Aqua News

Aqua Security CTO Amir Jerbi says it’s apparent most organizations are unaware of how malware inserted within a containerized application can be employed to take over an entire host. It then becomes relatively trivial to compromise the rest of the IT environment.

“…the company’s argument about the complex process of securing the supply chain is also on point. While containerization facilitates security improvements — such as security-as-code, isolation on the host, and immutable images — containers deployed without thought to security or the supply chain provide no guarantees that malicious code or vulnerabilities may have crept in.”

BOSTON – July 22, 2021 – Aqua Security, the pure-play cloud native security leader, today released the results of its 2021 Cloud Native Security Survey revealing the knowledge gap around runtime security and the associated risks. The study found that 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. This …

Aqua Security develops a complete cloud-native security platform for the entire application stack, from development to production, across virtual machines, containers and serverless workloads. In March Aqua completed a $135 million Series E funding round.

BOSTON – July 19, 2021 – Aqua Security, the pure-play cloud native security leader, today announced that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Aqua to its 2021 Emerging Vendors list in the Security category. This annual list honors new and up-and-coming technology vendors that have proven their commitment to innovation and growth …

With 465,000 cybersecurity job openings in the United States, why is recruiting so difficult? Biagio DeSimone, Enterprise Solution Architect, Aqua Security offers his take.

As the summer carries on, the cloud native security world is not taking a vacation. Grab your perfect cold brew as you read through an interesting survey about K8s and cloud native usage from Canonical, the updates in the Docker and K8s CIS Benchmarks, or what your security team needs to know about container orchestration and tools. And be …

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 …