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AWS Fargate Security, and The Importance of Immutability

AWS Fargate Security, and The Importance of Immutability

Back in March we announced Aqua MicroEnforcer, a new deployment technology that enabled us to secure runtime workload running on AWS Fargate and Azure Container Instances. Since then we’ve seen a lot of interest from customers who see these services not only as a way to deploy containers on demand for spillover …

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Aqua Named 2018 Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum

Aqua Named 2018 Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum

Every year, the World Economic Forum, the same organization that assembles world leaders and business leaders in Davos, hand-picks a few dozen companies from all walks of technology (cleantech, medical, mobility, etc.) as Technology Pioneers. This year we are very proud to have been selected as one of only a handful …

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Aqua MicroScanner: Free Image Vulnerability Scanning Plugin for Jenkins

Aqua MicroScanner: Free Image Vulnerability Scanning Plugin for Jenkins

A few weeks ago we released Aqua MicroScanner, a free vulnerability scanner that you can embed into the dockerfile and automate scanning during image build.

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DevSecOps in Forward-Thinking Organizations

DevSecOps in Forward-Thinking Organizations

The DevSecOps Day event during the recent RSA conference gathered IT and security professionals from around the globe. We used that opportunity to ask them how they see the fast-emerging discipline of DevSecOps. Since respondents were those who chose to attend a DevSecOps event, they represent a more advanced segment …

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Securing Kubernetes Deployments on Amazon EKS with Aqua

Securing Kubernetes Deployments on Amazon EKS with Aqua

AWS made its Elastic Container Services for Kubernetes (EKS) generally available today. We at Aqua had access to the preview version for some time, which allowed us to ensure that our container security platform works with EKS to provide its full spectrum of runtime protection capabilities. 

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"Jack-in-the-Box" Vulnerability When Unpacking Images (CVE-2018-8115)

"Jack-in-the-Box" Vulnerability When Unpacking Images (CVE-2018-8115)

Last week, Michael Hanselmann published details of a remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2018-8115) that impacts Docker for Windows. As he described it: “Docker for Windows uses the Windows Host Compute Service Shim published and maintained by Microsoft. Its use of Go's “filepath.Join” function with unsanitized …

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Aqua Integrates with Google’s Cloud Security Command Center

Aqua Integrates with Google’s Cloud Security Command Center

Good news for those of you running container workloads on GCP - we now provide a nice integration with Google's Cloud Security Command Center. The Cloud SCC provides a centralized, single-pane-of-glass view of all security data for GCP applications, and providing actionable insights. It includes things like access …

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Aqua’s MicroScanner: Free Image Vulnerability Scanner for Developers

Aqua’s MicroScanner: Free Image Vulnerability Scanner for Developers

At Aqua we’ve been working on a new, free-to-use tool for scanning your container images for package vulnerabilities. MicroScanner uses the same vulnerability database as Aqua’s best-in-class commercial scanner, so you’re getting top-notch results.

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Popular Docker Networking and Kubernetes Networking Tools

Popular Docker Networking and Kubernetes Networking Tools

In a previous post, we explored six tools for storing data for Docker containers. Another challenge in container environments is getting containers to network in a consistent and secure manner - especially as container workloads may appear on different hosts as applications scale out, then disappear when they’re not …

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Secure Apps Across VMs and Containers with Aqua and VMware AppDefense

Secure Apps Across VMs and Containers with Aqua and VMware AppDefense

Best-of-Breed Security for Hybrid Environments

Today we announced a new partnership with VMware, based on their AppDefense solution. The combined offering provides a least-privilege security solution for applications running across containers and VMs. VMware, known of course for its virtualization technology, has deep …

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Kubernetes 1.10: What’s New in Security

Kubernetes 1.10: What’s New in Security

Kubernetes 1.10 was officially released recently, with many new enhancements and improvements. This version of Kubernetes, which is lighter on the security side compared to the recent 1.9 and 1.8 releases that were very security focused, offers several new worthy security related features.

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