A Recap of Released Features in Q3 for Imperva’s Online Fraud Prevention Solution

Advanced Bot Protection Earlier this year, Imperva was named a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Bot Management, Q2 2022. Advanced Bot Protection ABP ranked at the top in the current offering category, based on criteria including the range of supported use cases, bot detection, configuration and...

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...

“Don’t touch that server. Ralf set that up, and we don’t know what it does.”

Based on a true story… More than a couple of decades ago, I went to work for a network and web company as their customer marketing department. It was a crazy time. Online marketing was all about getting on DMOZ, Lycos was still a puppy, asking Jeeves felt like talking to an AI, and how you laid o...

Data Protection as the Foundation of Trust: Celebrating Privacy Awareness Week in APAC

As part of our mission to help organisations protect their data and all paths to it, Imperva is supporting Privacy Awareness Week in Australia and Singapore, with the aim of educating individuals and organisations about the importance of data privacy and protection. In today’s digital economy, da...

How Web Applications Are Attacked Through APIs

Happy Pi Day, everyone! As a technician, pi is a number that represents a constant. This constant reflects the ongoing cyberthreats that put enterprise assets at continuous risk as digital transformation and the resultant attack surface grow in parallel. Whether it’s a simple identity theft hack...

Imperva Suspends Operations in Russia and Belarus

We are heartbroken by the escalation of events in Ukraine, and the tragic loss of life, displacement of people, culture and history. The safety of our global team remains a priority, and we’re in constant communication with Impervians in Ukraine to ensure their well-being and that of their...

5 Ways to Determine if you do Cybersecurity or Cybersecurity Theater

For a sentient species, humans, in general, have curious ideas when it comes to reckoning and responding to risk. For example, studies show using seat belts when driving in automobiles save lives. Studies also show when cyclists use helmets more cyclists’ lives are saved. This research drives...

Why ATO Attacks Are Attacks on Your Customers

Motivated by the continual surge in eCommerce, which according to UNCTAD has seen unprecedented growth during the COVID-19 pandemic, retailers are scrambling to adapt to a shift in consumer demand and create unique customer experiences that set them apart from the competition. The rise in online...

Recent NPM package hack is an alarming reminder of the risks of website supply-chain fraud

There are over 1.8 billion websites online today. Almost 98% of them are powered by JavaScript, and for a good reason: JavaScript’s flexibility and portability enable the rich online functionality we’ve all come to know and love. But when that same functionality becomes a significant vector for...

Four Essential Features for a Database Security Strategy to Take on a Growing Threat Landscape

For a considerable time, many organizations have used three to five on-premise databases to manage their workloads, and many teams have tried to funnel every application into using those databases. Today, as the pressure to innovate while keeping costs low intensifies, organizations have started...

Bad bots continue to evolve. Your mitigation strategy should, too.

With the global pandemic continuing to catalyze digitalization, we’ve seen two years worth of digital transformation take place in a mere two months, according to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Clearly, bad actors are capitalizing on the opportunities that digital transformation creates, as more da...

Configuring Imperva SecureSphere for GDPR Compliance: Part One

Time is running out. 23 days until GDPR enforcement The GDPR effective date is less than a month away and, given the significant risk and potential costs associated with a failure to comply, organizational readiness efforts continue to mount. GDPR non-compliance penalties can be severe up to 79...

Get Going on Your GDPR Plan [Infographic]

General Data Protection Regulation GDPR enforcement begins May 2018. Are you ready? While enforcement may seem a way off, you don’t want to get derailed by last-minute planning efforts. Organizations should revisit their security and compliance strategies today to ensure they’re prepared to meet...

Imperva Customers Protected Against Novel HTTP Desync Attacks

TL;DR: Recent Portswigger research introduced novel HTTP desync techniques discovered through an AI-assisted research system called the HTTP Terminator. The findings expand the range of unusual HTTP behaviors that can cause front-end and back-end systems to interpret the same traffic differently...

MCP Server Security: The Blind Spot in Your AI Stack

Short version: an MCP server is the tooling layer that lets an AI agent act on external systems. Hosted remotely, it is an API endpoint like any other — and it needs bot and WAF controls in front of it, API security on its own endpoints, and AI guardrails that inspect what the tools send back, no...

