Aqua News

Aqua’s platform gives developers the ability to automate and improve container security and compliance posture, monitor usage and control user access. It offers granular controls over container security, supports both Docker and Windows container, and can be deployed on-premises. The platform gives users full visibility into container activity, allowing them to detect and prevent attacks and suspicious activity in real-time.

Aqua uses a layered security approach to keep containers safe… The layered approach starts with running the container application images in learning mode, usually during functional testing. In the learning mode, Aqua examines a container’s behavior in the application context and uses that to set granular runtime parameters, based on which files, executables and network connections a container is using.

Fortune 500 Beta Customers Validate Aqua’s Multilayered Approach to Protecting Software Containers Against Internal and External Threats Tel Aviv, Israel and San Francisco, CA –May 18, 2016 – Aqua Security™ (formerly named Scalock) today announced the company’s formal launch and General Availability of the Aqua Container Security Platform, the industry’s most comprehensive solution for securing …

The very features of containers that make them so cost-effective and easy to use, also bring about a new set of security challenges. Containers are vulnerable to cyber attacks in three main ways:

This audience also cares about container security, which aims to address kernel exploits, breakouts, compromised secrets and poisoned images. Innovators to watch in this space include Scalock & Twistlock and of course, the big boys – Docker Content Trust and CoreOs Tectonic.