As a major trend in 2020, enterprises have been increasingly adopting multi-cloud to elevate efficiency and maintain flexibility and independence. But multi-cloud environments are more complex and harder to secure, leading to more cloud service misconfigurations and breaches. Making matters worse, many organizations …
Threat Alert: Attack Vector Uses Containers to Methodically Target Cloud Resources
February 19, 2020
The Aqua Research team has identified a new attack vector that points to an evolution in attacks’ techniques and capabilities. In these attacks, the attackers leverage containers as an entry point to discover and spread to other resources used within cloud accounts. The attackers deployed a clean Ubuntu container, …
A CloudSploit Case Study: Trek10's Three AWS Cloud Security Concerns & One Solution
November 14, 2019
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 …
There are major shifts happening around container technology. We have seen ongoing improvements in automation tooling and changes as fully containerized workloads move into production. Companies are often running more than one production Kubernetes cluster at a time. DevOps and operations teams, subsequently, have an …
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 …
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