Aqua News

ARM is increasing its footprint in the Cloud Native space and Edge computing. Companies are able to run high density, work intensive workloads on a single instance of AWS Graviton 2 at about 30% cost, making it efficient and cost-effective. Edge is already an ARM playground. With Apple’s M1 chip, there is now renewed interest …

Scans images for vulnerabilities within your CI pipeline Trivy, by Aqua Security, is a simple vulnerability scanner for containers and other artifacts. It can scan container images, Git repositories, and file systems to catch vulnerabilities within OS packages and programming-language dependencies. Trivy is also designed to be used within a CI/CD process to scan for vulnerabilities before sending to a container …

Cyber attacks on cloud systems jumped a staggering 250% from 2019 to 2020. Aqua Security’s 2020 Cloud-Native Threat Report, which analyzed 16,371 attacks that occurred between June 2019 and July 2020 using honeypot servers, showed that most attacks were targeted to use the cloud for deploying crypto-mining malware and not corporate espionage, or other types …

Rani Osnat, VP Strategy at the cloud security platform company Aqua Security, writes about getting started with your cloud native security. There are many benefits to a cloud native approach, and it is easy to see why organisations are choosing to go down this route for most, if not all, of their new applications. Cloud native …

Aqua Security — a cloud-native security leader — announced it has completed a $135 million Series E round of funding led by ION Crossover Partners, putting Aqua’s valuation in excess of $1 Billion. And the funding round included broad participation from Aqua’s existing investors, including M12 (Microsoft’s venture fund), Lightspeed Venture Partners, Insight Partners, TLV …

BOSTON – March 16, 2021 – Aqua Security, a pure-play cloud native security leader, today announced that its cloud native security platform now protects containers and Virtual Machine (VM) workloads at runtime on Arm®-powered devices. This enables Aqua customers to take advantage of the high density and cost-effectiveness provided by Arm-powered hosts and devices across …

Aqua Security, a Boston- and Tel Aviv-based security startup that focuses squarely on securing cloud-native services, today announced that it has raised a $135 million Series E funding round at a $1 billion valuation. The round was led by ION Crossover Partners. Existing investors M12 Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Insight Partners, TLV Partners, Greenspring Associates …

Tel Aviv-based Aqua Security was arguably the first true pure-play cloud native security company to emerge as cloud adoption surged over the past decade. Now five years old, and with customers including JPMorgan Chase, as well as 100 of the Fortune 500, it just secured unicorn status with a $135 million Series E funding round, …