Aqua Blog

Dror Davidoff

Dror Davidoff
Dror is the Co-Founder and CEO at Aqua. Dror has more than 20 years of experience in sales management, marketing, and business development in the enterprise software space. He has held executive positions at several emerging IT security and analytics companies. Before co-founding Aqua in 2015, he headed up global sales of Database Security Products at McAfee (Intel Security), and prior to that was EVP of Sales and Business Development at Sentrigo where he led its fast market share increase. Dror holds an MBA in Finance from City University of New York and a BA in Economics. He likes to start his day with an early morning swim in the Mediterranean.
Ensuring Business Continuity at Aqua While Israel is at War

Ensuring Business Continuity at Aqua While Israel is at War

In a world fraught with uncertainties, global companies must be prepared to ensure continuity of operations, particularly in the face of the unexpected. With locations in the US, Israel, Singapore, India, Australia and London, we understand the importance of robust business continuity planning. Following the brutal …

Continue reading ›
Accenture and Aqua Partner to Empower Cloud Security

Accenture and Aqua Partner to Empower Cloud Security

Eight years ago, Amir Jerbi and I founded Aqua Security with the aspiration of creating a better approach to securing modern cloud applications. While our journey initially focused on securing Docker technology, digital transformation and a changing threat landscape drove us to innovate further and eventually pioneer …

Continue reading ›
The Agent vs Agentless Debate is Over

The Agent vs Agentless Debate is Over

It’s humbling to see customers adopt Aqua’s cloud security vision. It’s humbling to see our predictions come true, doubly so when competitors start to follow us. The proof came over the last few months as cloud visibility vendors either released their own agent or partnered with an agent provider. This validates what …

Continue reading ›
Aqua CNAPP: From Dev to Cloud and Back

Aqua CNAPP: From Dev to Cloud and Back

RSA 2023 revealed a much-needed change in perception: cloud native security requires one integrated approach. Finally, a consensus. If you care about cloud security, you care about the lifecycle of your cloud applications. This lifecycle has two fundamental parts: building applications and running them. To secure your …

Continue reading ›
Aqua at Age Five: Recognized Market Leader and $1 Billion Company

Aqua at Age Five: Recognized Market Leader and $1 Billion Company

Today we reached an important milestone in our 5-year history – in a single funding round we’ve more than doubled our venture funding to date and achieved a valuation of $1Bn, often referred to as “unicorn” status. While I’m thrilled to have reached this milestone with Aqua, it’s not the valuation itself that I’m …

Continue reading ›
Bringing Unconstrained Flexibility to Cloud Native Security

Bringing Unconstrained Flexibility to Cloud Native Security

In the four short years since we launched Aqua and started our cloud native journey, we have all experienced dramatic change. During this time, we brought several new products to market. We witnessed the rise of Docker, then its decline. We recognized the growing popularity of Kubernetes and pivoted our capabilities …

Continue reading ›
Aqua Secures $25M in Series B Funding

Aqua Secures $25M in Series B Funding

It’s been less than a year since we announced our Series A round led by Microsoft, and what a year it’s been!

Continue reading ›
Emerging from Beta

Emerging from Beta

The early days in a start-up’s life are always interesting and fun - you focus on building stellar technology, learning the market that you’re in and building the team.

Continue reading ›
The Challenges of Bridging Containers and the Cloud

The Challenges of Bridging Containers and the Cloud

This post is the second in a two-part series on the future of containers in the cloud. The post reviews the challenges to bridging containers and the cloud, and offers advice on how to address those challenges. Read the first part on how mainstream use of the cloud has turned the spotlight on the value of containers …

Continue reading ›
Cloud Operations Will Depend on Virtualized Containers in 2016

Cloud Operations Will Depend on Virtualized Containers in 2016

This is the first in a two-part post. In this first part, I’d like to discuss how mainstream use of the cloud has turned the spotlight on the value of containers and the need to secure them. 

Continue reading ›
The Race for Security: Can VMs and Containers Really Compete?

The Race for Security: Can VMs and Containers Really Compete?

Although they have vastly different architectures, virtual machines (VMs) and containers both reliably run software when moved from one computing environment to another. Some have claimed containers will overtake the use of VMs, but until containers evolve to a level of sophistication and maturity that strongly …

Continue reading ›