Aqua News

Aqua Security has closed its Series E funding round and notched a $1 billion valuation to scale from 410 customers today to thousands of customers within a few years. The Ramat Gan, Israel-based cloud security startup said it needs to keep improving its product, acquiring additional customers, and educating the market about cloud-native security to carry out …

kube-hunter, another Aqua Security project, goes deeper to scan Kubernetes clusters and pods for additional weaknesses outside of the CIS database. As its name implies, kube-hunter uses more predatory—and potentially dangerous—tactics to really put your Kubernetes instances to the test. When set to “active hunting” mode, kube-hunter will further exploit the vulnerabilities that arise with state-changing …

Aqua Security today announced that it raised $135 million in series E funding at a post-money valuation exceeding $1 billion. The Boston- and Tel Aviv-based company plans to put the proceeds toward broadening its product portfolio and its geographic footprint. Containers, the packages of code and dependencies that run across computing environments, are riding a …

Boston, MA – March 8, 2021 – Aqua Security, the pure-play cloud native security leader, today announced that it has achieved both ISO 27001 and SOC Type II certifications. These certifications demonstrate Aqua’s adherence to the highest operational standards for security controls and information management across company functions and the readiness of its SaaS offerings …

Aqua Security has announced that it has achieved both ISO 27001 and SOC Type II certifications. These certifications demonstrate Aqua’s adherence to the highest operational standards for security controls and information management across company functions and the readiness of its SaaS offerings to serve enterprise-grade customers. As the most widely recognized ISO/IEC 27000 compliance standard, ISO …

The Team Nautilus security researchers at Aqua Security have reported the discovery of cryptomining activity that involved 92 malicious Docker Hub registries and 92 Bitbucket repositories, all set up over the course of four days. The attacks were discovered using a dynamic threat analysis (DTA) tool developed by Aqua for identifying security issues in production environments. …

Aqua Security announced that it has achieved both ISO 27001 and SOC Type II certifications. These certifications demonstrate Aqua’s adherence to the highest operational standards for security controls and information management across company functions and the readiness of its SaaS offerings to serve enterprise-grade customers. “As the DevOps movement transforms the way we think about information …

In 2020, our Nautilus research team saw yet more attacks targeting the cloud native supply chain and infrastructure. These security threats, including fileless malware in containers, taking advantage of misconfigured Docker API ports, and using container images for attacks are, admittedly, relatively unsophisticated. However, despite this lack of sophistication they are still successful, and it …