Aqua News

Approximately one month after the global launch of its Container Security Platform, Aqua today announced its first set of enhancements and is launching version 1.1 of its platform at DockerCon 2016.

New Functionality and Integrations Underscore Aqua’s Ability to Deliver Practical, Comprehensive Security Throughout the Entire Container Lifecycle DockerCon 16: Seattle Washington, June 20 2016 – One month after the global launch of its Container Security Platform, Aqua today announced its first set of enhancements, and is launching version 1.1 of its platform at DockerCon 2016. …

As security-conscious as Docker and other container platform vendors are, they can’t control or foresee how their customers will utilize containers. In a few blinks of an eye, companies will be following Goldman Sachs and BNY Mellon’s lead. Any organization evaluating a container-based strategy needs to make sure security is brought in early.

Rani Osnat, VP Marketing at Aqua, highlighted the impact of this last point in particular (and the often unexpected speed with which processes can change) saying that, “Containerized environments often work at DevOps speeds. Make sure that policy creation, policy updates, and security enforcement are all automated and integrated with CI/CD and orchestration tools.”

In building this security solution, Aqua focused on runtime protection, so everything this system does along the way enables and enforces that. There is also a high degree of automation, both in terms of policy creation and the ability to integrate with the DevOps process to trigger various events along the way in an automated fashion.

Aqua is pitching its software as “the industry’s most comprehensive solution for securing containerized environments.” It emphasizes that the platform does more than just scan images; it also provides run-time protection, access control and auditing. And it integrates with major continuous integration/continuous delivery platforms.

Peekr is Aqua’s SaaS security scanner for Docker images. The API allows you to automate vulnerability management of Docker images.

Aqua Security this week announced the general availability of the Aqua Container Security Platform. The platform wraps either Docker or Windows containers in a framework that continuously scans those containers and the images running on top of them, and also controls who can access the containers.