Aqua News

“Companies must consider deploying advanced AI-driven security measures to safeguard cloud environments and counteract the sophisticated strategies employed by malicious actors,” Moshe Weis, CISO of cloud native security company Aqua Security, shares in an interview.

Determining where and how best to prioritize resources can prove a complex proposition that makes the implementation of fast and effective DevSecOps collaboration frameworks difficult to achieve,” asserts Gilad Elyashar, chief product officer at Aqua Security.

As part of CRN’s Cloud 100, Aqua is featured among the top 20 cloud security companies you should know about in 2024.

The disclosure comes as cloud security firm Aqua revealed that 21.2% of the top 50,000 most downloaded npm packages are deprecated, exposing users to security risks. In other words, the deprecated packages are downloaded an estimated 2.1 billion times weekly.

“When we started the journey, there wasn’t a space,” Dror Davidoff, CEO Aqua, told IT Brew. “We did something that was extremely new. And most people didn’t even understand what it is that we do and why it’s necessary. Eight years later, it’s a space, it’s a category.”

“This attack is particularly intriguing due to the attacker’s use of packers and rootkits to conceal their malware,” researchers from Aqua Security said in a report. “The simplicity with which these techniques are employed presents a significant challenge to traditional security defenses.” 

Aqua Security, a cloud security platform with headquarters in Israel and Burlington, Mass., added $60 million in Series E funding led by Evolution Equity Partners, giving the company a valuation of more than $1 billion. 

In an arid funding landscape where much beyond low single-digit seed rounds are hard to come by, Aqua’s latest cash injection could indicate a degree of investor confidence as the company seeks new capital to power growth.