How to Teach Colleagues About the Dangers of Phishing

Every day worldwide, tens of thousands of employees fall prey to phishing scams. In the second quarter of 2022, the Anti-Phishing Working Group APWG saw 1,097,811 total phishing attacks, the worst quarter on record. The results can be devastating: from lost data and identity theft to compromised...

Calculate Splunk Ingestion Costs Savings when Pre-Processing Data Repository Logs with Imperva DSF

If you use Splunk to ingest all your data for security analytics, you likely recognize it as one of the greatest indexing tools ever created. With Splunk, your security teams get a real-time view of machine data from the network, data center, or IT environments. Many enterprises also use Splunk t...

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...

The Three Key Competencies that Optimize Data Security Orchestration

One of the principal benefits of a modern data-centric security fabric is being able to automatically apply security controls to the data itself and drive policy-compliant data handling behavior by privileged users. But we all know that detecting a security incident is just the first part of the...

How Organizations Manage to Understand Millions of Unstructured Data Files at Scale

For an ever-growing segment of organizations, making sense of unstructured data is fast becoming imperative. It is also far more challenging. Unlike structured data that’s stored in rows and columns, text-based, and easy to search in relational databases and data warehouses, there is no defined...

Imperva Reaches New Heights as it Opens PoPs in Cape Town and Rio

Imperva is reaching new heights as we expand our global network of data centers with new points of presence PoPs in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Cape Town, South Africa. The two cities, often compared to each other for their many similarities including their breathtaking coastlines, white sandy...

Four Reasons why you Should Consider Contingency DDoS Protection

The experts agree that Imperva is solidly positioned as a leader in Distributed Denial of Service DDoS mitigation. Over our many years as leaders in this space, we have determined that no matter how reliable your current DDoS protection is, there is always a chance that your network infrastructur...

How to do Feature Selection Using Feature Contribution Data

Feature contribution is a method to give a weight to each feature that reflects its impact on the model’s prediction. Feature contribution can be calculated on an entire dataset or a single data point. In our previous blog post, we showed how to visualize feature contributions to make it easy to...

Fundamental Security Concepts and Best Practices Every Game Developer Should Know

Gaming is now the world’s favorite form of entertainment, with Newzoo reporting that by 2023 there will be more than three billion gamers across the planet. With the growth of multiplayer games, however, the number of cheaters has also increased. A study by The New York Times found that almost 50...

Five Steps to Prepare Data for a Zero-Trust Security Model

The outmoding of traditional network security Traditional network security was based on the concept of a guarded network perimeter, which is difficult to access from the outside but implicitly trusts everyone on the inside. The problem with this approach is that once an attacker has access to the...

Agents and Agentless: Better Together

In your effort to collect data access information from your data repositories in order to apply security controls, you don’t have to make the black and white choice to go with agents or an agentless approach. It is important, however, that the tool you choose is right for the job you are doing. I...

Imperva is on Top of the World as it Announces New PoP in Bogotá

Imperva is on top of the world to announce the opening of our newest and highest data center yet in Bogotá, Colombia. This latest move represents our commitment as an organization to improve performance, security and connectivity for our customers in the Colombian market. In the very center of th...

How Imperva Leverages AWS to Help Customers Prevent Attacks

At Imperva, we’re passionate about being a trusted security partner for our customers, so we continually invest in the availability, resiliency, and scalability of our global network. We’ve made significant investments over the past year to expand our cloud footprint, including rebuilding and...

Best practices in WAF gateways to meet the demands of digital transformation

Every day, digital transformation is changing every organization’s threat landscape. As a result, they are facing a dilemma about where and how to deploy their application security solution. One of the most common approaches that organizations take is to deploy a reverse proxy security solution i...

Why Now Is the Time to Jump into Cybersecurity and Join Imperva

Throughout history, periods of disruption are followed by eras of progress and transformation. While we are living through an unprecedented time, I believe we are on the cusp of another chapter of innovation — and I expect cybersecurity will be at the center of it. Cybersecurity Awareness Month, ...

Imperva An Eight-Time Magic Quadrant Leader for Web Application and API Protection

2021 has seen a lot of change. Billionaires now go where only governments and Red Bull gimmicks could go before. The 2020 Olympics didn’t take place in 2020. Tom Brady won his 7th Super Bowl for a completely new franchise those of you in the US get this reference. Similar change in application...

Web Application Attacks on Healthcare Spike 51% As COVID-19 Vaccines are Introduced

As the first vials of COVID-19 vaccines were disseminated in December, Imperva Research Labs monitored an astounding 51% increase in web application attacks on healthcare targets. The activity concludes an unprecedented year of cybersecurity activity. Imperva data shows the healthcare industry...

