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DevSecOps is an easy term to toss around. But what does it mean, exactly? What actually goes into an effective DevSecOps strategy? And how do cloud and DevOps impact DevSecOps processes?  To find out, I participated in a conversation with Merritt Baer, principal in the AWS Office of the CISO, to discuss the best ways …

A fileless attack is a technique that takes incremental steps toward gaining control of your environment while remaining undetected. In a fileless attack, the malware is directly loaded into memory and executed, evading common defenses and static scanning.

At Aqua, we believe that cloud native is an opportunity to do security right. With the release of our Terraform Provider, we’ve added another tool to do security the cloud native way. With Aqua Terraform Provider, security teams can easily adopt DevOps processes and infrastructure as code (IaC) to consistently automate how they deploy and …

In late January, the White House published a memo that lays the groundwork for creating a zero-trust architecture for federal agencies. With renewed attention from the US government, zero-trust networking is an area that many organizations are focusing on to improve their security posture. With that focus, it makes sense to understand where these principles …

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is a well-known compliance framework for any organization handling payment card data. However, translating the PCI DSS requirements into the world of containers and Kubernetes can be overwhelming. In this post, we break down how containerized applications impact PCI DSS compliance and how to meet its …

A key element in building secure containerized applications is to ensure that the base image that you use is well-maintained and secure. A common piece of advice is to use the Docker Official Images for this purpose. However, our research reveals that you need to be careful when using these images, as some are no …

One of the great security benefits of the move to cloud native development is the increased use of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to describe computing environments. Once things are described as code, we can shift left and secure our environments before they’re deployed. As a major new feature, the latest version of Trivy, Aqua’s open …

Digital transformation is fundamentally changing how organizations compete and engage with customers, even redefining traditional labor-intensive industries. A great example of this is Forum Engineering, a staffing company from Japan, which developed an AI-based Software-as-a-Service solution to stay ahead of the competition. The challenges of securing this innovative offering required a platform that can protect …

If you work with containers long enough, you already know that containers should not be considered as security boundaries. In this blog, we’ll explore how different container isolation techniques intend to provide a solution to this problem, and whether their strengths and weaknesses make them a practical choice.

One of the fundamental questions in container security, since the early days of Docker, is whether a container constitutes a security boundary. In this first part of a two-blog discussion of containers and isolation, we take a look at the security boundary question, along with key examples. Part II will continue with the nuances of …

While Docker has become synonymous with containers, various container tools and platforms have emerged to make the process of developing and running containers more efficient. Still, a lot of the same principles around Docker security apply for protecting container-based applications built with other tools as well. We compiled 20 essential Docker security best practices into …

One of the challenges with container security and its standards is keeping current with new releases and products. New versions of the Docker and Kubernetes CIS Benchmarks were released recently to capture changes in the new versions of those projects, both to keep things current and to expand coverage to help people keep their environments …