Imperva mitigated its largest attack as a provider of DDoS protection

In July, Imperva mitigated its largest attack as a provider of DDoS protection, and one of the largest DDoS attacks so far in 2021. The attack lasted for 40 minutes and generated a massive throughput of 1.02 terabytes per second Tbps and 155 million packets per second Mpps. Imperva also mitigated...

A Few Hours After the Publication: Dozens of Scanning Attempts for Vulnerable PHP Servers

On March 28th the official PHP Git repository was compromised in order to open a backdoor into many web servers. The attackers were able to gain access to the PHP official main Git server, uploading two malicious commits, including a backdoor. The malicious commits were discovered a few hours...

Putting Your Data Security at the Center of our Mission

We’re more than just an industry-leading Web Application Firewall! For a long time now, Imperva has been known in the cyber security industry as ‘the WAF company’. The go-to brand for Application Security and Web Application Firewalls. But this is only possible due to our data protection DNA. Thi...

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...

Three Ways to Use Data Classification Scan Results

In July we launched Classifier, a free data classification tool that allows you to quickly and easily uncover sensitive data in your databases. Since its launch, the tool has been widely used around the globe, which comes as no surprise given the heightened focus on data protection. Furthermore,...

Challenges of Insider Threat Detection – Whiteboard Wednesday [Video]

Insider threat detection and containment of insider threats requires an expert understanding of both users and how they use and access enterprise data. In our first Whiteboard Wednesday, Drew Schuil, Vice President of Global Product Strategy at Imperva, talks about the challenges of insider threa...

Move Securely to the Cloud: WAF Requirements and Deployment Options

Moving to the cloud has become an overwhelmingly popular trend even among organizations that were at first reluctant to make the move. Wherever you are in your cloud migration plan, it can take time, sometimes years, and often starts with first moving peripheral workloads to the cloud while leavi...

7 Steps to Protect Your Data From Insider Threats

Like it or not, your greatest risk is already on the payroll. When internal users with trusted access to data are careless, become compromised or have malicious intent, enterprise data is exposed. Just ask the CIA. Detecting insider threats, however, is challenging for organizations due to the...

PCI DSS 4.0.1: New Clarifications on Client-Side Security – What You Need to Know

As a leading provider of web application and API security solutions, Imperva is committed to helping merchants, payment processors, and anyone seeking to comply with the latest PCI DSS requirements. We previously discussed the changes introduced in PCI DSS 4.0. This blog will cover the...

Taking Time to Understand NIS2 Reporting Requirements

The newest version of the European Union Network and Information Systems directive, or NIS2, came into force in January 2023. Member States have until October 2024 to transpose it into their national law. One of the most critical changes with NIS2 is the schedule for reporting a cybersecurity...

The Worrying Rise of Cybercrime as a Service (CaaS)

What is CaaS? Put simply, Cybercrime as a Service CaaS means black hat hackers for hire. Now, any ex-employee with a grudge, any disgruntled customer, any troubled ex-partner, or vindictive competitor, literally anyone with the right browser, can hire a dark web bad actor to perform...

Massive Multi-Vector 1.37 Tbps DDoS Attack Mitigated by Imperva DDoS Protection

On July 22, an Imperva customer was targeted by a network DDoS attack that reached a maximum bandwidth of 1.37 trillion bits per second Tbps, making it one of the largest attacks that Imperva has stopped and one of the larger DDoS attacks on record. The attack lasted a little over two hours in...

Forrester Report Reveals the 5 Benefits IT Teams Really Need from API Security Tools

An Application Programming Interface API is a software intermediary that allows applications to communicate with one another. APIs provide routines, protocols, and tools for developers to facilitate and accelerate the creation of software applications. They enable applications to easily access an...

Six paths to a job in cybersecurity

Like many high-tech businesses, the cybersecurity industry is facing a widening skills gap. One of the main reasons why many companies do not have effective data security practices is the lack of actual skilled cybersecurity practitioners. In a November 2019 report, the International Information...

5 high-profile DDoS attacks that should chill you to the bone

Distributed denial of service DDoS attacks are malicious attempts to make an online service unavailable to users, usually by temporarily interrupting or suspending the services of its hosting server. Data revealed in the 2021 DDoS Threat Landscape Report strongly suggests attacks are constantly...

6 ways cybersecurity teams can save time and money

The phrase “time is money”, originally attributed to Benjamin Franklin, reprimands the slothful for wasting their working hours. As one of the founding fathers of the United States, Benjamin Franklin clearly never worked a day in cybersecurity. This is an area where fresh blood is hard to find to...

Do CAPTCHAs work and what’s the alternative?

We know youre busy, so the answer is “No”. Users want less friction, and a good bot detection and mitigation solution will do the job MUCH better. The first lesson on the first day of UI school is that users want the path of least resistance. While the gamification of cybersecurity does have a...

