Aqua Security, Twistlock Upgrade Their Cloud Native Security Platforms

The increasingly complex array of cloud environments used by businesses provides bad actors with great opportunities to sneak into corporate networks. It’s led cloud-native security vendors to scramble to shore up the weak spots. Two of those — Aqua Security and Twistlock — announced updates to their security platforms this week.Aqua has added two basic elements in its 4.0 release. The platform now offers what the company calls “a full chain of controls” to scan functions across any number of clouds. It scans for vulnerabilities, excessive permissions, and configuration issues, and prevents execution of functions that are not in line with policies and potentially are dangerous. The platform also now offers continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) plug-ins, sensitive data assessment, functions assurance and functions anomaly detection.The second new element in Aqua 4.0 is a set of tighter controls to secure Linux hosts that run containers. The goal is more comprehensive protections both across the application lifecycle and up and down the stack.