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Latest investment round led by Greenspring Associates brings total raised to more than $130 million Boston, MA and Tel Aviv, Israel – 20 May 2020 – Aqua Security, the market leader in protecting container-based, serverless and cloud native applications, announced today that it has closed a Series D round of $30M led by Greenspring Associates, …

Israel-based container security company Aqua Security has raised another $30 million in a Series D funding round, which brings the total raised to date to more than $130 million. The latest funding round was led by Greenspring Associates, with participation from previous investors Insight Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and TLV Partners. “This funding will support …

Aqua Security Software Ltd.’s latest funding round shows there’s still a big appetite for container security tools in the enterprise. The company today said it has just raised $30 million in a Series D round of funding, bringing its total amount raised to more than $130 million. Greenspring Associates led the latest round, which also saw the …

Rani Osnat, vice president for strategy at Aqua Security, explained that the concepts behind container security are similar to those used in traditional application security testing technologies like DAST and IAST (interactive application security testing) in development and RASP (runtime application self-protection) in runtime, but the mechanisms are very different. For example, containers are governed …

One of the biggest advantages of using Aqua Security is simplicity in implementation. Instead of making security a complex component, Aqua Security utilizes tools that can run inside your Kubernetes clusters, GUI for easy management, and seamless integration with existing services, like AWS EKS. It is capable of performing automating environment node discovery and mapping …

The Aqua Security enterprise security platform safeguards cloud-native applications and infrastructures, including containers, VMs and serverless computing workloads. The platform offers full development-to-production protection across the entire continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline. This gives organizations full visibility and control over their application activity, while helping to bridge the gap between DevOps and security. An Aqua Security deployment …

Aqua Security has announced that Trivy, their open source vulnerability scanner, is now available as an integrated option within a number of platforms. Trivy is able to scan for vulnerabilities within operating systems and a number of common application dependencies. With this announcement, Trivy is now included within Harbor as the default scanner. Harbor is an open source container …

As many organizations have been forced to make a rapid shift to work-from-home to help control the spread of COVID-19, a significant percentage of IT and cloud professionals are concerned about maintaining the security of their cloud environments during this period. Even otherwise, security has always been a prime concern for CIO/CISOs with more organizations …