Aqua News

A security vulnerability can be exploited to coerce the containerd cloud platform into exposing the host’s registry or users’ cloud-account credentials. Containerd bills itself as a runtime tool that “manages the complete container lifecycle of its host system, from image transfer and storage to container execution and supervision to low-level storage to network attachments and beyond.” As …

Aqua Security sees Kubernetes security from a holistic point of view. It integrates three primary components into its set of tools, allowing Kubernetes users to basically ensure maximum security at every turn. The first component is Aqua Security’s threat assessment tool known as kube-bench—a CIS compliance tool, which performs in-depth analysis of your Kubernetes environment. …

BOSTON – October 14, 2020 – Aqua Security, the pure-play cloud native security leader, announced today it has won the 2020 CyberSecurity Breakthrough Award — a leading independent market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies and products in the global information security market today — in the “Enterprise Cybersecurity Solution of the Year” …

Most attacks targeting cloud infrastructure deploy cryptocurrency mining malware rather than execute other forms of cyber attacks, a study by Aqua Security found. The study, which took place between June 2019 and July 2020, analyzed over 16,371 attacks on honeypot servers.  The decoys were deployed to study the pattern of cyber-attacks on cloud servers. The …

Aqua Security this week announced that its open source Trivy vulnerability scanner is now available as an Aqua Security Trivy GitHub Action, which enables DevOps teams that employ GitHub to scan both source code and dependencies built using container image for vulnerabilities. Liz Rice, vice president of open source engineering for Aqua Security, says the collaboration …

Welcome to the October issue of the Aqua newsletter. Although there’s a chill in the air as fall comes to parts of the U.S., the cloud native security world is heating up with innovations, creative hackers, and news of all kinds. So, grab your favorite sweater as you read through all the news we’ve compiled …

BOSTON – October 7, 2020 – Aqua Security, the pure-play cloud native security leader, announced today that Aqua’s open source Trivy vulnerability scanner is now available as an Aqua Security Trivy GitHub Action. The action integrates with GitHub code scanning so developers can build container image scanning into their GitHub Actions workflow to find and …

Aqua Security protect applications that are built using cloud-native technologies like containers. It provides vulnerability scanning and management for orchestrators like Kubernetes. It is a comprehensive security platform to ensure that those applications running on the containers are secure, and they’re running in a safe environment. As developers build images, they have a set of technologies …