At DockerCon earlier this month, Docker and Arm announced a joint venture in which new Docker-based solutions will be available to the Arm ecosystem. Docker and Arm touted this synergy as a way for developers to leverage containers, both remote and on-premises, in an easier way. There …
For the second time, Aqua will host the KubeSec Enterprise Summit next week, together with our co-hosts AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Red Hat. The event is co-located with KubeCon/CloudNativeCon in Barcelona and will take place on Monday, May 20th. Unlike other co-located events, this full day program …
A new vulnerability that impacts Alpine Docker images was published last week. The vulnerability is due to the ‘root’ user password which is set, by default, to NULL on Alpine Docker images from version 3.3 or higher.
Aqua recently developed a Kubernetes Operator that was successfully tested and validated by Red Hat standards for integration and supportability. Before we tell you about our new OpenShift-certified Operator, let’s get some context about what an Operator is.
Now that containers have been around for a few years and have had their share of disclosed vulnerabilities, it’s time to revisit some of the more interesting ones and see if there’s a recurring theme or any underlying trend to highlight.
A few days ago, Docker discovered that a database holding the credentials of some 190,000 Docker Hub accounts was exposed to unauthorized access (about 5% of all Docker Hub accounts). We’ve been getting questions from customers on this, so I wanted to set the record straight on what we know and what we recommend …
Knative is the newest member of serverless environments that is gaining significant interest and generating a great deal of hype in the Kubernetes/Cloud Native community. It’s an open source framework that was designed to enable the development and deployment of container-based serverless applications that are easy …
When you’re running Kubernetes, how do you know whether it’s configured securely? Kubernetes is a complex system, with several control plane components, each of which has numerous configuration parameters. In some cases, it’s clear that a parameter will have a security impact – for example, providing keys and …
In their recent research note, “Top 10 Security Projects for 2019”*, Gartner analysts highlighted ten initiatives that Security and Risk Management leaders should implement or improve in 2019. Container security is on this list.
We’re excited to be launch partners for AWS App Mesh, officially announced today at the Santa Clara AWS Summit. Aqua provides fine-grained protection to microservices-based applications that use AWS App Mesh, by ensuring that the microservices infrastructure conforms to the organization’s security policy, and by …
A new medium severity vulnerability in the open source Kubernetes has been disclosed (CVE-2019-1002100) that can, if exploited, lead to a denial-of-service on the K8s API server, which in turn may lead to the cluster becoming inoperable.
The best mitigation is to remove the “patch” permissions from untrusted users, …