Gartner report recommends a smart approach to enterprises needing to incorporate data privacy capabilities to manage evolving regulatory guidelines

In a recent Gartner report The State of Privacy and Personal Data Protection, 2020-2022, the authors assume that “through 2022, privacy-driven spending on compliance tooling will increase to more than US$8 billion worldwide. By 2023, 65 percent of the world’s population will have its personal...

From the Data Scientist’s Desk: How to Tune a Model Using Simple Analytics on the Feature Contribution Data

My story: My model looked good. It was as accurate as I wanted it to be and I was happy with it from one experiment to another. When I decided to change the test data set a bit, everything fell apart. Accuracy dropped and I had no clue why. I had to run the test again. And again. Ten tests later,...

How a DDoS Attack on an Internet Service Provider Can Paralyze Critical Infrastructure

The motivation behind Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attacks is often unknown. In some cases it might be cyber-vandalism, causing disruption for disruption’s sake. In other cases it might be down to hactivism, reaction to a cause or an event. And while DDoS attacks on business enterprises can...

Fortnite Scammers Approaching $1m in Annual Takings

When something seems too good to be true, it probably is. It’s a hard lesson to learn and, in this case, one that’s being taught by scammers. The perpetrators are abusing the fact that online players of Battle Royale games may be very eager to get free in-game currency and items, and are willing ...

My Journey To CTO for Imperva App Sec

I’m delighted to be announcing that I’ve joined Imperva as the CTO for Application Security. Many of you readers know me as the Forrester analyst covering Zero Trust, SASE, and network security since before the pandemic. But what you might not have known is prior to that, I was in application...

13 Cybersecurity Horror Stories to Give you Sleepless Nights

Are we sitting comfortably? Twas a dark and stormy night, and the cybersecurity team stood patiently in their Scrum meeting. “Tell us a tale,” the CISO said, and one of their number raised their hand. They caught the eye of their colleagues, and began… 1. An artists tale Curious reader, gird thy...

Attack Analytics Helps You Find the Monsters Under the Bed

Alert fatigue kills data breach detection efforts Is there anything more frightening than missing a cyber attack? For most organizations, the answer is no. However, for many security teams, it’s challenging to tune alerts properly to minimize false positives and still be alerted to potential...

The Five Principles of a Zero Trust Cybersecurity Model

When even the US Government concludes that to ensure baseline security practices are in place and to realize the security benefits of cloud-based infrastructure while mitigating associated risks, they must migrate to a zero trust model, every organization should be actively moving in that...

Top Challenges to Implementing Data Privacy: Nailing Down Discovery and Classification First is Key

Why Discover and Classify is so critical Ice hockey goal-scoring great Wayne Gretzky is reported to have said, “You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.” The data security version of this quip is “you protect zero percent of the data you can’t see” and the data privacy version is “if you...

The cost of data security – it’s not just about the numbers

Organizations striving to improve their security posture often find this a multi-faceted challenge. In addition to the security product evaluation itself, security budgets are tight and justification is a necessary step. Financial language, however, is not everyone’s forte - and fiscal presentati...

How bad bots are targeting the healthcare sector

Credential cracking, or password spraying, is one of the most effective ways for cybercriminals to get access to user accounts. It refers to the brute-force automated cracking, or pairing of usernames and passwords by using sophisticated high-speed bots. According to a National Cyber Awareness...

Will AI Change the Role of Cybersecurity?

Mention artificial intelligence AI and security and a lot of people think of Skynet from The Terminator movies. Sure enough, at a recent Bay Area Cyber Security Meetup group panel on AI and machine learning, it was moderator Alan Zeichick – technology analyst, journalist and speaker – who first...

Imperva Customers Protected Against “wp2shell” Pre-Authentication RCE in WordPress Core

TL;DR : A critical pre-authentication Remote Code Execution RCE vulnerability, dubbed "wp2shell" CVE-2026-63030, has been identified in WordPress Core. This vulnerability allows an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable WordPress installation without any preconditions,...

Best WAAP Solutions for Enterprise Application Security: How to Choose the Right Platform in 2026

Key Takeaways The major enterprise WAAP solutions evaluated in this guide are Akamai, Cloudflare, F5, Fastly, Fortinet, Imperva, and Radware. In the most recent independent benchmarks, Akamai, Cloudflare, and Imperva were named Leaders in the Forrester Wave: Web Application Firewall Solutions, Q1...

Seven Cybersecurity Tips to Protect Your Retail Business This Holiday Season

It’s no secret that the holiday season is the busiest time for online retailers, with sales starting as early as October and stretching until late December. According to the NRF, census data suggests that 2023 holiday sales experienced a 3.8% growth, reaching a record $964.4 billion about $3,000...

Compromising Bank Customer Trust: The Price of Inadequate Data Protection

Banks hold not just money, but also emotions and aspirations. Countless stories unfold within bank walls, reflecting the intimate connection between money and emotion. Beyond the numbers and transactions, every dollar represents individuals’ hopes, dreams, and livelihoods. As the trusted custodia...

