Containers may be mainstream, but securing them in production remains a moving target. As AI adoption scales and environments grow more complex, so too do the risks, especially at runtime, where traditional tools struggle to provide meaningful visibility. These are not legacy exploits like port scans or brute force attempts. Attackers are targeting what happens inside your environment, at runtime, where misconfigurations, unexpected behaviors, and subtle anomalies can quietly introduce business risk.
Yet most security teams are flying blind in production. They have tools that check for vulnerabilities before deployment, scan code for secrets, or assess infrastructure misconfigurations. What they don’t have is visibility into what’s actually happening right now, in the workloads already running in their environment. That’s the gap Aqua is closing with the launch of the Container Security Risk Assessment (CSRA).
Beyond the Static: Why Runtime Context Matters
Security tooling has largely focused on pre-production controls like image scanning, CI/CD pipeline checks, and IaC validation. It is logical, and even easier than runtime. But once containers are running, things change. Configurations drift. Policies go unenforced. New integrations and runtime behaviors emerge, especially as AI-driven workloads expand.
This is where CSRA delivers differentiated value. Rather than relying on theoretical risk or static configurations, CSRA evaluates live container behavior in your production environment using runtime data collected by Aqua’s lightweight agent. That data is analyzed by the same behavioral detection engine Aqua has refined over a decade of protecting cloud native environments.
The result is a clear, executive-ready profile of how your applications behave and where real risk resides.
Cutting Through the Noise
Millions of events happen in container environments daily. Most are benign. But some signal exposure, and others hint at active compromise. CSRA is designed to help you separate signal from noise, surfacing the small percentage of events that matter most.
CSRA leverages Aqua’s deep threat research and real-world attack patterns to separate signal from noise. It identifies and prioritizes the top 0.001% of events that indicate true risk, whether that’s anomalous privilege escalation, lateral movement, suspicious process activity, or something as subtle as an unexpected binary executing in a production pod.
This isn’t alert fatigue. It’s clarity.
What You’ll Gain from CSRA
After a quick onboarding process, Aqua delivers a detailed report summarizing what’s happening in your environment, how it compares to industry norms, and the steps you can take to reduce risk.
Importantly, CSRA is separate from Aqua’s standard runtime telemetry flow. It does not replace scan results or runtime alerts already integrated into your SOC. Instead, it complements the Aqua Platform by offering a focused behavioral profiling capability. It is designed to answer a specific question: What is actually running in my environment, and which behaviors pose risk?
That insight drives action. CSRA findings help reduce risk in two primary ways: first, by identifying areas where engineers can modify risky application behavior, and second, by guiding policy decisions that clearly define what is acceptable versus dangerous in production.
You are not just looking at alerts, you are evaluating cause, context, and consequence. The output is built to inform both operational remediation and high-level security strategy.
Built on a Decade of Threat Research
CSRA is powered by Aqua’s behavioral detection engine, trained on billions of cloud events and insights from hundreds of thousands of real-world attacks. It reflects ten years of threat research led by Aqua Nautilus, our dedicated cloud native intelligence team.
This isn’t just a cool dashboard. It’s a distillation of ten years of cloud native security expertise, delivered in a format that is accessible, actionable, and immediately useful. Organizations that have adopted CSRA have uncovered misconfigurations, caught early-stage threats, and seen application risk reductions of 40 to 50 percent within weeks.
A Smarter First Step
You do not need to overhaul your environment to benefit from runtime visibility. The CSRA is a lightweight, high-impact way to gain clarity fast. No rip and replace. No six-month roadmap.
If you are responsible for cloud security strategy, CSRA offers a direct line of sight into runtime behavior, risk exposure, and the steps needed to reduce it. It is ideal for demonstrating coverage to leadership, driving operational focus, and aligning security policy to real-world conditions.
Get Started Today
To request your free assessment, visit https://info.aquasec.com/aqua_csra or contact your Aqua Security representative. We will guide you through setup, help you gather runtime data, and deliver insights you can act on immediately.
In today’s cloud native world, runtime is where the threats are and where your defenses need to be strongest. CSRA gives you the intelligence to secure what matters most.
