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Aqua Co-founder and CTO Amir Jerbi honored as a visionary who recognized the need for a new approach to security in a cloud native world BOSTON – February 12, 2019 – Aqua Security, the leading platform provider for securing container-based and cloud native applications, today announced that Info Security Products Guide, the industry’s leading information …

“There are always going to be vulnerabilities,” Rani Osnat, vice president of product marketing at Aqua Security, told SDxCentral during the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2018 event in Seattle. “The fact that one was found was to be expected. And I expect more will be found going forward. That’s just what should be expected …

“Operators can simplify how you run Kubernetes applications, removing the complexity of managing the nuts and bolts of Kubernetes, and allowing you to do so in a repeatable manner,” says Amir Jerbi, CTO at Aqua Security.

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Traditional security tools cannot handle the velocity, scale, and dynamic networking capabilities of containers. Taking this a step further, serverless functions prioritize simplicity and agility by abstracting infrastructure concerns to provide a simple execution environment for applications and microservices. Attackers may leverage a vulnerability in base images used for containers, outsourced libraries or in serverless …

More businesses need a “shift left” mentality to move security to the start of the development and build process and test for vulnerabilities earlier, according to Liz Rice, technology evangelist for Aqua Security. If there is a problem with one of the dependencies, a developer can be notified earlier instead of waiting until the end of …

It is a reality that more enterprises are deploying containers and other tools to help build and ship applications faster – solutions designed to be easy-to-use and to improve developer agility – not with production deployments and associated security requirements in mind. Aqua’s view is right there with my own – a solution is not …

As Kubernetes is leveraged as the foundation for an increasing number of critical enterprise technologies and enables the new industry standard of hybrid cloud, open-source participants are reckoning with both the challenge and opportunity of working within a new collaborative digital economy. “The scale is coming from real adoption and businesses that are moving their applications …