Imperva 收购 jSonar： 新一代数据安全

我很高兴地宣布，Imperva 已达成收购 jSonar 的协议！我们认为，jSonar 令人难以置信的产品和技术与我们保护数据和所有通往数据的路径的使命完美契合。合并之后，我们将能够提供一种全新的数据安全方法，帮助企业满足当前和未来的需求。 Imperva，数据安全的先驱 Imperva 成立于 18 年前，其理念是通过融合应用程序和数据安全来保护组织的数字资产和信息。2020 年，全球最大的公司告诉我们一个道理，所有的安全性（包括网络和应用程序）最终目的都是为了保护数据。从长远来看，网络的存在是为了把人们带到应用程序中，而应用程序则负责读写数据。Imperva...

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...

Security Strategies for DevOps, APIs, Containers and Microservices

More and more IT professionals see DevSecOps, a practice which integrates security measures earlier in the development process to improve production code quality, as a mainstay for future application development. Much of this stems from the growing trend towards speeding up application developmen...

OWASP LLM Top 10 2026: Every Move Points the Same Direction

This is Post 4 of a four-part series: Post 1: Agentic AI Security: The Chatbot Era Is Over Post 2: Generative AI Security: Why AI Needs a New Kind of Security Post 3: The OWASP LLM Top 10 Was the Warm-Up: What Comes Next The 2026 edition of the the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications, published by...

Code Injection in Perforce Helix Core (CVE-2026-6902)

Executive Summary In this article, we disclose our latest findings we made on Perforce protocol P4 Helix Core between command line client and server, and reveal how a threat actor could leverage it to conduct attacks. This security issue affects P4 Helix Core before P4 Helix Core 2025.2 Patch 2,...

Integrating Advanced API Security with Imperva Gateway Environment

As APIs power the majority of modern web applications, implementing robust API security is no longer optional - it’s a critical necessity for data protection. This guide explores how to seamlessly integrate API gateway security into your Imperva on-premises environment to mitigate OWASP Top 10...

Paris, The Thinker, and why your WAF should block XSS by default

With Thales HQ in Paris, it felt right to detour to the Musée Rodin and stand before The Thinker, the bronze giant by Auguste Rodin whose clenched posture and chin-in-hand stance have become a universal symbol of deep judgment. Conceived for The Gates of Hell in 1880 and first cast monumentally i...

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 ...

Navigating the Waters of Generative AI

Part I: The Good and the Bad of AI Few would argue that 2023 was the year AI, specifically generative AI Gen AI like ChatGPT, was discussed everywhere. In October, Forrester published a report about how security tools will leverage AI. The findings in that report showed that Gen AI would augment...

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 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...

Augmented Software Engineering in an AI Era

Artificial Intelligence AI has been making waves in many industries, and software engineering is no exception. AI has the potential to revolutionize the way software is developed, tested, and maintained, bringing a new level of automation and efficiency to the field. However, with this...

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...

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...

Are you getting the most out of your security platform investment?

In the last few years, most organizations had to accelerate their digital transformation to continue operations during the pandemic. However, as more software, applications, and data architectures were added to the technology stack, the number of tools implemented to secure these assets became...

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...

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...

Enhance Network Resiliency with Contingency DDoS Protection

Recent digital market outages have proven the fragility of network infrastructure. When your primary service provider experiences an unexpected outage, your infrastructure is left unprotected and vulnerable to a DDoS attack. The downtime you face waiting for your DDoS mitigation to start working...

How to Develop Machine Learning Skills for Every Employee in Your Company

Everyone loves Artificial Intelligence AI and Data Science DS, and it’s probably not going to change for the next decade or so. Even so, most people only have the general idea what data science is and what machine learning or AI algorithms can do. This is quite normal and a common phenomenon for...

Evasive Bots Drive Online Fraud – 2022 Imperva Bad Bot Report

The 2022 Imperva Bad Bot Report is now available. The report is the ninth annual in-depth analysis of bot traffic, created with data collected from Impervas global network throughout the past year by the Imperva Threat Research Team. Bad bots are software applications that run automated tasks wit...

