Aqua Cloud Native Blog › Categories: Cloud Security Posture Management

In today’s cloud security landscape, the challenge of keeping pace with evolving threats is daunting for security practitioners. Meanwhile, malicious actors operate at lightning speed, often breaching organizations and extracting valuable data within minutes, if not seconds. Imagine what they could accomplish in 24 hours — can any modern organization afford such a gap in …

As a major trend in 2020, enterprises have been increasingly adopting multi-cloud to elevate efficiency and maintain flexibility and independence. But multi-cloud environments are more complex and harder to secure, leading to more cloud service misconfigurations and breaches. Making matters worse, many organizations still believe that their cloud provider will protect them, but the truth …

Each day, Aqua monitors millions of cloud infrastructure changes for misconfigurations, and control-plane events for security issues or malicious activity in our users’ cloud accounts. But we’ve learned that just identifying misconfigurations is not enough to protect cloud assets in a modern fast-paced environment. Operating efficiently at scale requires fixing security issues on the fly. …

Our customers challenged us to add Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) security to the list of public clouds that Aqua CSPM (aka CloudSploit) covers – and make it seamless. That meant giving our customers a singular view into the public cloud platforms they use, while maintaining the same level of control with easy-to-use interfaces. Well, we …

With serverless functions architecture gaining in popularity, it is also becoming clear that the architecture is not without its security drawbacks. Overly permissive permissions, vulnerability in the functions’ code, and embedded secrets could all be exploited. Despite being event-triggered and ephemeral by nature, serverless functions can still be subject to unauthorized activity such as event …