Mitigating Credential Stuffing Attacks in the Financial Sector

If You Think Multi-Factor Authentication Prevents Credential Stuffing, Think Again! Financial services firms around the world are experiencing credential stuffing attacks at an alarming rate. Cybercriminals are using readily available automation tools, botnets, and compromised account credentials...

March 2020 -- What's New in Security, Part 1

Welcome to Akamai's March 2020 Release! This release offers a week of product updates, with each day highlighting continued innovations across a different area of Akamai's product portfolio: Monday and Tuesday feature two days of security updates. There's a lot going on in Akamai's security...

March 2020 -- Akamai Edge Security: Leader in Five Forrester Wave Reports

Forrester has named Akamai a Leader in five different Wave and New Wave reports. This significant achievement reflects the strength of Akamai's intelligent edge platform for securing and delivering digital experiences across our entire security portfolio. Forrester Wave Leaders are the top vendor...

Automated Attacks Call for Automated Protection – 2020 Trend #3

In our blog series on security trends, we’ve been diving deeper into the five security predictions for 2020 made by our CTO Kunal Anand during his fireside chat with Imperva CMO David Gee. Watch it here. As I'll discuss in my upcoming blog on defense-in-depth and reducing risk, being “connected”...

New Research From Imperva Bot Management Tracks Gift Card Abuse

Researchers at Imperva Bot Management formerly Distil Networks have been tracking online bots that target the e-commerce gift card systems of major online retailers. The threat actors they’ve studied show remarkable resourcefulness and adaptability. In a recent podcast, Imperva Bot Management’s...

A Leader in the 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for WAF, Six Years Running

Gartner has published its 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Web Application Firewalls WAF and Imperva has been named a Leader for the sixth consecutive year! Along with our WAF Gateways and easy-to-deploy Cloud WAF we recently added API Security, RASP, Account Takeover Protection, Bot Management, a...

A New Chapter in Bot Management Begins Today [Video]

I am excited to share that we have closed the acquisition of Distil Networks, the pioneer and leader in Bot Management. Over the past few weeks, we have been welcoming Distil’s employees into the Imperva family and have started integrating their powerful, analyst-recognized Bot Management solutio...

Imperva to Acquire Distil Networks, the Leader in Bot Management

As an established leader in cybersecurity, Imperva provides our customers the most comprehensive, analyst-recognized application security solution on the market. We are a five-time leader in Gartner’s 2018 Magic Quadrant for Web Application Firewalls WAF. Our DDoS Protection continues to...

March Release: Q&A with Ari Weil

Shortly after Akamai announced the March 2019 Release with new features and capabilities across its security, performance and media product lines, Akamai's VP of Product Marketing, Ari Weil, took over Akamai's Twitter account for a live March Release Q&A. For those that missed the live event,...

Akamai Received Top Scores in Gartner's New Report "Critical Capabilities for Cloud Web Application Firewalls Services"

Are you in the process of selecting a web application firewall WAF or thinking about whether your current solution is adequate? For many organizations selecting the right WAF to protect their business is not an easy task. The threat landscape is changing fast and hackers are very creative in thei...

WhoAmIMailBot - A Service To Mask Your Email

What is it? A service to mask your e-mails, it was inspired by Blur service, where you create a alias for your e-mail, and use it to signup on applications, but the problem on Blur, is that all e-mails pass trough they infraestructure, and I don't need anybody looking on my e-mails, to solve that...