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Contain Threats and Maintain Control

Aqua exposes suspicious container images in an isolated environment before deployment, restricts compromised workloads at runtime and preserves critical evidence before it disappears. Teams can limit the impact of an attack and understand exactly how it unfolded.

One Compromised Workload Can Become a Larger Incident

Once teams find malicious activity, they must limit its reach and preserve evidence before the workload ends. Without containment, a single compromise can spread while the details needed to investigate disappear.

Malicious Behavior Stays Hidden

Static scanning cannot always reveal how a suspicious image will behave, allowing malicious activity to remain hidden until production.

Compromise Can Spread Laterally

An unrestricted compromised workload can become a path into other workloads, expanding an attack's reach and impact.

Evidence Disappears with the Workload

Container memory and process history can disappear when a compromised workload terminates, taking critical forensic evidence with them.

Limit Impact and Preserve Critical Evidence

Expose malicious behavior before deployment, restrict compromised workloads at runtime and capture the evidence needed to reconstruct an attack.

Limit Impact and Preserve Critical Evidence

Expose Malicious Images in Isolation

Run suspicious container images in a safe, isolated sandbox before deployment to reveal malicious behavior without exposing production environments

Expose Malicious Images in Isolation

Restrict Compromised Workloads

Limit network and process activity in compromised workloads in real time to prevent lateral movement and limit further impact.

Runtime Security
Restrict Compromised Workloads

Preserve Evidence Before It Disappears

Capture container memory, process lineage and runtime telemetry before a compromised workload terminates to preserve critical evidence for investigation.

Runtime Security
Preserve Evidence Before It Disappears

Reconstruct How the Attack Unfolded

Use memory snapshots, process lineage and runtime telemetry to reconstruct the attack path and show what happened, what was affected and how far it spread.

Runtime Security
Reconstruct How the Attack Unfolded
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FAQ
What does containment mean in cloud workload security?

Containment means limiting how far a suspicious or malicious workload can affect other systems, typically by isolating it or restricting its network and process activity, rather than only detecting that something is wrong.

Can Aqua isolate a suspicious image before it reaches production?

Yes. Aqua runs suspicious container images in an isolated sandbox where their behavior can be safely observed before deployment, preventing malicious activity from reaching production.

How does Aqua stop lateral movement from a compromised workload?

Aqua restricts a compromised workload’s network and process activity in real time, preventing it from reaching other workloads and limiting how far an active attack can spread.

Why does evidence disappear so quickly in containers?

Containers are ephemeral. Memory and process history are lost the moment a workload terminates, so evidence has to be captured while the workload is still running or it’s gone for good.

How does Aqua reconstruct an attack?

Aqua captures memory snapshots, process lineage and runtime telemetry before a compromised workload terminates, then uses that evidence to reconstruct how the attack unfolded and what it affected.

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See runtime control stop an attack the moment it tries to execute.

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