Mitigating Container Image Vulnerabilities with Aqua Vulnerability Shield™

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Mitigating Container Image Vulnerabilities with Aqua Vulnerability Shield™

Managing known vulnerabilities in container images has been one of the first issues to get the attention of organizations that adopt containers. Knowing what vulnerabilities (CVEs) lurk in your image code is important, but fixing or patching the images that contain vulnerabilities has been a challenge, since it’s not always easy, speedy, or even possible …

Security Configuration Benchmarks for Kubernetes

When you’re running Kubernetes, how do you know whether it’s configured securely? Kubernetes is a complex system, with several control plane components, each of which has numerous configuration parameters. In some cases, it’s clear that a parameter will have an impact on Kubernetes security – for example, providing keys and certificates for setting up secure …

Securing AWS App Mesh With Aqua

We’re excited to be launch partners for AWS App Mesh, officially announced today at the Santa Clara AWS Summit. Aqua provides fine-grained protection to microservices-based applications that use AWS App Mesh, by ensuring that the microservices infrastructure conforms to the organization’s security policy, and by providing visibility and control over App Mesh network traffic.

How to Secure Amazon ECS Workloads On Demand

In support of Amazon’s announcement this week at re:Invent surrounding the new AWS Container Marketplace, we’ve made the Aqua Container Security Platform available for on-demand consumption (pay as you go), via the newly minted AWS Container category in the Marketplace. We have several new listings in the AWS Marketplace, but in this blog I’ll cover …

Serverless Security: The Importance of FaaS Risk Assessment

In my previous blog, I discussed the serverless services spectrum and the unique security considerations of serverless functions. In this post, I’d like to elaborate on the importance of preliminary risk assessment checks and their contribution to an effective security strategy, based on lessons learned in containerized workloads environments.

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 …

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 …

Aqua MicroScanner: Free Image Vulnerability Scanning Plugin for Jenkins

A few weeks ago we released Aqua MicroScanner, a free vulnerability scanner that you can embed into the dockerfile and automate scanning during image build.

Preparing Container-Based Applications for GDPR: What You Need to Know

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), set to replace the European Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC, comes into effect in May 2018. GDPR is intended to protect the privacy of EU citizens, and give regulatory bodies the power to act against non-compliant organizations. It affects member states in the EU, but also companies handling EU citizens’ …

2017 in Review: Major Developments in the Container Ecosystem

From a “humble” $762 million in 2016, containers are predicted to grow faster than any other technology this year (as well as the next) and are on the way to become a $2.7B industry by 2020.

How Aqua Scans Container Images On-Demand From The AWS Marketplace

Today we announced the availability of a new offering on AWS – our on-demand, pay-per-scan security scanner for container images is now available in the AWS Marketplace. The scanner is a full-featured version of Aqua’s image scanning capabilities found in the Aqua Container Security Platform, but with a licensing mechanism that enables a pay-per-scan model, …

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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.

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