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Frost Radar for CNAPPs: Why is Aqua the Top Innovation Leader?

Frost Radar for CNAPPs: Why is Aqua the Top Innovation Leader?

Fifteen vendors. That’s the number of CNAPPs featured in analyst firm Frost & Sullivan’s recent radar for Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms, the first report to rank CNAPP solution providers to come out at this early stage of the market. Not surprisingly to us, Aqua came out on top (or rather, to the …

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What is a CNAPP and How to Choose the Right One

What is a CNAPP and How to Choose the Right One

A prospect’s CISO recently asked me: “I’m facing a growing stream of vulnerabilities coming from our CI/CD pipelines on the one hand, while our SecOps team is flooded with alerts and configuration issues from our production environment. How do I reconcile those separate streams and focus on what’s really important?

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Key Requirements for CWPP (Cloud Workload Protection Platforms)

Key Requirements for CWPP (Cloud Workload Protection Platforms)

Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPPs), now part of the emerging category of Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPPs), are designed to secure different types of cloud workloads — such as VMs, containers, and serverless functions — deployed in public, hybrid, or multi-cloud environments. In this …

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Protecting Cloud VMs for Full-Stack Cloud Native Security

Protecting Cloud VMs for Full-Stack Cloud Native Security

The management of Virtual Machines (VMs) in the cloud is not like anything else in your cloud native environment. Traditional host-based security methods used for VMs running on physical servers relied on agents to perform functions that simply do not exist in cloud native environments. In addition, cloud instances …

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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 …

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“Thin OS” Security for Container Hosts

“Thin OS” Security for Container Hosts

In the spectrum of deployment options available for cloud native applications, the most widely used option, at least presently, is running containers on VMs that use the Linux operating system (or less frequently, bare-metal servers running Linux).

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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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