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Happy New Year! For us in cloud native industry, 2021 promises to be an exciting one. As companies accelerate their digital transformation, security will be more critical than ever. There’s a lot to look forward to – starting this month, KubeSec Enterprise Summit will bring together industry thought leaders and discuss all things cloud native …

One lesson data centers should not take away from the SolarWinds breach is that installing supplier patches is a bad idea. The attack did compromise the automated software update system, but it’s a lot more dangerous to leave known vulnerabilities in your systems, said Tsvi Korren, field CTO at Aqua Security. “It requires some painstaking …

Cloud native technologies have the potential to truly change the way we access and secure applications, but the success of this relies on the people and processes in place to handle the roll out of these technologies. This requires appropriate leadership, and decision makers within an organisation who demonstrate robust cloud security leadership are more …

4. Cloud-based services will come under increased attack Infrastructure as code (IaC), platform as a service, and software as a service will attract more attention than ever from attackers in 2021. Amir Jerbi, CTO of Aqua Security, a cloud application security provider, explained that, because DevOps increasingly uses IaC templates to automate provisioning of cloud-native platforms, …

“Our open source projects are all intended to be useful, standalone tools in their own right,” says Liz Rice, VP of open source engineering at Aqua Security. “We also incorporate them into our commercial platform, where they become part of a much more sophisticated and interconnected system, but we don’t hold back features from the open …

DevOps and DevSecOps will evolve into “platform teams” in many organizations, says Liz Rice, vice president of open source engineering at Aqua Security: “New ‘platform teams’ will take the lead on enterprises’ strategy for what historically been within the purview of cloud operations, security, and development tooling functions, to provide a higher-level abstraction to application …

New year, new cyberattacks? 2020 was a rollercoaster of a year, but what does 2021 have in store? We asked the cloud security experts at Aqua Security and Fugue for their predictions for 2021 and it looks like it’ll be another interesting year (hopefully more interesting and less “interesting”). Here’s what they had to say about Kubernetes, …

DevOps is a set of practices that looks to combine and automate the processes between software development and operational teams during an application life cycle. Although the current DevOps mindset is certainly an improvement on the traditional method of software development where the development and operations teams were kept separate, it could still do with …