Aqua News

BOSTON – July 12, 2021 – Aqua Security, the pure-play cloud native security leader, today announced the acquisition of tfsec, an open source security scanner for Infrastructure as Code (IaC). The acquisition brings an immediate integration of tfsec into Aqua Trivy, adding IaC security scanning capabilities, with additional Aqua platform integrations planned later this year. Tfsec’s co-founders will join Aqua following the acquisition. “Tfsec is the known leader in Terraform code scanning, and we’re thrilled to bring its capabilities and intelligence under Aqua’s open source and commercial umbrella,” said Amir Jerbi, CTO and co-founder …

The expansion of Aqua’s Trivy comes as enterprises transfer application security responsibilities to developers, a practice called “shift left” or “DevSecOps.” “The ratio of developers to security professionals is 50 to 1,” said Amir Jerbi, CTO and co-founder at Aqua. “Developers are being asked to do much more than before to prepare applications to be …

Aqua Security co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Amir Jerbi said tfsec is widely known as the leading tool Terraform code scanning. “We’re thrilled to bring its capabilities and intelligence under Aqua’s open source and commercial umbrella,” he added.

Amir Jerbi, Aqua Security CTO, said tfsec extends the security platform the company already provides in a way that advances adoption of DevSecOps best practices.

Aqua Security was an early pioneer of the container security space. It scans container images based on a stream of aggregate sources of vulnerability data (CVEs, vendor advisories, and proprietary research), which ensures up-to-date coverage while minimizing false positives.

Aqua Security is building a Container Framework that will be incorporated into a larger cybersecurity framework that MITRE Corp created to help organizations better defend themselves against cyberattacks.

Between June 2019 and December 2020, the team at Aqua observed that botnets are swiftly finding and infecting new hosts as they become vulnerable. The team observed 17,358 individual “honeypot” attacks with increased sophistication in terms of privilege escalation, hiding and persistence.

BOSTON – June 22, 2021 – Aqua Security, the pure-play cloud native security leader, today announces that Aqua Trivy is now the default open source container scanner for GitLab Container Scanning functionality. Customers can now automatically scan the GitLab CI pipeline container artifacts for OS package vulnerabilities. This change will take place as part of GitLab’s 14.0 release and …