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 support …

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 Aqua …

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 practices …

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 …

IT spend on public cloud will more than double by 2023 (IDC) and hybrid multi-clouds will soon be the more common environment for enterprises. The benefits of using cloud infrastructure including the ability to scale, ease of use and speed of application delivery are too attractive to ignore, however, the complexity …

This week at Velocity Berlin, I’ll be giving a talk called A Beginner’s Guide to eBPF. To coincide with it, we’re opening up a new Aqua Security open source project called Tracee, which uses eBPF to trace events in containers. This isn’t something that most developers need to do on a day-to-day basis, but for those of …

Docker clients can communicate with the daemon either locally, via a unix socket, or over a network via a TCP socket. Aqua's research team discovered an interesting attack vector running on top of an unsecured Docker socket API. Instead of running a malicious Docker image, the attacker changes the traditional …