7 Ways Good Data Security Practices Drive Data Governance

As more organizations continue with digital transformation plans, their ability to be good stewards of the data for which they are responsible becomes more difficult. They are generating more data, more data types, in more repositories, in more and different architectures. Every day, organization...

How to Support Agile Development Through Cybersecurity Best Practices

Understanding other peoples problems It’s often said that people only notice cybersecurity when it fails, or when it gets in the way of them doing their jobs. Organizations, and especially software development teams, want to be able to develop quickly and easily to stay ahead of their competition...

Research Shows the Annual Cost of API Security-related Breaches is Mind-blowing

Application Programming Interfaces APIs have emerged as useful tools that streamline business operations and enhance the digital experience for customers. As their use has become more widespread, they are a much more prominent part of the cyber threat landscape. API-related hacks and data breache...

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...

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...

ATO Attacks Targeting Financial Services Increased 58 Percent in May. Who Else Needs to Worry?

Account takeover ATO is a form of identity theft that cyber criminals use to get unauthorized access to the accounts of legitimate users through some kind of brute force method such as Credential Stuffing. In 2022, account takeover attacks are on the rise. In June for example, Imperva’s Threat...

Determining “Need to share vs. Need to know” is a Cornerstone of a Data Protection Strategy

There is a paradox that lies at the heart of data security. Data itself only has real value if an organization can share it with stakeholders that need it to perform their roles. However, the more widely an organization shares data the greater the risks of the data being compromised. Data securit...

6 Best Data Security Practices You Can Start Today

Given the dramatic increases in the volume and frequency of data theft due to breaches and the increased threat of cyberattacks resulting from current conflicts, organizations worldwide are prioritizing tactical and strategic efforts to shore up their data security. Here are six best practices yo...

Annual Imperva Hackathon Inspires 2022 Product Roadmap

Bold ideas, diverse thought and challenging the status quo sum up the Imperva state-of-mind. We’re always looking to inspire the next big innovation that can transform the future of the cybersecurity industry. But if there’s anything the past year and a half has taught us, it’s that transformativ...

Wake up and smell the Javascript – website supply chain puts online retail at risk

There are more than 1.8 billion websites online today, and almost 98% of them are powered by JavaScript. There’s a good reason for this: JavaScript’s flexibility and portability enable the rich online functionality we’ve all come to know and love. But what happens when that same functionality...

The ad blocker that injects ads

Deceptive ad injection is a growing concern on the internet today, affecting many people browsing the web. And while the concept isn’t new Google stated it was the most common complaint amongst Chrome users back in 2015, just like with other online threats, bad actors are constantly refining thei...

Fostering the Next Generation of Female Technologists at Imperva

Today marks the start of the 2021 Grace Hopper Celebration, the largest gathering of female technology leaders in the world. Last year, over 40,000 women from 117 different countries attended virtually, bringing together their research and career interests to help inform and inspire others. As...

From Layers to Microunits

The evolution of “Code Cohesion” and “Separation of Concerns” The software industry has recognized the values of “Separation of Concerns” and “Code Cohesion” for more than two decades. Many articles, books and software-thinkers have contributed methodologies to implement these important values. I...

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...

Build-Your-Own Data Masking. Yes or No?

A lot of organizations are taking great strides to protect their sensitive data with a multi-layered strategy—one that includes data masking. We’ve even seen many tackling this critical data security component in DIY fashion, often tasking one resource with developing and implementing scripts to...

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...

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...

Today’s File Security is So ’80s, Part 1: Why the Traditional Approach to File Security is Broken

In today’s knowledge-driven economy, modern enterprises have a fluid organizational structure in which most employees have access to most data to do their jobs. Working groups are formed organically and are cross-functional by nature. The amount of unstructured data organizations create is growin...

Shortening Your DCAP Short List: Five Critical Things to Consider for a Data-Centric Audit and Protection Solution

Exponential data growth. You’ve heard it many times before, but it’s still the most accurate way to describe the enormous and growing amount of data that businesses generate and collect today. It’s this growth that is driving today’s enterprises to revisit their strategies for data security and...

GDPR Series, Part 4: The Penalties for Non-Compliance

In the first three parts of this series, we covered the GDPR basics: who is subject to the GDPR requirements, what rules require data protection technology, and how you can start preparing your organization for the regulation. In this final installment, we will cover what happens when you are not...

