London – October 14, 2024 – Aqua Security, the pioneer in cloud native security, today announced its Cloud Native Security Platform has been named Best Cloud Native Product at the Computing Cloud Excellence Awards 2024. The Computing Cloud Excellence Awards recognise the best of the UK’s cloud computing industry, highlighting the most innovative and compelling products.
The Aqua Platform secures all cloud native applications from code commit through runtime and combines proactive and reactive security measures with real-world threat intelligence to defend against known, unknown, and unexpected risks and threats. Aqua was honored for its modern, built-in-the cloud approach to securing the new cloud native application stack, as well as its constant focus on innovation. Other differentiating features as noted by the judges included Aqua’s large language model (LLM) security capabilities, runtime protection and open source innovation.
“Aqua has led the charge in cloud native security since day one—innovating where others follow, because we know our customers’ unique challenges inside out,” said Amir Jerbi, CTO and co-founder of Aqua Security. “Our mission is clear: to provide a single integrated platform that enables organizations to secure every cloud native application everywhere. Being recognized as the Best Cloud Native Product is a validation of our commitment to protecting our customers’ applications across every stage of the lifecycle.”
A CNAPP Built for Evolving Regulatory Landscapes
Aqua provides end-to-end protection for containerized applications across all deployment environments, enabling shift-left protection and early detection powered by a universal scanner (Aqua Trivy), while providing real-time protection in runtime. Additionally, Aqua provides purpose-built cloud native compliance controls, full visibility and auditing, and “compliant by default” templates to facilitate compliance with less hassle.
Aqua is committed to cybersecurity excellence demonstrated by proactively aligning with the NIS 2 regulations, Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) and the forthcoming Cyber Resilience Act, implementing key elements such as robust risk management strategies, information sharing, insights for third-party code and more. Aqua also facilitates customer-driven security assessments to establish and maintain its position as trusted partners in cloud security.
Last week, Aqua was also recognized as the Enterprise Cloud Security Solution Provider of the Year for pioneering the Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) market and its comprehensive, innovative and integrated approach to cloud native security. Learn more about the Aqua Platform, and how the Platform helps organizations in the UK meet the stringent requirements of DORA.
About Aqua Security
Aqua Security is the pioneer in securing containerised cloud native applications from development to production. Aqua’s full lifecycle solution prevents attacks by enforcing pre-deployment hygiene and mitigates attacks in real time in production, reducing mean time to repair and overall business risk. The Aqua Platform, a Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP), integrates security from Code to Cloud, combining the power of agent and agentless technology into a single solution. With enterprise scale that doesn’t slow development pipelines, Aqua secures your future in the cloud. Founded in 2015, Aqua is headquartered in Boston, MA and Ramat Gan, IL protecting over 500 of the world’s largest enterprises. For more information, visit https://www.aquasec.com.
