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Rani Osnat

Rani is the SVP of Strategy at Aqua. Rani has worked in enterprise software companies more than 25 years, spanning project management, product management and marketing, including a decade as VP of marketing for innovative startups in the cyber-security and cloud arenas. Previously Rani was also a management consultant in the London office of Booz & Co. He holds an MBA from INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. Rani is an avid wine geek, and a slightly less avid painter and electronic music composer.
Articles by Rani Osnat
10 Kubernetes Alternatives and Why You Need Them
Learn about 10 solutions that can replace plain Kubernetes - container as a service (CaaS) like Fargate, managed Kubernetes services like GKE, and lightweight orchestrators like Nomad
Kubernetes ConfigMap: Creating, Viewing, Consuming & Managing
A Kubernetes ConfigMap is an API object that allows you to store data as key-value pairs. Kubernetes pods can use ConfigMaps as configuration files, environment variables or command-line arguments.
What Is a Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP)?
A Cloud native application protection platform (CNAPP) is a unified set of tightly integrated security and compliance functionality designed to protect cloud native applications across the entire lifecycle—from development to production.
How Does Gartner Define CNAPP? 
According to Gartner, CNAPP is a security solution that provides consistent visibility and control over all cloud-native applications. It does this by integrating multiple security capabilities into a single platform, including Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM), Cloud Workload Protection Platform (CWPP), infrastructure-as-code (IaC) scanning, cloud infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM), runtime configuration scanning, and vulnerability scanning. 
What Is Cloud Native Security?
Cloud native security is an approach to securing applications that are built and deployed in a cloud native environment. It involves securing the software's entire lifecycle—from the initial development stages to final deployment and ongoing operations. Cloud native security is not just about protecting the application at runtime, but also about ensuring the security of the codebase, the build and CI/CD infrastructure, and the software artifacts.
Microservices Security: Challenges & 7 Ways to Secure Microservices
Learn about 5 key challenges you will face when securing microservices, and best practices to help you overcome them.
What is Image Scanning?
Image scanning refers to the process of examining container images, for potential vulnerabilities or issues that could compromise security or efficiency. This technique is commonly used in cloud native environments, where images play a crucial role in ensuring system safety and integrity.
What Is a Container?
Registry Scanning: Top 5 Risks and 3 Steps to a Secure Registry
Learn why container registry scanning is critical and how to achieve continuous security for your container images.
What is an SBOM (Software Bill of Materials)?
Understand why SBOMs are critical to supply chain security, what’s in an SBOM, and best practices for creating and maintaining SBOMs.
Log4j Vulnerability: Updated Info and Protection for 2023
The Log4j exploit started as a bug, but evolved into a series of security issues, which allowed attackers to run malicious code on any system running the Log4j.
Infrastructure as Code (IaC): The Complete Guide
Everything you need to know about Infrastructure as Code (IaC) - why you need it, approaches, top 5 tools, best practices, and how to secure your IaC deployments.
Shift Left DevOps
How DevOps teams are shifting left testing & security, & discover a process for implementing shift left security in your organization.
What Is Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)?
CSPM, or Cloud Security Posture Management, offers continuous compliance monitoring, visibility into cloud infrastructure, and automated remediation.
Top 6 Cloud Vulnerabilities and Tools that Can Help
Organizations must revise their existing vulnerability management processes to account for cloud vulnerabilities, especially in public cloud environments.
Kubernetes Security Basics and 10 Essential Best Practices
Kubernetes security refers to practices and measures taken to safeguard a K8s environment, from securing the infrastructure to applications running in containers.
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