Today’s #1 Attack: Zero-day exploits of new and previously unknown vulnerability in apps and OSs

Container Security Top Challenges: Lack of adequate and disparate security tools, vulnerabilities in images, and the need for granular access-control between containers

This isn't a story about a Docker vulnerability; it's a story about how hackers are looking for unsecured Docker deployments where they can mine cryptocurrency. You shouldn't leave your Docker daemon unsecured  any more than you would leave your mail server unsecured.

We’ve heard many accounts of attempted …

About Meltdown and Spectre

Following the trend of ‘branding’ vulnerabilities, Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities (CVE-2017-5754, CVE-2017-5753, and CVE-2017-5715) are ‘brand’ names given to currently known variants of vulnerabilities of a similar nature, related to speculative execution. The general idea is …

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

This article was originally published in HelpNetSecurity.com

We are all aware of the risks introduced by good old third party code. Where would we be without it? Apparently not very far: It is estimated that between 30 to 70 percent of code comes from 3rd party applications. This is why we patch up old libraries …

We’re glad to announce version 2.5 of the Aqua Container Security Platform, which includes hundreds of improvements and new features. Our main focus has been on making the platform more scalable for our customer deployments, which include some of the world’s largest container setups.

Since 1996, the HIPAA act has mandated how personal health information (PHI) should be secured and protected from prying eyes. HIPAA requirements changed how companies in the healthcare industry treat patient data, as well as the processes governing it, the applications that handle it, and the infrastructure that …

We wrote them and you loved them. Here’s a recap of the posts you shared, engaged, tweeted, liked, repurposed and gave us feedback on the most. So if you’ve been searching for updates about the container ecosystem, look no further, these are the top 5 Aqua blog posts.

[ Upesh recently joined the Aqua team as our VP of Business Development. Upesh has an amazing track record in the cybersecurity space in getting innovative start-ups embedded with major IT vendors and ecosystem players. This is his “30 days at Aqua” blog  - Rani ]

How long have security practitioners been trying to …

Red Hat OpenShift container platform is one of the popular and mature platforms for developing and managing container deployments. While it has many built-in security features, Aqua provides an additional layer of security both in development as well as for protecting containerized applications in runtime.