Aqua Security announced its expansion into cloud security posture
management (CSPM) with its acquisition of CloudSploit.
CloudSploit's
SaaS-based platform allows customers to monitor their public cloud accounts
within minutes, providing visibility to their entire estate of cloud resources,
and reduce threats due to misconfiguration and vulnerabilities. CloudSploit
automatically manages cloud security risk and benchmarks against industry
standards to ensure compliance and has garnered impressive adoption among
enterprise customers.
"We
are excited to add CloudSploit to Aqua's cloud-native security portfolio," said
Dror Davidoff, CEO of Aqua Security. "Aqua protects the world's largest cloud
native environments; with CloudSploit our customers can now continuously
monitor and manage their cloud security posture across their multi-cloud
infrastructures."
CloudSploit
continues Aqua's investment in the open source community. Co-founded by Matthew
Fuller and Josh Rosenthal, CloudSploit was built on open source foundations and
has benefited from the contribution of cloud users and experts since its
inception in 2015. The SaaS platform addresses real-world threat scenarios and
configuration challenges of enterprise users who are continually monitoring
their environments to ensure their adherence to best practices and compliance.
CloudSploit is the second open source investment by Aqua since August, when the
company announced its acquisition of Trivy Vulnerability
Scanner.
Aqua
can now address both Container Security and Cloud Security Posture Management
(CSPM). These are two of the top 10 security projects named in Gartner's Top 10
Security Projects for 2019 report.
In
its Market Guide for Cloud Workload Protection Platforms, Gartner also notes
that: "With the growing complexity of cloud-based configurations, complete
protection strategies will require a CSPM to ensure continuous, correct and
compliant cloud configuration and identification of excessive risk."
Aqua
has also added significant new capabilities to its Cloud Native Security Platform
(CSP), deepening protection of virtual machines. Aqua CSP now protects VMs for
complete cloud workload protection. Aqua's VM security solution delivers file
integrity monitoring, machine image assurance, network discovery and
micro-segmentation to hosts for full visibility of infrastructure and
application threats. Organisations can now protect their cloud native workloads
from a single control plane for improved visibility and efficient remediation.
With
the addition of CloudSploit and VM Security, Aqua's customers can more
effectively manage risk and protect against threats for their multi-cloud
environments across the full application stack, from infrastructure,
application workloads and code. To learn more about CloudSploit by Aqua visit
CloudSploit page,
and additional information on Aqua's VM Security solution visit
Cloud VM page.