osquery is a SQL powered operating system instrumentation, monitoring, and analytics tool that exposes an operating system as a relational database. Using SQL, you can run queries to gain the status of your entire infrastructure. What’s cool about osquery is how easy it is to use the SQL query interface. kube-query …
The Aqua Research team has identified a new attack vector that points to an evolution in attacks’ techniques and capabilities. In these attacks, the attackers focused on spreading into instances that were running in the cloud. The attackers deployed a clean Ubuntu container, mounted the host file system, which …
February 17, 2020
Cloud Native Security Best Practices: Using Kubernetes Admission Controller for Image Assurance
With cloud native technologies quickly evolving and with their high adoption rate, security practices are falling behind, are not being fully applied, and in some cases, applied too late. As a result, customers pay a high, albeit avoidable price. Aqua Cloud Native Security Platform uniquely addresses these …
With serverless functions architecture gaining in popularity, it is also becoming clear that the architecture is not without its security drawbacks. Overly permissive permissions, vulnerability in the functions’ code, and embedded secrets could all be exploited. Despite being event-triggered and ephemeral by …
With the continual leftward shifting movement of traditional DevOps responsibilities, organizations can now detect security issues earlier in the software development lifecycle (SDLC). Using CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GoCD, or Bamboo, organizations can continually develop, test, and ship applications. As …
Aqua’s research team continuously investigates and analyzes the anatomy of new attacks in the wild. Recently, we identified attacks that exploited misconfigured open Docker daemons, where attackers were actively using this attack vector to hijack environments in order to launch targeted DDoS attacks. Each of the …
Aqua Security announced the general availability of CloudSploit by Aqua for Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This release comes after an extended beta program, during which we worked closely with our customers to develop and deliver a robust set of out-of-the-box policies for GCP. This release also includes a Center …
When we first published this blog post in 2017, the technology landscape for containers was quite different than it is today. Over the past two years, we have seen significant changes take place that affected, and continue to affect how Containers are adopted. As we enter the new decade, we want to recap the …
Tracee, by Aqua Security, is an open source, lightweight, and easy to use container and system tracing utility. Tracee allows you to trace events that were generated within containers only, without needing to filter out other system processes.
Steve Giguere is a DevSecOps Architect and Evangelist for Aqua. He spends his days working with organizations adopting cloud native technologies and how they can effectively secure their applications in the (relatively) new world of microservices. The evangelist part of him enjoys educating and learning from other …
Harbor is an open source cloud native artifact registry, sponsored by the CNCF, that you can use as a repository for your container images. Harbor provides support for vulnerability scanning of images to make sure they are safe to deploy. We’ve been working with the Harbor team to extend its capabilities with …