Improve the ROI of Your Database Protection Investment

When an organization considers switching a mission-critical compliance or security system from one vendor’s solution to another it’s a very big decision. There is expense involved in acquiring the new solution, it will take time and money to deploy and retrain staff, and it will take careful...

Women in Tech and Career Spotlight: Jerusalem Bicha

We conclude our series featuring women in tech at Imperva with an interview with Jerusalem Bicha, network operations team lead at Imperva. We talked about her path to a career in cybersecurity. Tell us how you got into cybersecurity. JB: I actually don’t have a degree. My career in cybersecurity...

Women in Tech and Career Spotlight: Inna Shalom

The latest in our series featuring women in tech at Imperva is my interview with Inna Shalom, the data insight team lead at Imperva. She spoke about her professional journey and experience working in the cybersecurity industry. Tell us how you got into cybersecurity. IS: I spent the first six yea...

Women in Tech and Career Spotlight: Shiri Margel

This month we’ll be closing out our series featuring women in tech at Imperva. While I work closely with many of the women we’ve spotlighted, I’ve found learning more about their backgrounds so interesting—I hope you have too! Continuing in the series, I spoke with Shiri Margel, team lead in the...

The Forrester Wave Ranks Imperva as a Leader for DDoS Mitigation Providers

Imperva has tracked the DDoS threat for some time now. Back in 2014 we saw the rise of DDoS botnets. In 2015, we revealed one of the first IoT-based DDoS attacks. Last year, we predicted and then documented one of the largest botnet-based DDoS attacks. DDoS mitigation, as it turns out, is the...

Q3 2017 Global DDoS Threat Landscape Report

Today we are releasing our latest Global DDoS Threat Landscape Report, a statistical analysis of 5,765 network and application layer DDoS attacks mitigated by Imperva Incapsula services during Q3 2017. Before diving into the report’s highlights, it should be mentioned that this quarter was marked...

Database Security at Cloud Scale

The biggest challenge to data security is the sheer volume and pace of data growth. More so even than the shift from relational data to unstructured or the migration of data to the cloud. “Cloud scale” is usually used to refer to technical items like data center size and operations or networks an...

Good Bots In. Bad Bots Out.

More than half of Internet traffic today comes from bots. These non-human visitors crawl the web constantly, their numbers are increasing, and they are getting smarter and more human-like by the minute. Imperva has been tracking these trends for more than five years, in an ongoing statistical stu...

Women in Tech and Career Spotlight: Michal Pal

We continue our articles focusing on the themes of National Cyber Security Awareness Month with the first of a series of articles spotlighting some of the women who work at Imperva. I spoke to Michal Pal, automation group manager for the Imperva Incapsula product line and got to know about what...

Detecting Data Breaches: Why Understanding Database Types Matters

Different data characteristics and access patterns found in different database systems lead to different ways of detecting suspicious data access, which are indicators of potential data breaches. To accurately detect data access abuse we need to classify the database processing type. Is it a...

Protecting Xero’s Cloud-Based Accounting Platform from Cyber Attacks

Meeting with customers is always insightful, and recently I got a chance to sit down with Aaron McKeown, head of security engineering and architecture at Xero, to talk about how they use Imperva SecureSphere for their cloud-hosted applications. Founded in 2006, Xero provides cloud accounting...

How to Deploy SecureSphere WAF on Azure

If you host apps in the cloud, then you need security in the cloud. The Imperva SecureSphere Web Application Firewall WAF identifies and acts upon dangers maliciously woven into innocent-looking website traffic, both on-premises and in the cloud, such as: Blocking technical attacks such as SQL...

CVE-2017-9805: Analysis of Apache Struts RCE Vulnerability in REST Plugin

Just two months ago we published an analysis of a critical remote code execution RCE security vulnerability in Apache Struts. Now Apache Struts has published a new version fixing yet another critical RCE vulnerability September 5, 2017. CVE-2017-9805 is a vulnerability in Apache Struts related to...

Incapsula Updated Review — New Security Options, Improved Delivery and Reliability

It's been close to five years since we last looked at Incapsula, a security-focused CDN service known for its DDoS mitigation and web application security features. As one would expect, during these five years the company has expanded and improved, introducing lots of new features and even severa...

How to Protect AWS API Gateway with SecureSphere WAF

Serverless architectures are becoming more and more popular, and Amazon’s API Gateway service is a key factor in many serverless deployments on AWS. Currently API Gateway only supports a public CloudFront endpoint, and securing the API Gateway with high-end WAF protection may seem like a difficul...

A Leader for Four Consecutive Years in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for WAFs

Gartner has published their 2017 Magic Quadrant for Web Application Firewalls WAF and Imperva has again been named a WAF leader—now for four consecutive years. Attacks remain same, but infrastructure is changing According to 2017 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, web app attacks remain t...

Conversations on Securing Microservices, API Gateways and Containers

Last month, I met James name changed while at AWS Summit in London. As I was managing Imperva's booth, he walked over to me with a query about what we do. A conversation ensued and James described his company for me. They were into financial-legal intermediation between underwriters, insurance...

CVE-2017-9791: Analysis of RCE in the Struts Showcase App in Struts 1 Plugin

On July 7th, a new security vulnerability was published in Apache Struts 2 CVE-2017-9791 S2-0481. Struts 2.3.x users with Struts 1 plugin, which includes the Showcase app, are vulnerable. Once again, this vulnerability enables a Remote Code Execution RCE, which is the most commonly exploited Apac...

Data Anonymization: Motivation and Mechanics

Data is one of the most valuable assets a company has in its possession. And while it may not be listed as a line item on the balance sheet, when a company’s data is breached it can have a very negative impact on the bottom line—in a company’s stock price, reputation and brand. One approach to...

GDPR Readiness – Calculate Your Return on Security Investment (ROSI)

What is the cost of a data breach? Assuming annual revenue of £30M, a single fine could be as much as a whopping £1.2M—the maximum 4%—when the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation GDPR becomes effective in May 2018. Compare that to a database control cost factor of £750K, the cost ...