Aqua Security's Latest Report Highlights Increase in Cloud Attacks Like by Aqua Security, the creators of the Aqua Platform, published a report outlining their analysis of a year's worth of security remediation data. This report found that nearly no organization addressed all identified issues with enterprise organizations taking on average 88 days to resolve the issues they do address. Their analysis found a large increase in attacks against container-based and cloud-native infrastructure. The report provided a number of recommendations to help reduce the threat exposure. They highlight the importance of a formal, standardized remediation process regardless of organization size. David Ellis, vice president at SecurityMetrics, defines six phases in a remediation process. These include: preparation, identification, containment, eradication, recovery, and retrospective.