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...

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...

Let’s Get Under the Hood of Imperva Snapshot

A stress-free guide for the prudent cloud operator With minimal setup, Imperva Snapshot enables you to immediately start your in-depth Amazon Web Services AWS RDS database assessment. With no prior training required, cloud operators can use this useful tool to pinpoint deficiencies in their...

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...

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...

How to Exploit SQL Server Using Registry Keys

At the Imperva Research Labs we have the chance to scrutinize various security situations. In this blog, we will take a closer look at database security on SQL Server. One routine approach that security practitioners employ to protect databases is deploying honeypots and waiting for bad actors to...

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...

Integrate Your Ticketing System into Database Security to Prevent DBA Privilege Abuse

Many of the recent high-profile data security breaches were made by trusted insiders. They are often database administrators DBAs who are highly privileged and trusted insiders with access to sensitive data. In this blog post, I will discuss the inherent risk introduced by highly privileged...

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...

Securing the Journey: Cybersecurity Challenges in the Tourism Industry

This weekend is World Tourism Day, a celebration of the global travel industry and the cultural, economic, and social connections it fosters. However, as the tourism industry continues to grow and evolve, it faces an increasing array of cybersecurity threats. From data breaches targeting personal...

QUIC-LEAK (CVE-2025-54939): New High-Risk Pre-Handshake Remote Denial of Service in LSQUIC QUIC Implementation

Imperva Offensive team discovered that threat actors could smuggle malformed packets to exhaust memory and crash QUIC servers even before a connection handshake is established, therefore, bypassing QUIC connection-level safeguards. Executive Summary QUIC-LEAK CVE-2025-54939 is a newly discovered...

Hijacking Ollama’s Signed Installer for Code Execution

This blog post is part of an ongoing series exploring how AI related tools aimed at developers can be exploited to compromise their machines. As these tools increasingly integrate deep system access, they also expand the attack surface available to threat actors. In our first post, we outlined a...

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...

The Future of SSL Certificate Management: Adapting to Shortened Renewal Periods

The industry is evolving yet again. With the CA/Browser Forum's recent decision to reduce the maximum SSL/TLS certificate lifecycle to 47 days by 2029, the way organizations manage their certificates is going to change significantly—and sooner than most realize. This update builds on the trend of...

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...

How Cyberthreats Could Disrupt the Olympics

Introduction Cybersecurity experts are on high alert, as the 2024 Olympic Games continue over the coming weeks. Historically, the Olympics have been a prime target for cybercriminals, state-sponsored actors, and hacktivists. The convergence of global attention, vast amounts of sensitive data, and...

Why it Pays to Have a Comprehensive API Security Strategy

In an era dominated by digital connectivity and rapid technological advancements, Application Programming Interfaces APIs play a pivotal role in facilitating seamless communication and data exchange between diverse software applications. As API usage continues to grow, so does the need for robust...

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...

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...

The Global DDoS Threat Landscape – November 2022

Every month in this space, we will post the Global DDoS Threat Landscape blog on behalf of the Imperva Threat Research team. As DDoS attacks continue to pose a significant risk to businesses, it is critical that we regularly communicate our Threat Research team’s findings to help the cybersecurit...

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...

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...

Five Ways Cyber Attackers Leverage Bad Bots to Commit Automated Fraud

The accelerated shift to digital payments has made online fraud more prevalent than ever, as losses from it are expected to exceed $206 billion over the next five years, driven by identity fraud, fake accounts, and payment fraud. Catalyzed by the pandemic, the shift gained substantial traction in...

3 Recommendations to Ensure Your API Security Solution can Drive Data Visibility and Quality

Today at least 90% of developers are using APIs in cloud-native web application development. According to new data collected by Forrester Research and presented in their report, Improve API Performance with a Sound API Security Strategy, 62 percent of IT decision makers believe the value they gai...

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...

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...

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...