Aqua Security, the pioneer in cloud native security, announced that it has been named as a Representative Vendor in the Gartner® Market Guide for Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP). The new Gartner report examines the extensive CNAPP market and its growth potential, and it recognizes vendors as Representative Vendors. It shows the rapid evolution of the CNAPP market, emphasizing the growing attack surface of cloud native applications and the need for comprehensive protection across the application lifecycle from development to production.
“Aqua is the pioneer in cloud native security, and we believe, being recognized as a Representative Vendor for CNAPP by Gartner is a testament to our continued leadership,” said Dror Davidoff, CEO and co-founder of Aqua Security. “Since day one, Aqua has been at the forefront of innovation, setting the direction of the CNAPP market. We recognized that security for cloud native applications requires a modern approach, empowering security and dev teams with a high level of automation. We believe our recognition in this Market Guide shows Aqua’s success in building a fully integrated platform that keeps bad out of production and protects in real time.”
Aqua Security offers a comprehensive solution built for the enterprise. Aqua’s Cloud Native Security Platform (The Aqua Platform) offers a set of integrated capabilities across the full application life cycle, starting early in the software supply chain and extending all the way into production with real-time protection.
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Where Aqua Shines as a CNAPP: Full Cloud Native Application Lifecycle Protection
The Aqua Platform protects cloud native applications against both known and unknown threats with a combination of proactive shift-left guardrails and gates, and preventive and reactive runtime controls, along with risk-based prioritization and posture management capabilities.
Gartner states that CNAPPs “incorporate an integrated set of proactive and reactive security capabilities, including artifact scanning, security guardrails, configuration and compliance management, risk detection and prioritization, and behavioral analytics, providing visibility, governance and control from code creation to production runtime.”
Gartner also recommends to “prioritize comprehensive and unified CNAPPs that offer a wide range of capabilities with the necessary breadth and depth to seamlessly integrate across the entire development ecosystem and cloud platform environment.”
Aqua’s broad support for both public cloud and hybrid platforms, and deep integration into the software supply chain – from source code managers to container registries, CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure-as-Code platforms, is further testament to the company’s commitment to a seamless customer experience across the entire cloud native stack.
“Aqua Security is committed to continuous innovation and collaboration with customers and partners to secure cloud native applications,” said Rani Osnat, SVP Strategy at Aqua Security. “As the CNAPP space continues to evolve, our experience in protecting the largest cloud native environments running mission-critical applications in sectors including banking, government, technology, retail and manufacturing is proving indispensable as CNAPPs gain mainstream adoption.”
SOURCE: GlobeNewsWire