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,...

React2DoS (CVE-2026-23869): When the Flight Protocol Crashes at Takeoff

Executive Summary In this article, we disclose a new high severity unauthenticated remote denial‑of‑service vulnerability we identified and reported in React Server Components that we’ve dubbed “React2DoS”. In this blog, we’ll analyze its impact and place it in the broader context of recently fou...

Misconfigurations of Cloud-Managed Infrastructures Continue to be a Major Challenge to Data Security

In case you missed the memo, cloud-hosted data is here to stay. Recent data shows spending on cloud services reached a total of $178 billion in 2021, a 37 percent increase over the $130 billion spent in 2020 and twice the amount enterprises are spending on their data centers. As more organization...

Three Keys to Securing Shadow Data

What is shadow data? Shadow data is any data contained anywhere in your entire data repository that is not visible to the tools you use to monitor and log data access. Shadow data may include: Customer data that DevOps teams copied into an unknown database to test applications they are developing...

Enable Security Teams to Leverage Machine Learning Technologies

As on-premises and cloud-hosted data repositories get larger, they are outstripping the ability of traditional data-crunching methods to efficiently analyze the information. As a result, more enterprises have turned to data science and machine learning platforms to create business value. The...

Three Keys to Turning Data-centric Security Theory into Practice

Most cybersecurity professionals agree that as more organizations move data and applications to cloud-hosted environments, traditional measures focusing on protecting IT infrastructures are not up to the task. In fact, according to Crowd Research Partners, 84 percent of organizations say...

Five Data Security Controls and Processes you Must Bring to Cloud-native Infrastructures

Too frequently, there are significant misunderstandings in organizations with regard to who has the responsibility to protect cloud-hosted data. In Imperva’s recent report, A Data-Centric Cybersecurity Framework for Digital Transformation, IT analyst and author Richard Stiennon explains what...

What is Dark Data, and how can we find it?

What is “dark data”? The term “dark data” refers to “any information assets that organizations collect, process, and store during regular business activities but generally fail to use for other purposes” Gartner. Often retained for compliance reasons, this data can also include past employee...

New Waiting Room Solution Ensures Best Peak User Experience

New Imperva Waiting Room Enables Organizations to Deliver Consistent Optimal Website User Experiences During Peak Traffic Periods Organizations benchmark website success by the volume of legitimate traffic and online sales it generates. Website architects want to drive as many visitors as possibl...

How the Evolution of Agents has Been Essential for Modern Database Security

In today’s data driven world, every organization’s most important asset is their data. Accordingly and similarly to other protected components like applications, web and peripheral gateways, databases require a dedicated security solution as well. An essential database security solution must...

How CISOs can Find and Retain Security Staff During the Great Resignation

The rising demand for cybersecurity professionals As if the skill shortfall in cybersecurity wasn’t bad enough, the employment landscape is shifting rapidly. This shift is due, in part, to historically low unemployment claims, unrivaled quit rates, and swathes of baby boomers and older Gen X...

8 Ways to Avoid CISO Burnout

Times have changed In recent years the job of Chief Information Security Officer CISO has become more and more frenetic and involved. Already stretched CISOs have the added responsibilities of employee management in a time of a global pandemic, staff retention when priorities have changed and...

APIs Are Here to Stay, so Get in Front of Securing Them

A recent IDC survey reported that 38 percent of organizations identified cybersecurity threats and regulations as the factor having the greatest impact on their technology investment planning over the next two years. The survey also revealed that for organizations taking a digital-first business...

Ransom DDoS Enters its Fourth Wave

Extortionists target industries with most to lose from an outage Cybercriminals continue to target organizations threatening Denial of Service DDoS attacks in exchange for a ransom payment, traditionally demanded in bitcoin BTC. And it seems that no matter how many times these ransom threat cycle...

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...

Scalpers, and their bot armies, swing in to net web-based Spiderman tickets

29 November 2021 was “Spider Monday” and tickets for Marvel’s film Spider-Man: No Way Home went on sale with the sort of marketing fervor for which Disney and the Marvel Cinematic Universe MCU are famous. As tickets to one of the most eagerly anticipated Christmas films featuring one of the most...

