Aqua News

“There are thousands of people here from companies moving to cloud native,” says Liz Rice, vice president of open source engineering at Aqua Security, which provides security for cloud native deployments. “This is changing the dynamic to mature software that people are using in production.” Why is Kubernetes so important? Docker containers made it easy …

Rani Osnat, Vice President of Strategy for Aqua Security, thinks 2020 may be the year that DevOps teams finally reach critical mass in many organizations. That’s to say, their workloads will finally balloon out of control. As Osnat predicted: “DevOps teams will find themselves taking on more and more responsibilities, including more security and quality automation. …

Aqua Security has acquired CloudSploit, a provider of tools for monitoring configurations of cloud services, as part of an effort to extend its cybersecurity portfolio. Rani Osnat, vice president of strategy for Aqua Security, said the acquisition further extends the reach of Aqua Security’s portfolio beyond containers, virtual machines and serverless computing frameworks to include service posture management.

“We wanted to get into this adjacent space,” said Rani Osnat, VP of strategy at Aqua Security. “We see a consolidation in the market, and we see customers wanting to get more out of the vendors they work with.” And, Osnat added, cloud security posture management looked like a smart move for Aqua, which started in 2015 …

For Aqua Security, the acquisition adds cloud security posture management to its existing Aqua Container Security Platform. Launched in 2016, the tool is designed for securing containerized environments while offering users greater control over the security and compliance needs of their software containers, which are used to enable applications to be run on multiple computing systems, data centers …

Aqua also deepens its VM Security capabilities for comprehensive cloud workload protection BOSTON – November 12, 2019 – Aqua Security, the leading platform provider for securing container-based, serverless, and cloud native applications today announced its expansion into cloud security posture management (CSPM) with its acquisition of CloudSploit. CloudSploit’s SaaS-based platform allows customers to monitor their …

Aqua Security announced today it has acquired CloudSploit, a provider of tools for monitoring configurations of cloud services. This acquisition further extends the reach of an Aqua Security portfolio beyond containers, virtual machines and serverless computing frameworks to include service posture management, says Rani Osnat, vice president of strategy for Aqua Security.

Aqua Security broadened its reach beyond containers this week with the acquisition of CloudSploit and new VM support as enterprises navigate a plethora of choices for cloud security tools.