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Aqua Security

About Aqua Security

Aqua Security sells a runtime security platform that controls what runs in the cloud. The Aqua Security Platform connects risk in code and images with live workload behavior. It monitors, detects, prevents and responds to threats across cloud native applications and workloads. It is a cloud native application protection platform built to secure applications from development through production. It protects applications across public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud and on-premises environments. It also governs AI usage and enforces policy on AI behavior at runtime.

Products

  • Dev Security: Provides software supply chain security for CI/CD pipelines and toolchains.
  • Cloud Security: Provides agentless and agent-based visibility, posture management and real-time runtime protection for cloud workloads.
  • Platform: Provides capabilities that use one source of security truth across each stage of the SDLC.

Used for

  • Scanning images and repositories for vulnerabilities, secrets and misconfigurations.
  • Monitoring process, file, network and memory behavior across containers, VMs, serverless functions and Kubernetes.
  • Prioritizing vulnerabilities using reachability, EPSS scores and evidence of active exploitation.
  • Isolating suspicious workloads before deployment to expose and contain malware.
  • Evaluating LLM prompts to block injection and jailbreak attacks before they execute.

Who it is for

  • Used in telecommunications environments.
  • Used by more than 40% of the Fortune 100.

From Aqua Security's own website, read 2026-10-23. How we build listings.

How to evaluate Cloud Security & CSPM

This is how the CIOPages Research Team evaluates this category. It is not an assessment of Aqua Security. It comes from our Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) buyer guide.

25%
Risk Prioritization & Attack-Path Analysis
Context graph that correlates misconfiguration, internet reachability, identity/permissions, vulnerabilities, secrets, and data sensitivity into ranked attack paths to crown-jewel assets; toxic-combination detection; quality of the “fix these 10” output versus raw finding volume; false-positive rate in your own accounts
20%
Coverage Model: Agentless Breadth vs. Runtime Depth
Agentless snapshot/API scanning for fast 100%-estate visibility versus agent/eBPF runtime for in-production threat detection (CDR); container, serverless, and Kubernetes (KSPM) coverage; how the two models combine without double-counting; performance impact and deployment friction
20%
Multi-Cloud & Platform Consolidation (CNAPP)
Depth and parity across AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, and Kubernetes from one console; how many of CSPM, CIEM, CWPP, DSPM, KSPM, and code/IaC security are genuinely unified on one data model versus bolted-on acquisitions; single policy and one risk score across domains
15%
Identity & Entitlements (CIEM)
Effective-permission analysis across human and machine identities, cross-account and federated role mapping, detection of unused and over-privileged entitlements, least-privilege right-sizing recommendations, and privilege escalation / lateral-movement path discovery
10%
Remediation, Automation & Developer Workflow
Guided and auto-remediation, IaC and pull-request fixes (shift-left to code), guardrails that prevent drift, ticketing/SOAR integration, ownership routing to the right team, and API/Terraform coverage for security-as-code
10%
Compliance, Reporting & SOC Integration
Out-of-the-box frameworks (CIS, PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOC 2, FedRAMP, NIST) with custom policy authoring, audit-ready evidence and drift history, RBAC/SSO on the console, and clean export of correlated cloud risk into the SIEM/SOC rather than a siloed dashboard

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Quick Facts

www.aquasec.com Pricing page
CategoryCybersecurity
SubcategoryCloud Security & CSPM
DeploymentSaaS, Self-hosted
PricingUsage-based

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