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Is Web Scraping Illegal? Depends on Who You Ask
Web scraping has existed for a long time, and depending on who you ask, it can be loved or hated. But where is the line drawn between extracting data for legitimate business purposes and malicious data extraction that hurts business? The bar is getting blurrier by the day, and the introduction of...
GraphQL Vulnerabilities and Common Attacks: What You Need to Know
GraphQL is a powerful query language for APIs that has gained popularity in recent years for its flexibility and ability to provide a great developer experience. However, with the rise of GraphQL usage comes the potential for security vulnerabilities and attacks. In this blog post, we will descri...
How the Modern Data Landscape Made the Traditional Cybersecurity Approach Obsolete
From the news headlines, we know that data breaches are on the rise - both in frequency and scale. While this reality is unsettling, it’s not surprising. That is because the volume of data being collected and stored by organizations continues to grow exponentially each year. Every day, the global...
Why a Resilient Content Delivery Network (CDN) is Key to Website Performance
Today’s online users have built-up certain standards of quality when visiting a website. They expect a high performance website with fast page load times and easily accessible, fresh and dynamic content. They also expect to enjoy a seamless and secure experience without downtime or limitations to...
In the Fight Against DDoS Attacks, not all PoPs are Created Equal
A distributed denial of service DDoS attack is a malicious attempt to make an online service unavailable to users, usually by temporarily interrupting or suspending the services of its hosting server. A DDoS attack is launched from numerous compromised devices, often distributed globally in what ...
How to Find Extra Cybersecurity Budget
Risk is up and budgets are down Organizational cybersecurity is a business issue, one could even say a finance issue, not just an IT issue. Gone are the days when cybersecurity was a luxury investment. Worldwide attacks are growing daily in frequency and complexity, regardless of the business siz...
2020 Ends With A Bang
December 2020 was an eventful month in cyber security. This blog recaps three of the major security events we saw towards the end of last year. December began with FireEye’s breach announcement that included a leak of its red team tools arsenal. Quickly after this announcement, Imperva Threat...
Botnet-led DDoS Attacks Are Hitting Record Intensities. Imperva is Mitigating All of Them.
DDoS attacks are usually ranked by the amount of bandwidth involved, such as the 2018 GitHub attack that peaked at 1.35 Terabits per second and is often cited as the largest DDoS attack ever. From Imperva’s long history of successfully mitigating DDoS attacks, we know that the TRUE measure of...
New 10 Second SLA For Rapid DDoS Mitigation
Two months ago, we updated the Imperva Incapsula SLA service level agreement to guarantee network and application layer DDoS attack mitigation in under 10 seconds. This commitment sets a new standard for time to mitigation TTM, made possible by improvements to our DDoS mitigation technology and...
Imperva Customers Protected Against CVE-2026-45247 in Mirasvit Full Page Cache Warmer for Magento
TL;DR: CVE-2026-45247 is a critical unauthenticated remote code execution RCE vulnerability affecting Mirasvit Full Page Cache Warmer for Magento 2. The flaw stems from unsafe PHP deserialization of attacker-controlled data supplied through the CacheWarmer cookie. Successful exploitation can allo...
Analysis: A Ransomware Attack on a PostgreSQL Database
In 2017, we reported on a database ransomware campaign targeting MySQL and MongoDB. Since then, we’ve observed similar attack tactics on a PostgreSQL database in Imperva Threat Research lab. In general, the attack flow contained: A brute force attack on the database for known users and weak...
Adobe ColdFusion vulnerabilities mitigated by Imperva
Several vulnerabilities in Adobe ColdFusion have been discovered recently, tracked as CVE-2023-29300, CVE-2023-38205, and CVE-2023-29298. These vulnerabilities, which can be exploited to allow arbitrary code execution and bypass access controls, affect several ColdFusion versions since 2016...
Gain Control of Rapidly Securing Your Critical APIs Without Worrying About Your Backend Stack
Imagine trying to protect your web application farm, while needing to integrate with all the different web servers backend stacks on a one-to-one basis. This requires a WAF that understands systems such as Nginx, Apache, IIS, and Tomcat. You will effectively start a project that will never end du...
Four Big Reasons to Update Your Software
ABP To shamelessly paraphrase the 1992 crime drama Glengarry Glen Ross, “Always be patching.” Any home computer needs to be updated regularly. Drives and software updates are critical to the smooth running of the average home PC, and can often be overlooked. Business and professional computers ar...
Why a “Lift-and-shift” Cloud Migration Strategy Doesn’t Support Data Security
The classic 1982 Steven Spielberg horror film “Poltergeist” chronicles disturbing, unexplained paranormal activity happening in a suburban family’s idyllic home. As the activity becomes more sinister and terrifying, the family learns that their neighborhood was built on an old burial ground. It...
How to Empower Employees to be Secure and Productive
How can CISOs make cybersecurity positive, productive, inclusive, and maintain best practices across the enterprise? -- Do your staff feel valued and important in their roles? More than 65 percent of employees report they do not feel recognized at work, and 31 percent say theyre "engaged but feel...
