BURLINGTON, Mass. — February 12, 2026 — Leads & Copy — Aqua Security is embarking on a new phase centered on helping enterprises reduce cloud risk faster and more effectively. The company is sharpening its operating model, leadership focus, and product execution to deliver measurable improvements in response time, remediation efficiency, and production protection.
As cloud-native and AI-driven software development accelerate, security teams face increasing pressure to reduce noise, prioritize real exposure, and prevent compromise in production.
Aqua is refining how its teams collaborate, respond, and deliver, recognizing that modern security must continuously adapt as applications become more dynamic and harder to defend. The company’s customer-centric operating model emphasizes:
Simplified deployment and operation of runtime exposure management at enterprise scale.
Reduced operational burden by minimizing time spent investigating and curating non-exploitable vulnerabilities.
Clear quantification of true business risk grounded in production context, not “toxic assumptions.”
Seamless integration with the enterprise security ecosystem, amplifying existing investments and reducing operational complexity.
Reduced mean time metrics that matter across production environments.
Cloud native development has become a competitive differentiator for enterprises, but that maturity has introduced new challenges. AI-assisted development is dramatically increasing the speed and volume at which vulnerabilities enter CI/CD pipelines, pushing even well-resourced vulnerability management teams beyond their limits.
Many organizations now operate overlapping “platforms of platforms,” resulting in alert fatigue, unclear ownership, and operational inefficiency.
Enterprises need best-of-breed partners that operate at cloud native speed, understand real production risk, and apply active controls where compromise actually occurs: at runtime.
Aqua combines vulnerability intelligence with deep runtime context to help customers focus on what truly matters. By validating compensating controls in live environments, Aqua enables smarter prioritization, faster remediation, and lower operational burden.
To support this customer-centric transformation, Aqua has strengthened its leadership team with appointments designed to improve execution, increase customer proximity, and support scalable growth.
Mike Dube has been appointed chief executive officer. Nir Makovski has been appointed chief technology officer.
Sean McGowan was promoted to chief revenue officer. Maayan Arbili was promoted to chief customer success officer. Matt Richards was appointed chief operating officer. Hadas Finkleman joined Aqua as chief financial officer. Ayelet Hammar joined as chief human resources officer.
“As AI and cloud native development accelerate, customers need trusted, domain-focused partners who move fast, listen closely, and deliver protection that works in production,” said Mike Dube, chief executive officer of Aqua Security. “This next phase of Aqua is about assisting our customers to operationalize prevention and remediation of true business risk, as opposed to investigating volumes of ‘toxic assumptions’. The best place to do that is runtime.”
Aqua Security protects what runs in the cloud. Founded in 2015, Aqua is headquartered in Boston, MA and Ramat Gan, Israel, and protects more than 500 of the world’s largest enterprises.
Source: Aqua Security
