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 …

After four years of securing cloud native applications, our team at Aqua has learned a thing or two about applying best practices in the real world. We’ve seen many organizations succeed in establishing a sound process and tooling to achieve their security goals, and we’ve also seen those who struggle to prioritize …

Kubernetes 1.17 is here, and includes new features, fixes, and improvements. In this post, we will focus on several new features that Kubernetes 1.17 offers, including the Topology Aware Service routing, the Pod shared PID Namespace, scalability improvements by a new endpoint API, and more.

The AWS Security Hub SecOps tool provides a comprehensive view of security and compliance alerts across various AWS accounts.  Security findings are collected and summarized on integrated dashboards, allowing security professionals to continuously monitor their environment using automated compliance checks. The …

The premise of DevSecOps is that in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), each member is responsible for security. This unifies the operations and development teams in terms of security operations. DevSecOps’ goal is to add security to each step of the development process by integrating security controls and …

Yesterday more than 300 cloud native professionals assembled for KubeSec, what has now become a fixture as a “day zero” event for KubeCon/CloudNativeCon. As with previous events, the emphasis was on end-user organizations’ experiences in securing production environments. While many technical aspects and best …

With all the security breaches that occurred on AWS in 2017, be they caused by poorly managed Amazon S3 permissions to inadequate security group configurations, we have seen that no company or government agency is above making simple mistakes. This post will explain three areas of security we’ve noticed many AWS …