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TechBeacon‘s top 12 cybersecurity stories for 2018 cover the gamut of emerging trends and top issues confronting enterprises in these and related areas.

Security is still a consistent risk, according to Andy Feit, an executive at Boston-based Aqua Security, where Rice is a technology evangelist. “The reason for that is the cloud-native movement often stands on the shoulders of others,”

The Aqua Container Security Platform can be deployed on-premises or in a customer’s private or public cloud environment. The platform components are containerized and are easy to deploy using orchestrators, Helm charts, etc. Additionally, Aqua offers two cloud-based consumption options. Pay-per-scan on AWS Marketplace provides image scanning on a pay-per-scan basis, which can be used …

One challenge that has come with Kubernetes’ growing stature is the increased focus on security. While the project routinely touts security updates as part of its quarterly version releases, a major security flaw was discovered just as the last release for the year was announced.

Since this was exposed and communicated about so quickly provides enterprises with a level of comfort and it also helps to drive the security discussion further. The rapid pace in which the vulnerability was fixed showed maturity in the ecosystem and that the community is taking security seriously.

To declare multi-cloud a “trend” in 2019 would be perhaps understating things; it’s becoming a go-to strategy in the majority of IT shops, to the extent that “cloud” increasingly means “multi-cloud” almost by default. “Multi-cloud is already a reality,” says Amir Jerbi, CTO and co-founder at Aqua Security

In just a little more than three years Aqua Security has set its mark in the container security space. With its major new release of Aqua 3.5, the company has again raised the bar with serverless and container encryption upgrades and feature sets.

DevSecOps Engineers require a broad set of skills. They need the technical skill set of an IT security professional, as well as knowledge of the DevOps approach. They’ll also need a passion for cybersecurity, with sound awareness of the latest threats and trends.