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About Aqua Security
Aqua Security is a Tel Aviv, Israel-based cloud-native security platform — privately held with $325 million raised at a $1 billion+ valuation from investors including TechAviv, Insight Partners, and Lightspeed — providing DevSecOps teams, security professionals, and enterprise cloud architects with comprehensive security for container, Kubernetes, serverless, and cloud-native application environments throughout the development lifecycle (code scan, build-time image scanning, registry security, runtime container protection) and cloud infrastructure runtime. Founded in 2015 and generating $89.9 million in revenue in 2024 (+30% year-over-year), Aqua Security serves 500+ enterprise customers including 40% of the Fortune 100 with the industry's broadest cloud-native security platform for protecting modern application architectures.
Business Model & Competitive Advantage
Aqua Security's Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) provides the layered security that Kubernetes and container deployments require: the Aqua Trivy open-source vulnerability scanner (10M+ downloads, the most widely used container security scanner) identifies CVEs in container images before deployment; Aqua's commercial platform extends runtime protection (detecting and blocking anomalous container behavior, container escape attempts, privilege escalation), compliance automation (CIS Kubernetes Benchmark, PCI-DSS, SOC 2 controls enforcement for cloud environments), and CSPM (cloud security posture management for AWS, Azure, GCP configuration). The 80% channel revenue (partners — GSIs, MSSPs, cloud marketplace distribution through AWS Marketplace) reflects Aqua's go-to-market model that leverages the DevSecOps integration ecosystem rather than requiring direct enterprise sales for every account.
Competitive Landscape 2025–2026
In 2025, Aqua Security competes in the CNAPP, container security, and cloud workload protection market with Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud (NASDAQ: PANW, comprehensive CNAPP platform), Sysdig (cloud-native security, $188M raised), and Wiz (NASDAQ: GOOGL, acquired by Google, cloud security graph analysis) for enterprise cloud-native security platform consolidation. The container security market has evolved toward comprehensive CNAPP platforms that integrate shift-left (developer-facing scanning) with shift-right (runtime protection) — point solutions for container scanning or runtime protection are being replaced by platforms that cover the full CI/CD pipeline to production. Aqua's Trivy open-source user base (one of the largest open-source security project communities) provides developer mindshare and funnel for the commercial platform. The 2025 strategy focuses on growing the Fortune 500 CNAPP consolidation deals (replacing multiple point solutions with the Aqua Platform), expanding the MSSPs (Managed Security Service Providers) channel for SMB cloud security access, and building the AI/LLM workload security capabilities for customers deploying AI model serving infrastructure.
Recent Activity
View all →Material Event filed 2026-07-01
## ⚡ Highlights ⚡ 👉 https://github.com/aquasecurity/trivy/discussions/10907 ## Changelog https://github.com/aquasecurity/trivy/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#0720-2026-06-30
## Changelog * 055a5c8a53bfd61f7a8e276a5b2f0c3fc1673420 release: v0.71.2 [release/v0.71] (#10871) * 875328a4138f26e8559cfee80adaef82b6693076 fix(deps): bump alpine to 3.24.1 [backport: release/v0.71] (#10870) * 998f7b3c3f3c9de2132bc4358970eeafbd797fba chore(deps): bump the common group with 4 updates [backport: release/v0.71] (#10867)
## Changelog * 164b383121351c2d49c5d354c2245719d972752b release: v0.71.1 [release/v0.71] (#10818) * a72d9a4d997c25fbb6534e231b4e206c9b202b31 fix(oci): validate artifact filename * 3dd98471dfbbc4a95edd5cd866468d3a8c87fd17 fix: forward ospkg detector options through ospkg.NewScanner [backport: release/v0.71] (#10825) * a62cbe40a240d3a3f568401b8a5f86e14114e371 fix(vex): load VEX documents from within the repository directory [backport: release/v0.71] (#10821) * 43d1d2628725e913db110b89419f0bebd36f58a8 fix: surface the original analysis error instead of context cancellation [backport: release/v0.71] (#10812) * ac7696c7b50d633183ce2ff44898d4b5c6eae565 ci: expect GitHub App bot as backport PR author [backport: release/v0.71] (#10815)
## ⚡ Highlights ⚡ 👉 https://github.com/aquasecurity/trivy/discussions/10767 ## Changelog https://github.com/aquasecurity/trivy/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#0710-2026-06-01
Material Event filed 2026-05-21
Quarterly Report filed 2026-05-14
Material Event filed 2026-05-14
Proxy Statement filed 2026-04-10
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Aqua Security is an emerging player bringing innovative solutions to the DevOps market.
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