Cloud Misconfigurations on the Rise: 2021 Cloud Security Report

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SECURITY RESEARCH

Cloud Misconfigurations on the Rise: 2021 Cloud Security Report

Insufficient access restrictions, permissive storage policies, and publicly exposed assets are only a few of the mistakes companies make when configuring their cloud infrastructure. The scale of the problem is mind-blowing, with 90% of organizations being vulnerable to security breaches due to cloud misconfigurations. Aqua’s Cloud Security Report sheds light on the most common cloud …

Securing Flexible Amazon ECS Anywhere Deployments with Aqua

Today, AWS announced the general availability of ECS Anywhere; a simple but powerful extension of AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS) to manage containers wherever they run – Aqua has been working closely with AWS to deliver a unified security experience for ECS Anywhere so enterprises can embrace the cloud native deployment models that make the …

Using LSM Hooks with Tracee to Overcome Gaps with Syscall Tracing

Tracee is an open source runtime security and forensics tool for Linux, built to address common Linux security issues. By leveraging the advantages of Linux extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) technology to trace systems and applications at runtime, Tracee analyzes collected events to detect suspicious behavioral patterns. In this blog, I’ll share the lessons we …

KUBERNETES SECURITY

Improving Your Kubernetes Authorization: Don’t Use system:masters

When you’re operating Kubernetes clusters, an important area of focus is in ensuring your authorization model is correct and provides users with the least privileges needed for them to carry out their roles. As such, blanket cluster-admin privileges should never be used and in particular the in-built system:masters group should be avoided.

Aqua Enterprise vs Aqua Trivy: What’s Best for You?

Anyone looking to improve the security posture of their cloud native applications knows that a vulnerability scanner is an important tool to add to the toolkit. Automating vulnerability scanning into your build pipeline can reduce the likelihood of successful attacks and help protect your containerized workloads. There are many scanning tools available today, both open …

VULNERABILITY MANAGEMENT

Vulnerability Management in Container Images from Build to Runtime

When it comes to containerized workloads, resolving the underlying image’s security vulnerabilities is paramount to ensuring the safety of your environment. Getting security risk information into the hands of developers quickly and efficiently is key to keeping development cycles as short as possible while maintaining a strong application security posture. What risk information can you …

SOFTWARE SUPPLY CHAIN SECURITY

Detecting Malicious Activity in CI/CD Pipeline with Tracee

With the growing popularity of CI platforms to build software, bad actors are increasingly looking to exploit these environments to target organizations. In our post about the recent Codecov breach, we explored how an attacker was able to get access to credentials from within the CI/CD pipeline. To prevent this from happening, you need to …

COMPANY & CULTURE

Accelerating Our Customers’ Cloud Native Journey: Why I Joined Aqua

I’m very excited to join Aqua Security as its Chief Customer Officer, leading the customer success, consulting, customer support and education teams, and helping our customers maximize the value from Aqua’s solutions. Joining from Microsoft, where I led the Azure Cloud and AI services in the AMS, one might ask – why would you leave …

Aqua Trivy, KUBERNETES SECURITY

Automating CIS Kubernetes Benchmark Compliance with Starboard Operator

Last year, we first released Starboard Operator, which automates vulnerability scanning and configuration auditing of Kubernetes workloads. We’re now pleased to announce the latest release (v0.10), which is focused on infrastructure and adds CIS Kubernetes Benchmark testing using kube-bench. The operator automatically discovers nodes and runs kube-bench on each node to get the benchmark score. …

SECURITY RESEARCH

Codecov Breach: Lessons Learned from the CI Poisoning Attack

A recent security incident disclosed by Codecov has again placed the spotlight on supply chain attacks. Looking at the details of the incident and how the system operated, it’s clear that organizations should make changes to how they use third party services as part of their Continuous Integration (CI) pipelines. So what can you do …

KUBERNETES SECURITY

Why You Shouldn’t Use Config Maps to Store Sensitive Data in K8s

One of the challenges of managing containerized environments is how to store sensitive information that’s needed for the operation of the applications running in those environments. Kubernetes provides a built-in secrets object type, but a common comment about them is that, from a technical standpoint, they’re just the same as other object types like Config …

CONTAINER SECURITY

Most Common Azure Configuration Issues and How to Treat Them

With hundreds of products and cloud services, Microsoft Azure Cloud offers significant capabilities, but it can be a formidable task to keep them all configured properly. However, there are a few things you can do right now to ensure the health and safety of your infrastructure.

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