Infographic: How Are Bad Bots Hurting Your Business?
Bad bots are software applications which run automated tasks with malicious intent over the internet. They scrape data from sites without permission in order to reuse it and gain a competitive edge e.g. pricing, inventory levels, proprietary content, etc.. They are used for scalping, the act of...
Top Four Reasons for Data Loss from Databases (and what to do about it)
The need for data loss prevention DLP is well understood by IT security practitioners. As organizations embrace cloud-based managed database services such as Amazon RDS and Amazon Redshift, these risks don’t go away, and in many ways become more serious. Although AWS takes the security of their...
The Pitfalls of DIY Security for Your AWS RDS Databases
AWS RDS enables easy DIY database provisioning The trend toward using Database as a Service DBaaS is unmistakable. Organizations are leveraging DBaaS flexibility to bring new products and services to market faster, or to save time and money by reducing the cost and complexity of their database...
Opportunities and Threats – IoT and the Rise of 5G
The Internet of Things IoT is expanding rapidly. The number of connected devices in homes, businesses, and vehicles across the world is expected to increase from around 8 billion today to over 24 billion within the next decade, with much of this growth enabled by the introduction of 5G. This...
The Anatomy of Massive Application Layer DDoS Attacks
During 2020 between June 18 and June 24 Imperva mitigated massive 200K RPS Request Per Second attacks on a daily basis. Here at Imperva we investigate major attacks we mitigated in order to gain a better understanding of their anatomy and allow for smarter mitigation. In this blog post we’ll...
More Insights on The Global DDoS Threat Landscape
Recently, edge services product manager David Elmaleh and Imperva Research Labs’ data scientist Johnathan Azaria shared their DDoS knowledge in a live BrightTalk webinar about the current threat landscape and what you need to do to ensure you are adequately prepared. David and Johnathan not only...
Zero to Account Takeover: How I ‘Impersonated’ Someone Else Using Auth0
Since the publication of this blog, attempts have been made to discredit our findings, methodology and accuracy. Imperva stands by our research. Our findings were reported to Auth0 as part of their own bug bounty program, following their official process. Auth0 was kept informed of our findings a...
DevOps-Ready WAF: Scaling Security for a More Agile Environment
With the maturation of DevOps, the growing concern around the security and compliance of more agile application development systems has made 2018 the year for DevSecOps. According to a study by Gartner, over 80% of development teams will have embedded DevSecOps by 2021. When evaluating how a WAF...
Behind the Booking: How Bots Are Undermining Airline Revenue
The airline industry is under constant attack from malicious bots. Bad actors use automation to scrape fares, hoard inventory, commit fraud, and compromise customer accounts. While every airline faces its own unique challenges, the business impacts are remarkably consistent—lost revenue, inflated...
The Haunted House of IoT: When Everyday Devices Turn Against You
In todays interconnected world, the Internet of Things IoT promises convenience and innovation. From smart fridges that tell you when youre out of milk to connected light bulbs that adjust to your mood, the future seems to be right at our fingertips. What happens when these devices, designed to...
With Imperva’s DRA and ServiceNow, you can avoid burning out your cyber security employees
In todays world, CIOs and CISOs are facing a tough reality when it comes to the security staff shortage situation. With the deflating economy, nationalism, cybercrime, and nation-led adversaries, the demand for security personnel has increased, making it challenging for organizations to find and...
Making Diversity and Inclusion a Business Imperative at Imperva
To create meaningful change, you need to be the difference you wish to see in the world. At Imperva, we’re taking meaningful action and investing to create a workplace that brings together all voices, experiences and identities. We recognize that true innovation requires diversity of thought,...
Fast, Effective N-grams Extraction and Analysis with SQL
Features extraction is expensive, especially when dealing with big data. That’s why it’s great when you have the ability to preprocess close to the database - the data stays in the DB and doesn’t have to move out, unless necessary. One common approach for text data representation is N-grams...
Virtual Hackathon Generates Next Generation of Imperva Innovation
“How do we run a global hackathon amid a global pandemic?” That was my first thought when I began planning the 2020 Imperva Hackathon earlier this year. While the event is designed to foster innovation and uncover new ideas, in a global company like ours it’s also about making new friends and...
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...
Businesses Will Buy Down Risk With Defense-in-Depth – 2020 Trend #5
As 2019 came to an end, Imperva CTO Kunal Anand began working with our global research team, Imperva Labs, to put together a list of the most important cybersecurity issues security leaders should be prepared for in 2020. He published his list in the blog, “Top 5 Cybersecurity Trends to Prepare f...
Imperva to Acquire DevOps Security Leader Prevoty
Today, we announced that we entered into an agreement to acquire Prevoty, an innovator and leader in building application security that can block attacks and monitor interactions inside application stacks using DevOps and agile development. I’m incredibly excited that the Prevoty team will join...
