Bots Hide Behind User Privacy – Should You Be Concerned?

Bot operators are perpetually devising innovative techniques to sneak past security as they go about their dubious, often downright illegal business. Emulating human behavior and traffic patterns are key elements of their strategy. One of the many layers comprising this strategy is reporting thei...

2021 in Review, Part 2: 5 Top Cybersecurity Stories

Ransomware may have dominated headlines in 2021, but it’s only one of many threats security teams must protect against. We’re taking a look back at 5 top cybersecurity stories of 2021 that practitioners wanted to learn more about. 5. The State of Security in eCommerce Why you should learn more...

Infographic: How Do You Stop Bad Bots?

According to Imperva’s Bad Bot Report 2021, bad bot traffic has maintained its upwards trend, amounting to 25.6 percent of all traffic in 2020, an all-time high. Combined with good bot traffic, 40.8 percent of internet traffic in 2020 wasn’t human, as human traffic decreased by 5.7 percent to 59....

Bad Bot Traffic on Healthcare Websites Rises 372% As Vaccines Become Available Globally

Nations around the world are racing to acquire COVID-19 vaccines and assemble digital infrastructure and web applications to enable appointment booking. As they do this, Imperva Research Labs has monitored a staggering 372% increase in bad bot traffic on healthcare websites globally since Septemb...

Bad Bot Report 2020: Bad Bots Strike Back

The 7th Annual Bad Bot Report is now available from Imperva. Prepared by data from Imperva’s Threat Research Lab, it provides a comprehensive look at the bad bot landscape and the impact of this malicious traffic across multiple industries. Bad bot traffic rose to 24.1%, it’s highest proportion...

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”...