Endangered artifacts and container images
A pioneer in cloud-native security has discovered thousands of exposed registries and artifact repositories containing over 250 million artifacts and over 65.000 container images. Many of these artifacts and images contained highly confidential and sensitive proprietary code and "secrets". Aqua's team of IT security researchers, Team Nautilus, uncovered misconfigurations that put thousands of companies of all sizes at risk worldwide - including five from the Fortune 500 and two major IT security vendors. At IBM, for example, an internal container registry was exposed to the Internet: After Nautilus researchers informed the local security team, Internet access to these environments was closed and the risks minimized. Aqua has…