Report by Gartner Highlights Maturing Options for Securing Containers

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Report by Gartner Highlights Maturing Options for Securing Containers

Gartner recently released a Technical Professional Advice report titled “Container Security — From Image Analysis to Network Segmentation, Options Are Maturing”* (by Joerg Fritsch and Michael Isbitski, 28 August 2018), with a detailed analysis of the space, including open source tools and commercial solutions. We’re pleased to see Aqua mentioned in this report, both for …

RUNTIME SECURITY

Out-of the-Box Policies Simplify Container Compliance

One of the challenges organizations have in using cloud native technologies is in figuring out how compliance requirements translate into actionable control points. Most regulations predate containers and serverless technologies and don’t have specific articles governing the use of such technologies. We recently released Aqua 3.2, where we rolled out key compliance controls pre-configured as …

CONTAINER SECURITY

Preventing Container Breakouts with Dynamic System Call Profiling

Recently, IBM researchers weighed in on container isolation, having developed an algorithm for measuring how well it works, and reached the conclusion that “a Docker container with a well crafted seccomp profile (which blocks unexpected system calls) provides roughly equivalent security to a hypervisor.“

CONTAINER SECURITY

AWS Fargate Security with Sidecars

A few months ago we launched the Aqua MicroEnforcer, the first solution for providing runtime protection to a container running in Containers-as-a-Service platforms like AWS Fargate or Azure Container Instances. The mechanism I wrote about at the time involved building a protected version of a container image being deployed, by adding the MicroEnforcer executable into …

RUNTIME SECURITY

AWS Fargate Security, and The Importance of Immutability

Back in March we announced Aqua MicroEnforcer, a new deployment technology that enabled us to secure runtime workload running on AWS Fargate and Azure Container Instances. Since then we’ve seen a lot of interest from customers who see these services not only as a way to deploy containers on demand for spillover capacity, or for …

KUBERNETES SECURITY

Kubernetes Security Deep-Dive

Since the second half of 2017, Kubernetes has been gaining momentum in adoption as well as in its ecosystem support. We see more and more enterprises choosing Kubernetes for the orchestration of their cloud native deployments. This is in no small part thanks to the many enterprise-grade features added in versions 1.8 and 1.9, including …

CLOUD WORKLOAD PROTECTION

Revisiting AWS Fargate with Aqua

A few months ago I was lucky enough to get my hands on Fargate when it was in preview in the run-up to AWS re:invent. It was immediately clear that it’s a pretty cool concept, and that it presents a new challenge for security solutions like Aqua, because of the lack of a “host” entity …

PARTNERS & ALLIANCES

Securing Container Workloads on AWS with Aqua

Many of our customers run container workloads on AWS – hardly surprising given Amazon’s lead position in the cloud market. But AWS also offers some distinct advantages to those running containers, including a set of highly-integrated services that take the pain away from managing deployments.

CLOUD WORKLOAD PROTECTION

Securing Containers on OpenShift

Red Hat OpenShift container platform is one of the popular and mature platforms for developing and managing container deployments. While it has many built-in security features, Aqua provides an additional layer of security both in development as well as for protecting containerized applications in runtime.

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