Top Aqua Security alternatives for cloud-native security in 2026

This article compares Aqua Security to six CNAPP alternatives (Aikido Security, Wiz, Prisma Cloud, Sysdig Secure, Orca Security, CrowdStrike Falcon) and highlights operational trade-offs; critically, it reports that Aqua’s open-source Trivy scanner was compromised in early 2026 — attackers stole a personal access token, force-pushed malicious commits to trivy-action tags, published backdoored Trivy binaries to registries, exfiltrated CI/CD secrets from thousands of workflows, and seeded a worm across npm packages — demonstrating a high-impact supply-chain and malware incident and motivating consideration of agentless or differently architected alternatives.