VP of Strategy, Rani Osnat, contributed an article on the new security challenges emerging as more organizations launch or expand their multi-cloud strategies.

“The moves Aqua has been making telegraph a good vision of where innovation and cloud can head… without leaving security behind as an afterthought.” – Constellation Research Inc. analyst Liz Miller

Aqua Security has hired Datto and ownCloud veteran Matt Richards as chief marketing officer. Richards joins Aqua roughly four months after the cloud security software provider raised $135 million at a $1 billion valuation — essentially minting the company as a privately held, venture-backed unicorn.

BOSTON – July 27, 2021 – Aqua Security, the pure-play cloud native security leader, today rolls out the availability of its new Aqua Platform, with a unified console to ease the journey from scanning and visibility to workload protection in cloud native environments. The new platform reduces administrative burden and allows security teams to start with scanning and cloud security posture management (CSPM) capabilities, then add in sandboxing capabilities and workload protection as needed. The experience is streamlined regardless of scale and is available as a SaaS or self-hosted deployment. “Scaling …