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Azure Container Apps (ACA) is a serverless platform for scalable containerized applications, while abstracting the underlying infrastructure. Since it runs without providing access to its underlying operating system, it has inherent security benefits, but it also presents a challenge for security and compliance tools that were not purpose-built to support such an environment. Aqua is …

As a critical next step in securing Microsoft Windows containers running on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Aqua Security has worked with Microsoft to make it easy for customers to deploy, upgrade, and auto scale deployment of cloud runtime security, assurance enforcement, networking segmentation and monitoring for AKS Windows nodes running on containerd.

Microsoft recently disclosed a security vulnerability in its Azure Container Instances (ACI) service, referred to as Azurescape. No actual exploitations were reported and, thankfully, no Azure customers were affected by this vulnerability. To clear any doubts around risks to current environments, in this post we will examine the anatomy of a possible attack leveraging Azurescape …

With hundreds of products and cloud services, Microsoft Azure Cloud offers significant capabilities, but it can be a formidable task to keep them all configured properly. However, there are a few things you can do right now to ensure the health and safety of your infrastructure.

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. …

Last month we announced support for Windows containers and automating image scanning as a step in Microsoft VSTS. I’m happy to announce that Aqua supports the new (yet to be officially released) Azure Container Registry, or ACR.