Imperva Cloud Data Security adds Azure SQL support to build on extensive DBaaS coverage

It’s kind of mind boggling to see just how fast the market is adopting cloud managed database services also referred to as DBaaS. According to market research firm Imarc Group, In 2020, the overall market size was $12.8 billion, and within five years it’s expected to reach over $31 billion. That’...

A security architect’s POV on a mature data-centric security program, Part 1

In this three-part series, you’ll hear first-hand from security architects on the front lines about what it takes to move organizations from a compliance-centric to a mature data-centric database security model. You’ll gain insight into the challenges associated with retaining, accessing and...

The Trickster Hackers – Backdoor Obfuscation and Evasion Techniques

A backdoor is a method for bypassing the normal authentication or encryption of a system. Sometimes developers construct backdoors to their own programs for various reasons. For example, to provide easy maintenance, developers introduce a backdoor that enables them to restore the manufacturer’s...

Get a Single View of WAF Events with the Imperva AppSecurity View App for Splunk Enterprise

Enterprises are adopting a hybrid infrastructure model to take advantage of rapid deployment of cloud-based services and higher computing power. A compilation of analyst predictions by SecureWorks, shows that the cloud continues to gain momentum as organizations embrace and benefit from new ways ...

Hot on the Credential Theft Trail: Tracking a Hacker from a Dropbox Phishing Campaign

We the Imperva Defense Center research team frequently investigate cases of credential theft to gain a deeper understanding of methods and tools used by cyber criminals—in particular, to learn how accounts are taken over once credentials are compromised through phishing campaigns. We recently cho...

Imperva Customers Protected Against CVE-2026-9082 in Drupal Core

TL;DR:CVE-2026-9082 is a highly critical SQL injection vulnerability in Drupal core that can be exploited by unauthenticated users against Drupal sites using PostgreSQL. The vulnerability affects Drupal’s database abstraction API and can allow specially crafted requests to trigger arbitrary SQL...

N8N: Shared Credentials and Account Takeover

Executive Summary We identified a security weakness in n8n’s credential management layer that could have completely compromised the application’s security. This finding highlights the core risks of centralized authentication in workflow automation platforms. As n8n serves as the central hub...

Another Critical RCE Discovered in a Popular MCP Server

Artificial Intelligence development is moving faster than secure coding practices, and attackers are taking notice. Imperva Threat Research recently uncovered and disclosed a critical Remote Code Execution RCE vulnerability CVE-2025-53967 in the Framelink Figma MCP Server. This is just one exampl...

Meet Andy Zollo, SVP of APJ Sales

Andy Zollo, who led the Imperva business in EMEA, relocated to Singapore in October to be Senior Vice President of Sales for the combined Imperva and Thales CPL businesses in the APJ region. With a wealth of experience in sales leadership and business transformation, Andy is set to play a vital...

What’s Different About Data Security in the Cloud? Almost Everything.

In 2019, most organizations already had digital transformation plans in place. These plans included migrating workloads to modern cloud architectures. However, the Covid-19 pandemic compelled organizations to expedite their modernization efforts due to practical reasons. For instance, setting up ...

Understanding the OWASP API Security Top 10: Why BOLA is the Number One Risk for APIs

Understanding and addressing vulnerabilities is critical in cybersecurity, where APIs serve as the backbone for seamless data exchange. The OWASP API Security Top 10, revised in 2023, provides a comprehensive guide to the critical issues that organizations must tackle to ensure the robust securit...

Breaking it Down: A Data-Centric Security Perspective on NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0

On February 26, 2024, NIST released version 2.0 of the Cybersecurity Framework. This blog reviews the fundamental changes introduced in CSF 2.0 and data-centric security considerations that should be made when aligning with the new framework. As cybercriminals become more sophisticated, efficient...

Healthcare Needs Risk-Based Cybersecurity for Comprehensive, Effective Protection

In the first blog post of this three-blog series, we discussed the extraordinarily powerful “perfect storm” of cyber risk faced by healthcare organizations. The second blog post reviews how data security risks persist despite HIPAA compliance. In this third blog, we will discuss how to get starte...

Five Takeaways from Black Friday & Cyber Monday Cyber Attacks

The online retail industry is one of the prime targets for cybercrime, as detailed in our annual analysis of the cybersecurity threats targeting eCommerce websites and applications. As the 2023 holiday shopping season continues, Imperva Threat Research is closely monitoring how cybercriminals are...