Aqua Security has been awarded the CyberSecurity Solution of the Year for Artificial Intelligence by the ninth annual CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards for its innovative Aqua Secure AI platform. This recognition highlights Aqua's leadership in providing full lifecycle security for AI applications in cloud native environments, addressing the rapid expansion of AI workloads amid evolving threats.
Aqua Security, a leader in cloud native security, has earned the prestigious CyberSecurity Solution of the Year for Artificial Intelligence award from the ninth annual CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards. This accolade, announced on October 9, 2025, celebrates Aqua Secure AI's groundbreaking approach to securing AI applications throughout their lifecycle in Kubernetes and other cloud native environments. By embedding protection directly at the application layer, the solution ensures robust defense without compromising performance or requiring code modifications.
Aqua Secure AI combines comprehensive development visibility with intelligent runtime safeguards, monitoring prompt behaviors and model usage to enforce context-aware policies in real time. It effectively counters threats such as prompt injection, jailbreaks, and unsafe model interactions, all without the need for SDKs or proxies. The platform's embedded agent delivers 100% visibility into workloads, offering unified insights across development, infrastructure, and runtime stages to support continuous, policy-driven governance for AI initiatives.
As projections indicate over a billion new AI applications by 2028—many containerized—Aqua Secure AI tackles the expanding attack surface with a future-proof framework. “We set out to address the widening gap between modern security needs and what traditional tools can deliver. Built on our decade of container security expertise, Secure AI offers a scalable, future-proof solution that outpaces both threat actors and industry peers,” said Dror Davidoff, co-founder and CEO of Aqua Security. “As analysts predict over a billion new AI applications by 2028, with most running in containers, our focus remains on securing this rapidly expanding attack surface.”
The awards program, which drew thousands of nominations from over 20 countries, underscores Aqua's role in advancing global cybersecurity innovation amid a complex threat landscape.
“Aqua Secure AI delivers full lifecycle security tailored for the modern stack, empowering organizations to innovate with GenAI while staying in control,” said Steve Johansson, managing director, CyberSecurity Breakthrough. “With Aqua Security, organizations can finally keep pace with the velocity of innovation. In a space cluttered with outdated tools and narrow use cases, Aqua stands out with a unified, intelligent, and deeply embedded approach to securing the future of AI and cloud-native development.”
Aqua's unified CNAPP integrates agentless and agent-based controls with runtime security, supporting diverse environments from cloud to on-prem and hybrid setups. This positions organizations to innovate confidently in AI and cloud native development.
Aqua Secure AI's award-winning capabilities empower enterprises to protect AI-driven innovations with precision, ensuring resilience and compliance in an era of accelerating digital transformation.
Aqua Security protects every cloud native application from code to cloud to prompt. As the pioneer in container and AI workload security, Aqua delivers full lifecycle protection across every stage of the development lifecycle in real time. Our unified CNAPP combines agentless and agent-based controls with industry-leading runtime security for cloud, on-prem, hybrid, multi-cloud, VM and mainframe environments. The Aqua Platform provides best-in-class security agents, scanning powered by Trivy, and advanced contextual vulnerability management to reduce noise and accelerate remediation. Founded in 2015, Aqua is headquartered in Boston, MA and Ramat Gan, Israel and secures more than 40% of the Fortune 100. Learn more at aquasec.com.
Part of Tech Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence and recognition platform for global technology innovation and leadership, the CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards program is devoted to honoring excellence in information security and cybersecurity technology companies, products and people. The CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards provide a platform for public recognition around the achievements of breakthrough information security companies and products in categories including Cloud Security, Threat Detection, Risk Management, Fraud Prevention, Mobile Security, Web and Email Security, UTM, Firewall and more.
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