Key Findings from the 2020 Cyberthreat Defense Report

The new 2020 Cyberthreat Defense Report CDR released this week. Now in its seventh year, the annual report provides a look at how global cybersecurity professionals perceive threats and plan to defend against them. The CDR enables cybersecurity professionals to benchmark their company’s security...

Imperva Wants to Hear From YOU!

Imperva is pleased to announce UserVoice, a new product feedback system that allows YOU to shape the future of Imperva product lines. UserVoice empowers Imperva users to share feedback and ideas in one comprehensive, crowd-sourced place where they can also see and react to the ideas others submit...

Remote File Inclusion (RFI) – Detecting the Undetectable

Intro Remote File Inclusion RFI is an attack exploiting the functionality in web applications which allows the inclusion of external source code without validating its content or origin. An RFI payload is a link that points to a malicious file that an application will include in its code example:...

Imperva Launches the Cyber Threat Index

Today, we are proud to announce the launch of the Cyber Threat Index, a new online information portal from the minds of our threat researchers at Imperva Research Labs. The current Cyber Threat Index is 776. This is categorized as High and is up 8 percent since December. But what is the Cyber...

The Resurrection of PHPUnit RCE Vulnerability

Once a software patch is released, we tend to believe it means “problem solved”. Most of the time, however, this is not actually the case. Fully solving the problem requires all developers to grab the latest patch version and deploy it in their environment. Since upgrading isn’t an especially...

How we productized our staging environment and survived to tell the tale

Managing the Imperva SaaS infrastructure is like herding cats. There are so many moving parts, new developments, testing, fixing bugs, patching, reducing our SLAs, fighting the bad guys and, most importantly, pushing our latest and greatest to production every week. And it all runs like clockwork...

When your WAF needs its own WAF

Security products have their own security issues, which can affect products that they were designed to secure. It's not a recursive loop, but the reality. WAFs there are not an exclusion. You can remember CloudFlare self-DoS that happened last year...

2019 Global DDoS Threat Landscape Report

Today Imperva Research Labs, made up of senior researchers and industry experts who have been delivering sound and valid advice for over 15 years, is releasing a brand new Global DDoS Threat Landscape Report. The report is a statistical analysis of 3,643 network layer DDoS attacks throughout 2019...

Imperva Received Top Scores in Gartner’s “Critical Capabilities for Cloud Web Application Firewalls”

The web application landscape is constantly changing, and the tools needed for the best application security protection need to change with the landscape. With Imperva’s recent improvements in API Security, Bot Management, DDoS and Cloud WAF, it’s easy to see why we are among the highest-scored...

Automating API Security in the Cloud

These days, the most common way for services to communicate and transfer data is by using APIs. However, broken, exposed, or hacked APIs are the cause of some of the latest major data breaches, as they have the potential to expose sensitive data for public consumption. Securing your APIs is...

Imperva Mitigates Exploits of Citrix Vulnerability – Right Out of the Box

On December 17, Citrix issued a Security Bulletin on an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability CVE-2019-19781 affecting its Citrix Application Delivery Controller ADC - formerly known as NetScaler ADC - and its Citrix Gateway - formerly known as NetScaler Gateway. At the time of the...

Working for a Winning Company

My interest in Imperva was indirectly created two years ago through an introduction to the Thoma Bravo TB team. After meeting a number of the key players at TB, I made a mental note that given the opportunity, this was a group I would love to work for someday. Two years later that opportunity...

Why I joined Imperva

I’ve been in the cybersecurity industry for a couple of decades now, and the tech industry even longer. If there’s one thing I’ve learned across all my roles, it’s the value of focusing on customer experience. It sounds intuitive, right? I’m sure many of you are nodding your heads or giving me th...

CVE-2011-5266

Imperva SecureSphere Web Application Firewall WAF before 12-august-2010 allows SQL injection filter bypass...

Sql injection

Imperva SecureSphere Web Application Firewall WAF before 12-august-2010 allows SQL injection filter bypass...

CVE-2011-5266

CVE-2011-5266 affects Imperva SecureSphere Web Application Firewall (WAF). The vulnerability allows bypass of SQL injection filters in versions prior to 12 August 2010. The CVSS metrics indicate high impact across confidentiality, integrity, and availability (NVD CVSS 2.0: base score 7.5; CVSS 3....

CVE-2011-5266

Imperva SecureSphere Web Application Firewall WAF before 12-august-2010 allows SQL injection filter bypass...

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”...

Thrilled to Join Imperva

Today marks my first day at Imperva and I could not be more thrilled to join the outstanding team behind the impressive products that keep our customers safe every day. I’ve been asked to share why I joined Imperva, and candidly there are a number of reasons: First, timing: I think that security ...

Cloud Template Tool – The only way for Imperva On-Premises deployment on AWS

For the last six years, Imperva’s customers have been able to deploy our On-Premises product on AWS and enjoy the many advantages of cloud deployment including flexibility, cost-effectiveness, scalability, accessibility and many others. But using Imperva On-Premises on AWS wasn’t always easy, and...