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There are several third-party security auditing tools for Kubernetes. Kube-bench, from Aqua Security, provides deeper audits to verify whether configurations align with benchmarks defined by the Center for Internet Security, a community-driven nonprofit organization. Aqua also offers kube-hunter, which provides more basic security auditing functionality than kubeaudit.

Aqua Security announced a suite of new Kubernetes-native security capabilities, providing a holistic approach to securing applications that run on Kubernetes across the development, deployment, and runtime phases of the application lifecycle. The company also announced significant new features in its Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) solution. These new capabilities are integrated into Aqua’s cloud …

Aqua Security today unveiled a Kubernetes Security Posture Management (KSPM) offering that provides IT teams with a set of policies and controls to automate configuration and compliance of Kubernetes clusters. In addition, Aqua Security has added a Kubernetes Runtime Protection module that provides an option for using Kubernetes Admission Controllers to deploy security controls as a …

Boston and Tel Aviv, Israel –  October 27, 2020 – Aqua Security, the pure-play cloud native security leader, today announced a suite of new Kubernetes-native security capabilities, providing a holistic approach to securing applications that run on Kubernetes, across the development, deployment, and runtime phases of the application lifecycle. The company also announced significant new …

A security vulnerability can be exploited to coerce the containerd cloud platform into exposing the host’s registry or users’ cloud-account credentials. Containerd bills itself as a runtime tool that “manages the complete container lifecycle of its host system, from image transfer and storage to container execution and supervision to low-level storage to network attachments and beyond.” As …

Aqua Security sees Kubernetes security from a holistic point of view. It integrates three primary components into its set of tools, allowing Kubernetes users to basically ensure maximum security at every turn. The first component is Aqua Security’s threat assessment tool known as kube-bench—a CIS compliance tool, which performs in-depth analysis of your Kubernetes environment. …

BOSTON – October 14, 2020 – Aqua Security, the pure-play cloud native security leader, announced today it has won the 2020 CyberSecurity Breakthrough Award — a leading independent market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies and products in the global information security market today — in the “Enterprise Cybersecurity Solution of the Year” …

Most attacks targeting cloud infrastructure deploy cryptocurrency mining malware rather than execute other forms of cyber attacks, a study by Aqua Security found. The study, which took place between June 2019 and July 2020, analyzed over 16,371 attacks on honeypot servers.  The decoys were deployed to study the pattern of cyber-attacks on cloud servers. The …