Imperva to acquire jSonar: A New Generation of Data Security

I’m thrilled to announce that Imperva has entered into an agreement to acquire jSonar! We view jSonar’s incredible product and technology as perfectly aligned with our mission to protect data and all paths to it. Together, we will be able to deliver a fundamentally new approach to data security t...

When The Going Gets Tough – R&D Calls With Customers – Doing It Right!

Several years ago, I joined the development team of a new product within Imperva. I discovered that direct interaction between us developers and our customers was much more frequent than on more mature products - customer calls are an invaluable tool when developing from scratch. However, these...

Is Your AWS Data Secure and Compliant? Cloud Database Visibility in Minutes

Internal and external attackers are after your data. Regardless of where the data resides, cloud, or on-premises, you need to protect it. In some cases that data needs to be put under compliance controls. Data protection principles hold for data hosted in the cloud database as a service DBaaS. Fo...

Healthcare IT Leaders Most Concerned about Ransomware and Insider Threats: Survey

Just over a year ago, the WannaCry ransomware attack wreaked havoc on the UK National Health Service NHS, ultimately disrupting a third of its facilities and causing a rash of canceled appointments and operations. Breaches are always a concern in healthcare, but this incident brought to light its...

Cloud Migration: Technical and Business Considerations

If you’re like many businesses, you’re moving applications into public and private cloud infrastructures. You’ve seen how the cloud’s agility, resiliency, and scalability drives business growth. Fortunately, rolling out new apps in the cloud is easy when you have containers, microservices, and...

How to Secure AWS Deployments with SecureSphere WAF

The Imperva SecureSphere Web Application Firewall WAF analyzes all user access to business-critical web applications and protects your applications and data from cyberattacks. SecureSphere WAF dynamically learns an applications’ “normal” behavior and correlates it with crowd-sourced threat...

Are All Ransom Attacks Considered Ransomware?

Ransomware has loomed large in the news of late. It seems to be around every turn, and it’s not going anywhere. The untraceability of Bitcoin payments, coupled with new blackhat tools available to anyone at little if any cost, means extortion attempts will continue to grab headlines worldwide. Bu...

Security by Design: Why Multi-Factor Authentication Matters More Than Ever

In an era marked by escalating cyber threats and evolving risk landscapes, organisations face mounting pressure to strengthen their security posture whilst maintaining seamless user experiences. At Thales, we recognise that robust security must be foundational - embedded into products and service...

Trouble in Da Hood: Malicious Actors Use Infected PyPI Packages to Target Roblox Cheaters

The world of gaming can be a cut-throat place, with many players turning to online help via third-party programs ‘game hacks’ to get ahead. Although some of these programs offer legitimate game boosts, malicious actors frequently leverage these game hackers’ interest in modifications to deliver...

Agentless is a DAM Better Option for Securing Cloud Data

When it comes to on-premises database activity monitoring DAM, security teams have consistently relied on agents to seamlessly track all incoming requests and outgoing responses within the databases. The agent-based approach effectively ensures independent monitoring of database activity,...

Security Flaw in CoCalc: One Click and Your Cloud is Ruined

TL;DR Imperva Threat Research discovered and reported a security flaw in the CoCalc Cloud environment. The flaw enabled potential attackers to completely take over a target’s account with only a single click from the victim. This flaw was due primarily to the lack of separation between the user...

Imperva & Thales: Pioneering a New Era in Cybersecurity

Imperva has been a beacon of excellence for over twenty years in the digital protection landscape, where innovation is paramount. Renowned for its groundbreaking products, Imperva has not just secured applications, APIs, and data for the worlds leading organizations but has done so with incredibl...

Why Bad Bots Are the Digital Demons of the Internet

In the dimly lit corners of the internet, where shadows flicker and eerie silences prevail, there lurks entities of malevolent intent. They are not the stuff of old wives tales or campfire ghost stories. We’re talking about bad bots, the digital bogeymen of the digital age. These nefarious beings...

Imperva Announces Joining the EDB GlobalConnect Technology Partner Program and Certification of Imperva’s DSF Agents to Support EDB Postgres Advanced Server and Community PostgreSQL Databases

It’s official, Imperva has joined the EnterpriseDB EDB GlobalConnect Technology Partner Program. While Imperva has supported and protected the EDB Postgres Advanced Server and community PostgreSQL databases, it is now an EDB Certified security solution. Imperva’s Data Security Fabric DSF agents a...

2023 Predictions: The Data Security Shake-up

The move to the cloud continues to create complexity around data security. In 2023, Imperva believes the increasingly diverse data landscape will drive a fundamental shift in the people, processes, and technology in cybersecurity. Imperva’s data security leaders explain how IT environments will...

