Aqua News

Aqua Security’s patent-pending MicroEnforcer™ technology protects containers from within, reducing the dependency on a host environment Boston, MA – March 7, 2018 – Aqua Security, the market-leading platform provider for securing container-based and cloud-native applications across their entire lifecycle, today announced the availability of version 3.0 of its platform, featuring a new, patent-pending technology that …

Amir Jerbi, co-founder and CTO, Aqua Security: “Application security is one area that is not only rife with bad habits, but it was built around a deeply flawed mindset about security – mainly, that it didn’t really matter. This resulted in a huge process flaw: security and risk reviews came at the end of the application development/delivery process as …

Researchers at Aqua Security Software said that they’d heard about crypto-currency mining attacks on Docker containers and wanted to learn how they were carried out. They also wanted to check the operations of the Aqua Container Security Platform. To accomplish this, they set up a honeypot.

The big news is that Red Hat, the open source leader announced the acquisition of CoreOS – a hot player in the containers space. This acquisition obviously comes to power up Red Hat’s dominance in the containers ecosystem, but there might be other, more complex reasons behind this acquisition. When dealing with containers in production, infrastructure adjustments are …

DevSecOps may not be a 100% solution for cybersecurity skills shortage, but it can make it less of a concern in the AppSec realm.

Happy new year from the Aqua team! In this first edition of the year, we wanted to look back at 2017 and share with you some of Aqua’s important milestones from the past year

DevOps teams have been on board to risk assess the security and compliance posture of container environments and applications, but few people outside the dev team currently know what containers are.  So out of necessity, Development and DevOps teams became responsible for container security.

Some container security tools like Aqua Security take these criteria into account, and proactively monitor for times when these rules are violated. Additionally, these container security tools leverage machine learning for threat detection. They are able to analyze large quantities of data both internal and external, and surface any suspicious user activity, new devices, and …