Qualys Snags Layered Insight In Container Security Play

Cloud security specialist Qualys said Tuesday it had purchased Layered Insight to up its container protection capabilities.Qualys, the Foster City, Calif.-based security software vendor, said Layered Insight's technology will bulk up the Container Security application that's part of Qualys Cloud Platform.Layered Insight, based in Pleasanton, Calif., delivers deeper visibility into applications running inside containers, allows users to set policies, automate enforcement, and detects breaches during runtime. Those capabilities extend to serverless container environments: Amazon Fargate and Microsoft Azure Container Instances. The integrated solution will automatically correlate deep runtime behavioral analysis with Qualys' leading threat protection capabilities to deliver DevOps teams unmatched runtime application protection without added container management complexity," Qualys said in a statement. The integration of the two security platforms is expected by the second half of 2019, Qualys said.Qualys has been expanding its capabilities of late through acquisitions.