Aqua News

BOSTON – July 19, 2021 – Aqua Security, the pure-play cloud native security leader, today announced that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Aqua to its 2021 Emerging Vendors list in the Security category. This annual list honors new and up-and-coming technology vendors that have proven their commitment to innovation and growth …

With 465,000 cybersecurity job openings in the United States, why is recruiting so difficult? Biagio DeSimone, Enterprise Solution Architect, Aqua Security offers his take.

As the summer carries on, the cloud native security world is not taking a vacation. Grab your perfect cold brew as you read through an interesting survey about K8s and cloud native usage from Canonical, the updates in the Docker and K8s CIS Benchmarks, or what your security team needs to know about container orchestration and tools. And be …

BOSTON – July 12, 2021 – Aqua Security, the pure-play cloud native security leader, today announced the acquisition of tfsec, an open source security scanner for Infrastructure as Code (IaC). The acquisition brings an immediate integration of tfsec into Aqua Trivy, adding IaC security scanning capabilities, with additional Aqua platform integrations planned later this year. Tfsec’s co-founders will join Aqua following the acquisition. “Tfsec is the known leader in Terraform code scanning, and we’re thrilled to bring its capabilities and intelligence under Aqua’s open source and commercial umbrella,” said Amir Jerbi, CTO and co-founder …

The expansion of Aqua’s Trivy comes as enterprises transfer application security responsibilities to developers, a practice called “shift left” or “DevSecOps.” “The ratio of developers to security professionals is 50 to 1,” said Amir Jerbi, CTO and co-founder at Aqua. “Developers are being asked to do much more than before to prepare applications to be …

Aqua Security co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Amir Jerbi said tfsec is widely known as the leading tool Terraform code scanning. “We’re thrilled to bring its capabilities and intelligence under Aqua’s open source and commercial umbrella,” he added.

Amir Jerbi, Aqua Security CTO, said tfsec extends the security platform the company already provides in a way that advances adoption of DevSecOps best practices.

Aqua Security was an early pioneer of the container security space. It scans container images based on a stream of aggregate sources of vulnerability data (CVEs, vendor advisories, and proprietary research), which ensures up-to-date coverage while minimizing false positives.