Overcoming Challenges in Delivering Machine Learning Models from Research to Production

So, you’ve finished your research. You developed a machine learning ML model, tested, and validated it and you’re now ready to start development, and then push the model to production. The hard work -- the research -- is finally behind you. Or is it? Understanding the Challenges in Machine Learni...

2023 Predictions: API Security the new Battle Ground in Cybersecurity

The adoption of application programming interfaces, more commonly known as APIs, has increased dramatically in recent years. In many ways, APIs are now the backbone of the Internet. The reason? APIs are an essential component of digital transformation, enabling applications, containers, and...

What are Dating Apps Doing to Protect Their Users?

A very public affair When asked about the pitfalls and problems behind using dating apps, users cite data security as one of the most worrying elements of online dating. Since the Ashley Madison breach in July 2015, online dating sites have repeatedly been under media scrutiny for the poor...

Gone Ape? How to Protect NFTs from Theft

What are NFTs? Non-fungible tokens NFTs are unique and irreplaceable digital assets that, by their nature, have an intrinsic value. These could be digital art, photography, GIFs, avatars, memes, 3D objects, domain names, trading cards, virtual land, music, or other digitally tradable tokens. Each...

Imperva is named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Bot Management, Q2 2022

We are thrilled to announce that Imperva has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Bot Management, Q2 2022 report – a trusted source for technology buyers that helps security and risk professionals select the right vendor for their needs in a technology marketplace. The report offers a...

Shorter, sharper DDoS attacks are on the rise – and attackers are sidestepping traditional mitigation approaches

Imagine that your network is under attack. A couple of minutes ago, you detected a large burst of traffic, out of nowhere. Now it’s in excess of 60 Gbps, and overwhelming your network. Your mitigation service hasn’t picked up the attack yet, and you’re just about to take a closer look when it sto...

The pitfalls of relying only on your ISP for DDoS protection

Relying on your Internet Service Provider ISP for DDoS protection is like going to a restaurant known for the freshest, tastiest seafood and ordering beef. Sure, they have it on the menu and they are happy to sell it to you, but the experience is not likely to compare well to what you’d have in a...

Web Scraping: The Fine Line Between Business Intelligence and Data Privacy Violation. Is it Legal?

Web Scraping is the use of automated software also known as bots to extract content and data from a website. It is also classified by the OWASP as an automated threat OAT-011. Web Scraping differs from Screen Scraping in that it can extract underlying HTML code and data that is stored in database...

Connect, Share, and Learn at Imperva Amplify 2021

On the heels of high-profile breaches, attacks e.g., Sunburst, Raindrop and COVID-19, rapid digital transformation places even more pressure on security. We’re seizing the opportunity to launch our first virtual user conference -- Imperva Amplify -- to share our knowledge so together, we can bett...

Prepare for more sophisticated security threats in 2021

As computing becomes more distributed to achieve greater optimization and efficiency, the threats posed by cyberattackers are destined to become increasingly more sophisticated. Here are some steps organizations should take in 2021 to mitigate such sophisticated security threats. Start with...

Imperva mitigates largest DDoS attacks of 2020… so far…

The word “unprecedented” has never been used so much as it has during 2020. And in the latest of many unprecedented events, July saw the two largest recorded DDoS attacks of the year so far. As revealed in our July 2020 Cyber Threat Index Report, published today, Imperva Research Labs recorded tw...

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...

Stronger Together, Red Hat 3scale Integration

Most enterprises today rely on customers accessing their applications to conduct daily business. These enterprises know by now that application programming interfaces APIs are becoming more common than ever before to enable communication between applications and end users. Even though they are...

72 Hours: Understanding the GDPR Data Breach Reporting Timeline

We're down to the wire with respect to the General Data Protection Regulation GDPR compliance deadline of May 25, 2018. Organizations that fail to comply could face fines of up to €20M roughly $22M or 4 percent of their annual global turnover from the prior year and we’ll soon see just how EU...

Closing the Sovereignty Gap: Bringing Active API Protection to Self-Managed Environments

How Thales is bringing active API protection to self-managed environments, without compromising digital sovereignty. APIs Changed Faster Than Security Architectures Organizations have invested heavily in discovering APIs, classifying sensitive data, and understanding API risk. That's progress. Bu...

How to Eliminate Deployment Bottlenecks Without Sacrificing Application Security

Today, organizations increasingly rely on DevOps to accelerate software delivery, improve operational efficiency, and enhance business performance. According to RedGate, 74% have adopted DevOps, and according to Harvard Business Review Analytics, 77% of organizations currently depend on DevOps to...

The Rising Cost of Vulnerable APIs and Bot Attacks – A $186 Billion Wake-Up Call for Businesses

How much do bot attacks and API insecurity cost organizations? To answer these questions, Imperva engaged the Marsh McLennan Cyber Risk Intelligence Center to analyze incident data related to vulnerable APIs and bot attacks. Imperva’s latest report, “The Economic Impact of API and Bot Attacks,"...