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...

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

CVE-2011-5266

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....

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...

2019 Hackathon Challenges Imperva to Solve Problems Together

The smell of pizza –150 boxes to be exact – filled our global offices last week as more than 220 Impervians technical and non-technical rolled up their sleeves to participate in Imperva’s annual company-wide hackathon. As chair of the event this year, I was determined to host a hackathon that...

Top 5 Cybersecurity Trends to Prepare for in 2020

I don’t need a crystal ball to predict that in 2020 cybersecurity attacks will accelerate and the tactics will evolve. We’ll continue to be hounded by greater volumes of the attacks that have threatened us for years and, as businesses adopt new innovations, new vulnerabilities to threats will...

How to Protect Holiday Shoppers from Bots and Scammers

It’s the most wonderful time of year for gift card scammers. With Black Friday, Cyber Monday and the holidays just around the corner, consumers will spend billions on gift cards for hard-to-shop-for friends, family, and colleagues. Imperva VP Tiffany Olson Kleemann was interviewed on Good Morning...

Secure Your Digital Transformation

Digital transformation DX is on the mind, IT budget sheet, and board meeting agenda for the majority of enterprise-level organizations. The term digital transformation is becoming ubiquitous, but its definition can be ambiguous. Within the context of this blog, DX refers to how organizations...

Tracking CVE-2019-11043 PHP Vulnerability – An Uncommon Chain of Events

On October 22, security researcher Omar Ganiev published a tweet regarding remote code execution vulnerability in PHP-FPM the FastCGI Process Manager running on the Nginx server. The tweet includes a link to a GitHub repository with an explanation of the vulnerability and a PoC proof-of-concept f...

Mitigate then Investigate: Watch a Live DDoS Attack

Recently Andy Shoemaker, founder of NimbusDDOS, and our own David Elmaleh shared their knowledge about DDoS attacks and what it means to have industry-best protection capabilities including fast time to mitigation. They also offered insights into the critical investigation activities that must...

Imperva RASP Now Supports .NET Core Apps for Security by Default

We at Imperva are proud to announce that we now support the .NET Core development platform, securing apps written in .NET Core with our industry-leading RASP solution. Support for .NET Core expands our market-leading, full-stack application security solution to apps at the heart of digital...

WAF-Based Attacks & The Future of Security

Understand WAFs and cybersecurity. Recent WAF-based breaches with CapitalOne, Imperva, and Cloudflare offer essential lessons we can learn from where WAF technology is failing us and what can we do to improve our security. The post WAF-Based Attacks & The Future of Security appeared first on...

WAF-Based Attacks & The Future of Security

Understand WAFs and cybersecurity. Recent WAF-based breaches with CapitalOne, Imperva, and Cloudflare offer essential lessons we can learn from where WAF technology is failing us and what can we do to improve our security. The post WAF-Based Attacks & The Future of Security appeared first on...

This Week in Security News: Trend Micro Launches its XDR Center in India and EU Reports 5G Cybersecurity Risks

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about Trend Micro’s new XDR Center in India that will help solve data sovereignty issues. Also, read about 5G network software use bei...

Imperva: Data Breach Caused by Amazon Cloud Misconfiguration

Imperva, the security vendor, said this week that a misconfiguration of an Amazon Web Services AWS cloud instance allowed hackers to exfiltrate information on customers using its Cloud Web Application Firewall WAF product. Formerly known as Incapsula, the Cloud WAF analyzes requests coming into...

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...