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Aqua Security

Aqua Security provides cloud-native security for the full application lifecycle, protecting containers, serverless functions, and cloud workloads with vulnerability scanning, runtime protection, and compliance enforcement.

agent ready

Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Aqua Security the way a machine reads it — 115 machine-readable artifacts across 8 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Aqua Security scores 41.6/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 34/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.

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How we profile Aqua Security

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Aqua Security. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 8

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Trivy

Trivy is a comprehensive open source security scanner for containers, Kubernetes, code repositories, clouds, and more — finding vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, and ...

Tracee

Tracee is a runtime security and forensics tool for Linux that uses eBPF technology to trace system events and detect suspicious behavioral patterns.

Aqua Security Authentication API

User authentication and token management

Aqua Security Containers API

Running container monitoring and enforcement

Aqua Security Images API

Container image scanning and vulnerability management

Aqua Security Policies API

Security policy management

Aqua Security Registries API

Container registry configuration

Aqua Security Users API

User and role management

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Postman Collections 6

A runnable collection turns the contract into something a developer can execute in seconds. We profile them because the fastest way to trust an API is to make a real call against it.

Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.

Open Collections 7

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

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Arazzo Workflows 8

Real integrations are rarely a single call. Arazzo describes the multi-step sequences — auth, then create, then confirm — so both a human and an agent can follow the choreography, not just the endpoints.

Multi-step API workflows described with the Arazzo specification.

Aqua Security Create Assurance Policy

Authenticate, create an image assurance security policy, then list policies to confirm it was registered.

ARAZZO

Aqua Security Image Compliance Gate

Authenticate, poll an image scan to completion, then branch on whether critical or high vulnerabilities were found to pass or fail a compliance gate.

ARAZZO

Aqua Security Image Vulnerability Lookup

Authenticate, list registered images filtered by registry and repository, then fetch full vulnerability detail for the first match.

ARAZZO

Aqua Security Onboard Registry Image

Authenticate, confirm the target registry is configured, register an image from it, then poll the scan to completion.

ARAZZO

Aqua Security Registry Inventory

Authenticate, list configured registries, then enumerate the images registered under the first connected registry.

ARAZZO

Aqua Security Rescan And Cleanup

Authenticate, re-register an image to trigger a fresh scan, poll until it completes, then delete the image when its scan failed.

ARAZZO

Aqua Security Running Container Inventory

Authenticate, list running containers monitored by the enforcer, then read the image detail behind the first running container.

ARAZZO

Aqua Security Scan Image On Demand

Authenticate, register a container image for scanning, then poll until the scan completes and read its vulnerability counts.

ARAZZO

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MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers expose these APIs directly to AI agents. We profile them because agent-native access is the fastest-growing way this provider's capabilities actually get used.

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

MCP Server

MCP SERVER

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Aqua Security Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Features 8

The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

Vulnerability Scanning

Comprehensive scanning of container images, VM workloads, and serverless functions for known CVEs and misconfigurations.

Runtime Protection

Real-time protection of running containers and cloud workloads using behavioral analysis and policy enforcement.

CSPM

Cloud Security Posture Management to identify and remediate misconfigurations across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

Supply Chain Security

Protect the software supply chain by scanning code, open source dependencies, and CI/CD pipelines.

Kubernetes Security

Native Kubernetes security including admission control, runtime policies, and compliance benchmarks.

Compliance Enforcement

Automated compliance checks against CIS, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, NIST, and other regulatory frameworks.

Secrets Detection

Detect and prevent secrets and credentials from being embedded in container images and code repositories.

Network Policy

Visualize and enforce container network connectivity and micro-segmentation policies.

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Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Aqua Security Api Context

20 classes · 28 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

Aqua Security API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

Aqua Security API Rules

36 rules · 12 errors · 21 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 17

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

ContainerList

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Container

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ErrorResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ImageDetail

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ImageList

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ImageRequest

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Image

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

LoginRequest

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

LoginResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PolicyList

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PolicyRequest

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Policy

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

RegistryList

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Registry

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

UserList

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

User

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

VulnerabilityCounts

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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JSON Structure 17

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Aqua Security Api Container List Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Aqua Security Api Container Structure

6 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Aqua Security Api Error Response Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Aqua Security Api Image Detail Structure

11 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Aqua Security Api Image List Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Aqua Security Api Image Request Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Aqua Security Api Image Structure

7 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Aqua Security Api Login Request Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Aqua Security Api Login Response Structure

1 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Aqua Security Api Policy List Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Aqua Security Api Policy Request Structure

4 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Aqua Security Api Policy Structure

4 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Aqua Security Api Registry List Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Aqua Security Api Registry Structure

5 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Aqua Security Api User List Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Aqua Security Api User Structure

4 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

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Examples 17

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

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Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Aqua Security Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Aqua Security Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Aqua Security Agentic Access

10 operations · 4 acting

10 operations · 4 acting

AGENTIC

Use Cases 6

What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.

What developers build with this provider.

Container Security

Secure Docker and OCI containers throughout the build-to-runtime lifecycle.

Kubernetes Security

Enforce security policies, runtime protection, and compliance for Kubernetes clusters.

Serverless Security

Protect AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, and Google Cloud Functions from vulnerabilities and runtime attacks.

DevSecOps

Integrate security scanning into CI/CD pipelines to shift security left and prevent vulnerabilities from reaching production.

Cloud Workload Protection

Protect VMs and cloud workloads across multi-cloud environments from threats and misconfigurations.

SBOM Generation

Generate Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) for container images and code repositories to understand component risk.

Integrations 10

Pre-built integrations with other platforms tell you where this provider already fits in a stack.

Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.

AWS

Native integrations with AWS ECS, EKS, Lambda, ECR, Security Hub, and other AWS services.

Azure

Integrations with Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Container Registry, and Azure Security Center.

Google Cloud

Support for GKE, Google Container Registry, and Cloud Run on Google Cloud Platform.

GitHub Actions

Trivy GitHub Action for automated vulnerability scanning in CI/CD workflows.

Jenkins

Jenkins plugin for container image scanning and policy enforcement in pipelines.

Terraform

Terraform provider for declarative management of Aqua Security platform configuration.

Helm

Official Helm charts for deploying Aqua Security components on Kubernetes.

Splunk

Integration with Splunk for centralized security event logging and SIEM.

PagerDuty

Alert routing to PagerDuty for runtime security event notifications.

Slack

Security alert notifications delivered to Slack channels.

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Resources

Every other property we hold for Aqua Security — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Company 3

The organization behind the API

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Where this information came from

This is an independent, third-party profile of Aqua Security, published by API Evangelist. We do not operate, host, resell, or support these APIs, and we are not affiliated with or endorsed by the company unless stated above. Everything here is built from publicly available information — the company's own site, developer portal, documentation, public repositories, and the specifications it publishes for public use. Nothing is obtained by breaching a system, defeating an access control, or using credentials.

The Kin Score and Agent Readiness rating are independently calculated assessments of a company's public API artifacts, scored against a published rubric. They are not certifications, endorsements, security assessments, or audits.

Corrections, re-scores, and removal are free — no partnership or purchase required, and you do not need to justify the request. A removed company is recorded as unrated, never scored zero for having asked. Acknowledgement within one business day; removal within two.

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