Imperva Threat Research Shows Cyber Attacks on the Rise in Australia

Every year, cyber attacks increase. Attackers get smarter, tools get better, and incentives to target sites grow. Over the last year, Imperva Threat Research detected a large increase in attacks targeting Australian sites, more than the global rise over the same timeframe. Australian attacks rose...

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...

Imperva Data Security Fabric Wins 2022 SC Media Trust Award for Data Security

SC Media has announced the winners of their 2022 SC Awards, with 38 companies, executives, and security solutions selected by their panel of judges as the best of the year. We are thrilled to report that ​Imperva Data Security Fabric has earned the 2022 SC Media Trust Award for Data Security. For...

Five Ways the Gaming & Gambling Industry is Targeted by Bad Bots

Let’s play a game of chance: What are the odds that your gaming website is being targeted by bad bots? Imperva research suggests they’re higher than you may think. Imperva’s 2022 Bad Bot Report reveals that 53.9 percent of traffic to gaming and gambling websites comes from bad bots. With the...

Reading the API Security Tea Leaves for 2022

Just as the global pandemic persists in redefining the new norm, so has enterprises’ growing investments in digital transformation initiatives to keep one step ahead of their competitors. APIs are the engine that are helping drive these digital transformations from the innovation of new services...

API Security Explained

As enterprises continue on their digital journeys, security teams are preparing for the good, the bad, and the ugly of APIs. We’ll explain in plain language what APIs do, how they are attacked, and how API security works either as a stand-alone solution or with Web Application Firewalls and DDoS...

Imperva Ships API Security Providing Continuous API Discovery and Data Classification with Two Deployment Models

Every day, organizations are challenged to bring products to market faster and out innovate their competition. At the heart of many digital transformation initiatives are development teams looking for ways to achieve initiatives and deliver on new product goals. Many of these teams openly embrace...

What to Include in a Cybersecurity Disaster Recovery Plan

If the unthinkable were to happen to your business, what’s your disaster recovery plan? If bad actors were to inject ransomware into your system, what’s your process for a return to normal working? Google the words “What do I do if I have a cybersecurity breach” and the first twenty results will...

New research reveals that one third of all log-in attempts on eCommerce sites are malicious

What do humans and bots have in common? A love for visiting online shopping sites: more than half 57% of all attacks on retail websites in 2021 were carried out by bots, compared to 33% for all other industries. It gets worse: a third of all log-in attempts on retail eCommerce websites are accoun...

New reforms will enhance the security and resilience of Australia’s critical infrastructure

Improving the security of critical infrastructure has become the focus of many governments around the world, including Australia. This is because a failure or disruption in one area of critical infrastructure can have flow on effects that affect a nation’s security, economy and sovereignty. In th...

Your inbox is mine. How attackers could gain continuous access to your email

Although new messaging apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, and Messenger have taken a large chunk of our day to day communications, email remains one of the most popular ways we communicate. In this post we’ll talk about the post exploitation of a vulnerability we recently disclosed to one of the most...

Forrester report suggests Imperva Data Protection delivers high value and rapid ROI

In mid-2021, Imperva commissioned Forrester Research to interview five current Imperva enterprise customers - two in the financial services industry and three in the insurance industry. The goal of the exercise was to gain insight into the economic impact of deploying the Imperva data security...

WAF and RASP: Best Practice for Defense in Depth

Why do you need a RASP solution if WAFs layer of defense is so powerful? The simple answer is that no single security product can provide protection for all threat vectors. A comprehensive IT security strategy includes risk-appropriate controls implemented where they can provide maximum efficacy,...

A Quick-Start Introduction to Database Security: An Operational Approach

The recent SingHealth data breach incident exposed around 1.5 million patients’ records. In its aftermath, the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore published a set of security measures aimed at improving the protection of Personally Identifiable Information PII data. The recommended security measur...

2018 Cyberthreat Defense Report: Where IT Security Is Going

What keeps you awake at night? We asked IT security professionals the same question and found that these issues are top of mind: malware and spear phishing, securing mobile devices, employee security awareness and new technologies that detect threats capable of bypassing traditional signature-bas...

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,...

Imperva Customers Protected Against CVE-2026-21962 in Oracle HTTP and WebLogic

What Is CVE-2026-21962? CVE-2026-21962 is a critical CVSS 10.0 vulnerability in the Oracle HTTP Server and the WebLogic Server Proxy Plug-in for Apache HTTP Server and Microsoft IIS. An unauthenticated attacker with HTTP access can exploit this flaw by sending crafted requests to the affected pro...

The 2025 WAF Wave from the Other Side

Forrester just published its 2025 Web application Firewall Wave. As a former industry analyst, and as a contributor on the vendor side for Imperva cough, a leader in the report, cough, let me share some reactions on the shape of this report. The Center of the Universe The first top level header H...