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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 …

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 …

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. …

When the Mirantis team announced the Lens Extensions API back in November 2020, we were excited to experiment with it and build an extension for Starboard, our open source Kubernetes native security toolkit. True to DevSecOps principles, the integration makes security reports accessible within Lens IDE, giving you immediate and actionable information about potential security …

What were you doing four years ago? Perhaps in 2017 you were, like many people, entirely unaware of the way that containers and cloud computing would take the world by storm. Back then, there were companies just taking baby steps towards containerization – don’t feel bad if you were running one container per virtual machine, …

Back in November 2020, we introduced the Starboard Operator, which automates vulnerability scanning in a Kubernetes environment. We’re now pleased to announce the latest release (release v0.9) which adds configuration auditing using Polaris. This means that the Operator can automatically check for weaknesses in the way your Kubernetes workloads are configured, as well as scan …

Back in June 2020, we released Starboard – an open source toolkit that integrates security tools into a Kubernetes environment. We’re now happy to announce a new Starboard Operator that automates the generation of security reports in your K8s cluster. Using Starboard Operator, you can rely on the tools you’re already familiar with, like kubectl, …

Modern-day CI/CD pipelines enable new security approaches and transform the DevOps landscape to accommodate a variety of safety nets into the software supply chain. GitHub Actions is an example of one of those safety nets, making it possible to perform a variety of pipeline steps (build, test, and deploy) from within GitHub. We saw this …

We have some exciting news about two new features in Tracee, Aqua’s open source container and system tracing utility. Now, Tracee is much more than just a system call tracer, it’s a powerful tool that can be used to perform forensic investigations and dynamic analysis of binaries – both are incredibly useful when looking for hidden malware. Tracee can provide users with timely insights that previously required special knowledge and tools.

For most of us developers, our container security protocol involves some sort of static image scan for vulnerabilities. Unfortunately, to do this usually involves jumping out of one type of software program, like a code editor, to open a completely separate tool to perform the scanning. Well, the open source team at Aqua recognized the …

There are lots of security tools in the cloud native world, created by Aqua and by others, for identifying and informing users about security issues in Kubernetes environments. However powerful and useful they might be, they tend to sit alongside Kubernetes, with each new product requiring users to learn a separate set of commands and …

In our view, making security tools easy to use is one of the best ways to increase adoption and help end users improve the security of their deployments. One of the strengths of our open source vulnerability scanner for container images, Trivy, is that it’s very easy to install and to integrate into different workflows. That’s …