Botnets, Breaches, and the End of Defense in Depth: Our 2017 Cybersecurity Predictions in Review
As 2016 closed out, Imperva once again peered into its crystal ball. As usual, there was much to foretell regarding the ever-changing cybersecurity realm in 2017. We’ll be doing the same soon as we look ahead into 2018. But before we do, we like to assess how accurate we were against the...
Imperva Protects Against the Apache Camel Vulnerabilities
Introduction: Understanding the Apache Camel Flaw On March 9, 2025, Apache released a security advisory for CVE-2025-27636, a vulnerability in the Apache Camel framework that allows attackers to bypass header filtering via miscased headers. Although rated as moderate, this vulnerability...
Imperva Client-Side Protection Mitigates the Polyfill Supply Chain Attack
The recent discovery of a website supply chain attack using the cdn.polyfill.io domain has left many websites vulnerable to malicious code injection. Once a trusted resource for adding JavaScript polyfills to websites, the domain has recently become the epicenter of a significant website supply...
Improving Cybersecurity: Different Certifications Explained
In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, the choice of cryptographic algorithms and certificates plays a pivotal role in ensuring the confidentiality and integrity of sensitive information. While traditional methods such as the RSA public-key cryptosystem have been the cornerstone of secu...
Online Retailers: Five Threats Targeting Your Business This Holiday Shopping Season
As the holiday season approaches, a palpable sense of joy and anticipation fills the air. Twinkling lights adorn homes, the aroma of freshly baked cookies wafts through the kitchen, and the sound of laughter and carolers melodies resonate on frosty evenings. Its a time when families come together...
Anonymous Sudan, MOVEit, and Cl0p
There are three concurrent events of significant concern: 1. An Anonymous Sudan group chat on Telegram has revealed imminent threats from Russia to the US financial system, specifically targeting the SWIFT network. The motive behind this attack is disruption. By attacking SWIFT and inducing...
Six Ways to Have Your eCommerce Site Ready for High-Traffic eShopping Days
The spikes are coming September is nearly over, and Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Halloween, Super Saturday, and the festive season will soon be upon us. With the holidays comes increased sales opportunities, driven by increased traffic. When you’re ready for the spikes, you...
Multiple Imperva Products Earn 2022 Fortress Cyber Security Awards
In June, the Business Intelligence Group announced that three Imperva products have earned the 2022 Fortress Cyber Security Awards. The mission of this prestigious award program is to identify and reward leading companies and products globally that are successfully keeping data and electronic...
How to Monitor Athena Usage to Understand Your Operations, and Control Security and Costs
Introduction to our data lakes experience Data lakes are great. They are flexible as they allow many object formats and multiple query engines. They are also cost effective - there is no need to manage or pay for resources like disks, cpu and memory. Data is simply stored in an object store and i...
Imperva® Offers Free Serverless Protection for AWS Lambda
Just as other instant computing infrastructures have done in the past, Function-as-a-Service FaaS now enables DevOps teams to deploy applications more efficiently at a fraction of the cost. AWS Lambda, Amazon Web Services’ AWS serverless approach to infrastructure, enables companies to go-to-mark...
Imperva Takes on its Largest Recorded Account Takeover Attack on a Single Company
Imperva recently detected and mitigated the largest - and most concentrated - series of brute force ATO account takeover attacks in its history. Over the course of 60 hours from midnight on October 28, our ATO team’s monitoring systems detected more than 44 million ATO attempts on the login page ...
When Bandwidth Doesn’t Last
Introduction Imperva’s Cloud WAF networking team went through a major transition from an operation team to a development team during the SDN era. We saw new products emerging for our network infrastructure - moving from manual operation to automatic. But, while the change of mindset from being an...
The Zero Trust Approach to Data Security – 2020 Trend #2
As 2019 comes to an end, our security experts are looking ahead to the new year to predict cybersecurity trends that will shape the landscape in 2020. Imperva CTO Kunal Anand blogged about his “Top 5 Cybersecurity Trends to Prepare for in 2020,” last week. This week, we’re digging deeper into his...
Cloud Migration Checklist for Application and Data Security
In the final post of our series on cloud migration, we’ve put together a list of strategic and immediate considerations as you plan to migrate your business to the cloud. From a high-altitude viewpoint, cloud security is based on a model of “shared responsibility” in which the concern for securit...
Three Reasons Why GDPR Encourages Pseudonymization
The General Data Protection Regulation GDPR is the European Union’s new data regulation designed to provide individuals with rights and protections over their personal data that is collected or created by businesses or government entities. It unifies data protection regulation across all member...
Bo Knows Security – Whiteboard Wednesday [Video]
October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month NCSAM and to address this week's theme of "Cybersecurity in the Workplace is Everyone’s Business" our Whiteboard Wednesday this month features Bo Kim, head of information security at Imperva. When it comes to building a security program, focusing...
Professional Services for GDPR Compliance
The GDPR effective date is less than seven months away and the stakes are high. GDPR non-compliance penalties have the potential to be quite significant up to 79 times higher than existing guidelines, and GDPR applies to any organization of any size that collects or processes personal data...