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Aikido Earns AWS Security Competency for Application Security

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Summary

Aikido says AWS awarded it the Security Competency for Application Security after technical and commercial validation. The company describes capabilities for scanning AWS workloads, containers, infrastructure as code and cloud configurations.

Key points

  • Aikido says AWS technically and commercially validated its application-security expertise and awarded the competency.
  • The platform scans Amazon EC2 for vulnerable packages, outdated runtimes and risky licenses, and Amazon ECR images for vulnerabilities, malware and outdated packages.
  • Aikido says it identifies AWS cloud and IAM misconfigurations through read-only API access.
  • The company offers Terraform and CloudFormation scanning before infrastructure deployment.
  • AI Cloud Search lets users search for exposed or misconfigured AWS resources in plain language and create real-time alerts.

Article Details

Event Type
AWS Security Competency certification announcement
Impact
AWS validated Aikido's application security capabilities and commercial track record for workloads running on AWS. The article says customers can use Aikido's security capabilities across AWS environments, including scanning cloud resources, container images, and infrastructure as code.

Vendors

AikidoWhich is a rather corporate way of saying: AWS took a proper look under Aikido's hood, checked whether our security actually works across applications running on AWS, spoke to customers, and gave us the thumbs up.Amazon Web ServicesWe're officially an AWS Security Competency Partner for Application Security.

Products

AikidoWhich is a rather corporate way of saying: AWS took a proper look under Aikido's hood, checked whether our security actually works across applications running on AWS, spoke to customers, and gave us the thumbs up.Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR)Scan Amazon ECR container images for vulnerabilities, malware and outdated packages before they reach production.AWS CloudFormationIt's your code, a mountain of open-source dependencies, containers, Terraform and CloudFormation, Lambda functions, IAM (Identity and Access Management) permissions, and increasingly, code your developers didn'tAWS EC2Scan Amazon EC2 agentlessly for vulnerable packages, outdated runtimes and risky licenses.Kiromember, an AWS Qualified Software vendor, available through AWS Marketplace, and was AWS’s AI-powered IDE Kiro's first go-to-market security partner.TerraformIt's your code, a mountain of open-source dependencies, containers, Terraform and CloudFormation, Lambda functions, IAM (Identity and Access Management) permissions, and increasingly, code your developers didn't

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