Aqua News

We are thrilled to extend Aqua’s full-lifecycle security controls to VMware Enterprise PKS. We’ve seen a great deal of enthusiasm by our customers to adopt VMware’s fully supported Kubernetes distribution, and we are excited to be one of the very first to have certified our cloud native security platform as Partner Ready for VMware Enterprise …

Organizations using VMware Enterprise PKS can now leverage Aqua’s granular security and compliance controls to protect their cloud-native workloads BOSTON – May 21, 2019 — Aqua Security, the leading platform provider for securing container-based and cloud native applications, today announced that Aqua Cloud Native Security Platform (CSP) has attained VMware Partner Ready status for PKS. …

Portworx Partners with Aqua Security for 2019 Report, Reveals Increasing Financial Investment in Containers as Enterprises Motivated by Increased Developer Speed and Efficiency LOS ALTOS, Calif., May 21, 2019 — Portworx, the cloud-native storage and data management company modern enterprises trust to manage data in containers, and Aqua Security, a market leader in protecting container-based …

“The most common and risky mistake is not using authentication for access to the API server since that is the main administration entry point to your cluster,” Jerbi says. “This also applies to anything that connects to the API server, like the K8s console UI.”

“We are thrilled to have Insight Partners as investors to propel Aqua’s next phase of growth.” – Dror Davidoff

The Aqua Cloud Native Security Platform secures individual containers from the time they are first developed all the way though when they land in a production environment. It uses an inherent advantage of containers, the fact that they are always highly specialized for their jobs, to create a cybersecurity structure based on whitelisting.

The Cyberthreat Defence Report highlights containers as the weakest link; Google announces Anthos; AWS App Mesh goes GA; KubeSec Enterprise Summit in Europe; Serverless security for AWS Lambda, and more.

According to Crunchbase data, Israeli startups have made great capital strides in this category in Q1 2019: at least 13 companies, mostly seed and early stage, have raised more than $196 million in 2019 to date. Those results include Tel Aviv-based cloud security company Aqua Security, which raised $62 million in a Series C led by Insight Venture Partners …