Aqua Security Cloud Native Protection

Aqua Security is a cloud native application protection platform that secures containerized, serverless, and VM-based applications from code development through production runtime. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Boston with offices in Israel, the company protects over 500 of the world's largest enterprises including more than 40 percent of the Fortune 100. The platform integrates code security, runtime protection, and posture management into a unified solution. Code security features identify exploitable vulnerabilities early in the development lifecycle and prioritize remediation based on actual production exposure rather than theoretical severity scores. Runtime protection stops known and unknown threats in live production environments including AI-driven attacks and prompt injection attempts using enforcement-first security controls. Posture management correlates vulnerabilities, runtime behavior, and cloud configuration context to reduce alert noise and accelerate remediation timelines. The platform supports multi-cloud and hybrid environments including AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker, VMware Tanzu, and IBM Z mainframes. It integrates with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab, Azure DevOps, and CodeFresh, as well as container registries, security tools, SIEM platforms, and analytics systems. The company's Nautilus research team conducts ongoing threat research on the cloud native attack landscape, publishing analyses of malware, vulnerabilities, and attack techniques. Aqua also develops and maintains Trivy, a widely adopted open-source security scanner for cloud native applications with an active community of contributors. Customer deployments span automotive companies like Audi, financial institutions, and government agencies that rely on the platform for container security at scale.