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...

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 SD-SOC: How Using AI and Time Series Traffic Improves DDoS Mitigation

Much has changed since we first started providing protection against DDoS attacks. Attacks which were once considered huge are now mitigated on a daily basis, attackers are becoming more sophisticated by the day, and mitigation takes a matter of seconds, as opposed to minutes, to kick in. But one...

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...

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,...

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...

What is NYDFS?

NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulation, 23 NYCRR 500 On March 1, 2017, the New York State Department of Financial Services NYDFS introduced new cybersecurity regulations for financial services companies that address the growing threat posed by cyber-criminality to financial firms. They are intended to...

Understanding the Capacity Management Challenges of Database Monitoring Solutions

Database monitoring requires hardware resources such as storage space and processing power that can withstand the volume of database usage in your organization. A higher usage volume will require more resources. So how can you optimize the resources used by your database monitoring solution? Do y...

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...

Early 2025 DDoS Attacks Signal a Dangerous Trend in Cybersecurity

As we enter 2025, the threat landscape continues to evolve, with Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attacks growing in both scale and sophistication. So far this year, we’ve already seen several major DDoS attacks over 5 million Requests Per Second RPS, signaling a concerning trend for...

Imperva and the Secure by Design Pledge: A Commitment to Cybersecurity Excellence

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has introduced a voluntary "Secure by Design Pledge" for enterprise software manufacturers, focusing on improving the security of their products and services. This pledge outlines seven key principles, forming the core of a robust...

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...

Imperva Expands Global Network, Adds First PoP in Vietnam

We are delighted to announce our first Point of Presence PoP in Hanoi, Vietnam, expanding our global network with our 16th PoP located in the Asia Pacific & Japan APJ region. Alongside its rich culture and historic sites, Hanoi, the enchanting capital city of Vietnam, is a bustling business cente...

DDoS Attacks Leveraged by Attackers in Israel Conflict

Over the last few years, we’ve observed Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attacks used in many conflicts. In the Russia-Ukraine war, DDoS was used both by government cyber agencies and individual hacktivist groups to disrupt the flow of information and deface sites to promote propaganda. The...

Understanding Business Logic Abuse and Its Detection Challenges

Digital modernization and automation have been on a rapid trajectory for the last 5 years and were thrust forward at an even faster pace when the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown period took hold in 2020. For businesses and consumers alike this acceleration of advanced technology...

Why Healthcare Cybercrime is the Perfect Storm

Its Friday night. You, your husband, and your two children are settling in for a fun pizza and movie night together. Unexpectedly, your elderly neighbor, Anne, calls in a panic. Her husband Steve is having severe chest pains. While Anne has already called emergency services, she asks that you com...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

By the Numbers: The State of Security in eCommerce

The ongoing global pandemic has accelerated eCommerce growth and pushed more consumers online. More consumers mean a larger threat landscape and ensure that cybersecurity issues remain a significant, ongoing challenge for the retail industry. Based on a 12-month analysis by Imperva Research Labs,...

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...

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...

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, ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Can a License Solve Your Cloud Migration Problem?

No, but it can certainly reduce friction. Cloud adoption is no longer an if, but a when. Even Gartner says there’s no such thing as a ‘no cloud policy.’ The winds of technology change are blowing, but no enterprise is talking about 100% cloud adoption in the near term. Hybrid IT environments are...

Compromise OpenClaw with Prompt Injections in Message Objects

Executive Summary As powerful personal AI assistants become increasingly widespread, their ability to access tools, files, and external services also makes them susceptible to prompt injection attacks, where malicious content can manipulate their behavior. This research evaluated OpenClaw against...

Enterprise-Grade Application Security, Cloud-Native Speed: Introducing Imperva for Google Cloud

In today’s dynamic digital environment, the pressure to innovate has never been greater. Development teams are pushing for native cloud tools to maximize performance and cost-efficiency, while security teams require best-of-breed, enterprise-grade protection to defend against an ever-evolving...

The Privacy Gap in API Security: Why Protecting APIs Shouldn’t Put Your Data at Risk

The more critical APIs become, the more sensitive data they carry identities, payment details, health records, customer preferences, tokens, keys, and more. And this is where organizations face a painful, often invisible problem: To protect APIs, many organizations end up exposing the very data...

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,...

81% Increase in Large-Volume DDoS Attacks

Since 2021, distributed denial of service DDoS attacks have trended upwards, both in volume and frequency. Layer 7 DDoS attacks of at least 500,000 requests per second RPS increased 81% in the past year. In addition to greater frequency, attack sizes were larger in 2022 than in 2021. The largest...

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...

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...

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...

Gain Insight into Database Security Vulnerabilities you Didn’t Know you Had

Identifying and taking action to stop policy-violating behavior is hard enough when you have complete insight into the risks affecting your data repositories. It is virtually impossible to achieve security, however, when you cannot even see these risks to your data repositories. Unfortunately, to...

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...

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...

Why Insisting on Complicated Passwords can be a Dangerous Security Practice

According to the Forester Insider Threat report, commissioned by Imperva in 2021, 50% of the companies surveyed plan to increase security awareness among their employees over the next 12 months. Many are already doing so and have solid practices in place. According to the 2022 Ponemon Report on t...

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...

Protecting today’s web applications requires more than a firewall

The way organizations build web applications has changed dramatically over the last several years. As a result, many organizations are considering additional security strategies to augment the Web Application Firewall WAF on which they have relied to protect critical digital business operations...

Why you need to rethink your data security strategy and go beyond DLP

The increasing frequency and scale of data breaches has highlighted the need for organizations to rethink their approach to data security. Data Loss Prevention DLP technologies have been around for decades and formed a large part of many organizations’ data protection strategies. However, there i...