Aqua Security focuses squarely on securing cloud-native workloads — containers, Kubernetes, serverless functions, and VMs. The company was one of the first to recognize that traditional endpoint security simply doesn’t work in ephemeral, container-based environments.
The Aqua Platform provides full-lifecycle protection: scanning images in CI/CD pipelines, enforcing runtime policies inside containers, and detecting drift from known-good configurations. Its runtime protection uses eBPF-based sensors for deep visibility without sidecar containers.
Aqua also maintains several popular open-source projects. Trivy is widely used for container image scanning, Tracee provides runtime security tracing, and kube-bench checks Kubernetes cluster configurations against CIS benchmarks. These tools have millions of downloads and a strong community behind them.
The platform supports every major container orchestrator and cloud provider. Customers include PayPal, Intuit, and the U.S. Department of Defense. For organizations going all-in on containers and microservices, Aqua provides the kind of granular, workload-level security that general-purpose tools can’t match.
