COUNTRY FOCUS: ISRAEL
Israel is renowned for
its thriving cybersecurity
landscape and isn’t about to
slow in pace any time soon.
Enterprises are adapting to the
evolution of technology in the
modern age and making the
country a hub for innovation
and prosperity.
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Paving the way to a
cybersecure future
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qua Security, an Israel-based
leading platform provider for
securing container-based and cloud
native applications, has announced the
public release of Aqua Security’s runtime
protection for Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF).
Users of Pivotal’s platform can download
and install the Aqua Security for PCF
service from Pivotal Services Marketplace,
and deploy an end-to-end solution for
scanning, application assurance and runtime
protection for their application workloads.
PCF includes a widely deployed distribution
of Cloud Foundry Application Runtime (CFAR)
and allows customers to implement the same
application platform on any major vendor’s
cloud, on premises or in a hybrid model.
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“No matter where they began their
journey with Pivotal, enterprises routinely
begin pushing code into production faster
and more frequently with our platform.
Therefore, application security checks must
be accessible within the deployment pipeline
in order to scale safety and compliance,”
said Angus MacDonald, GM Technology
Ecosystem at Pivotal. • Scan their applications for vulnerabilities
during the Continuous Integration process
• Provision policies to block unauthorised
applications during the staging phase
• Scan and monitor application or
container artefacts for vulnerabilities,
malware and user activity
• Apply host assurance policies for
application or container artefacts
“Solutions such as Aqua provide the
automation and controls necessary. Together,
we hope to make the task of implementing
end-to-end security simpler for our customers.” Aqua’s advanced protection tier includes all
of the standard features with an added layer
of security, allowing users to:
Aqua Security for PCF is offered in two tiers
– standard and advanced protection. The
standard tier allows users to:
• Detect and block unapproved changes to
running application workloads
• Monitor and control application activity
based on customised policies
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