Aqua News

Boston, MA and Tel Aviv, Israel – 21 July 2020 – Aqua Security, the pure play cloud native security leader, today announced the availability of its Aqua Platform in two new editions, as well as several updates to the company’s core products.  Aqua WaveTM, a SaaS-only offering, delivers an integrated and easy-to-deploy solution to secure applications as they are built, and the infrastructure they are deployed on. Aqua EnterpriseTM, available as both a self-hosted and SaaS offering, adds new capabilities for securing …

Aqua Security Software Ltd. said today it’s expanding its portfolio of cloud native security products. The company, which has raised more than $130 million in funding, sells tools that can help to protect container-based, cloud native and serverless applications from malware and malicious attacks. Aqua’s tools enable developers to automate and improve container security and compliance posture, monitor usage and control …

BOSTON – July 20, 2020 – Aqua Security, the market leader in protecting container-based, serverless and cloud native applications, announced today CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Aqua to its 2020 Emerging Vendors list in the Security category. This annual list honors new, rising technology suppliers that exhibit great promise in shaping …

Welcome back! We have a great selection of industry and Aqua news for you. To start things off, while many of us are still WFH, our adversaries – the bad actors – are doubling down on organized attacks targeting cloud native environments. You can read all about one such attack in our threat alert blog, as …

Enterprises are increasingly running applications in cloud native environments using containers, along with orchestration tools such as Kubernetes, to facilitate scalability and resilience. If your organization falls into this category (and the chances are good that it does today, or plans to soon), you must make securing the deployment a top priority. If you’re uncertain …

Aqua Security this week reported a new type of cyberattack that exploits Docker application programming interfaces (APIs) to build and run a malicious container image on the host. Asaf Morag, lead data analyst for Aqua Security, says this approach enables cybercriminals to end-run static analysis tools that only discover malicious code prior to it being deployed …

Attacks against container infrastructure have evolved, according to new research by Aqua Security. While the exploitation of misconfigured Docker APIs is nothing new, threat actors are now building and running malicious container images on the vulnerable host. Aqua’s cyber security researchers, the Nautilus Team, published a blog on Wednesday detailing a new type of attack against Docker container infrastructure. “The attacker …

If you’re a hacker, attacking open source software is also very attractive. “If I’m an attacker and I know that tens of thousands of organizations use, for example, MySQL, then writing an exploit that will attempt to break into MySQL based on a known vulnerability is much more likely to succeed statistically, because it’s being …