Anthropic Mythos: Separating Signal from Hype

The recent buzz around Anthropic’s Mythos model has been intense, and for good reason. Early reports suggest a model that significantly advances automated reasoning over large codebases, vulnerability discovery, and exploit generation. Some are already calling it a “game changer” for offensive...

Black Friday 2025 in Review: What Retailers Need to Know About This Year’s Holiday Shopping Season

Holiday shopping season is in full swing, and Black Friday 2025 continued to demonstrate that consumer demand and attacker activity shows no signs of slowing. According to Adobe Analytics, U.S. consumers spent $11.8 billion online on Black Friday, setting a new record and highlighting sustained...

Google Pay, Drug Bots, and SIM Swaps: How Old Leaks and New Vulnerabilities Power Attacks

It starts with something simple: a CAPTCHA box on your screen. You type the number you see, because of course you do. That’s what humans do online. But what if that “CAPTCHA” wasn’t a CAPTCHA at all? In this post, I’ll walk you through how old data leaks, lazy telecom verification, and a...

When You’re Always Under #DDoS Attack

We recently mitigated a 1.55 terabit per second Tbps, DDoS attack for a steady customer of ours. This particular customer is a reputable domain name service DNS provider. I’ve personally used them for over a decade to register domains for all the projects I will never complete or, tbh, start. But...

Why Separating Control and Data Planes Matters in Application Security

Modern application environments are dynamic, distributed, and moving faster than ever. DevOps teams deploy new services daily, APIs multiply across regions, and traffic fluctuates by the hour. At the same time, organizations must uphold security, compliance, and availability without slowing...

The Rise of Agentic AI: From Chatbots to Web Agents

Disclaimer: This post isn’t our usual security-focused content – today we’re taking a quick detour to explore the fascinating world of AI agents with the focus of AI web agents. Enjoy this educational dive as a warm-up before we get into the juicy details of AI web agents in our follow-up post...

How Ticket Scalping Impacts Asia’s Live Entertainment Industry

Asia’s booming live entertainment industry has recently been plagued by a growing problem of ticket scalping. The term refers to the act of purchasing live event tickets in bulk by individuals, often through the use of automation aka bots, to later resell them at exorbitant prices. The issue isn’...

What is Quantum Computing, and Why Should Security Professionals Care?

Quantum computing basics Quantum computing embraces the laws of quantum mechanics to solve those problems that are currently too challenging for even the most high-performance modern computers. Across the board, it is a fundamental shift in computing with the potential to alter the way business i...

7 Ways Imperva Solutions Reduce the Cost of Data Security

As we push into Q4, economic uncertainty caused by rising interest rates, as-yet unchecked inflation, and a bear market is driving many enterprises to buck the trend and tighten cyber security budgets for the last three months of 2022. The result is increased pressure to achieve data security whi...

Q1 2022 Global DDoS Threat Landscape Report Findings Summary

Last week, Imperva released the Q1 2022 Global DDoS Threat Landscape Report. To produce the report’s findings, Imperva performs detailed statistical analysis of all DDoS activity that our Threat Research Labs monitored from our global network of PoPs during the first three months of 2022. In...

The role of runtime protection in eCommerce security

What is e-commerce security? E-commerce security is the set of guidelines that are designed to allow safe transactions on the web. These guidelines include steps and protocols that help protect the sale and purchase of goods and services online. Appropriate e-commerce security measures boost...

Holiday Shopping Season is Upon Us: The State of Security Within eCommerce in 2021

The eCommerce industry has gone through years worth of changes in a matter of just a mere couple of months as the global pandemic emerged back in March of 2020. These changes have led to skyrocketing growth for the industry, with sales predicted to hit $4.921 trillion by the end of this year. And...

Getting to Know Cybersecurity Awareness Month Champion: Imperva

As a cybersecurity industry leader, it is both our responsibility and our pleasure to work with the National Cyber Security Alliance NCSA and ​​the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency CISA of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security as a 2021 Cybersecurity Awareness Month Champion and to join...

Online fraud at an all-time high amidst the global pandemic

Client-side attacks have become significantly more prominent in recent years, gaining popularity since 2015. As online activity rises due to the global pandemic, 2020 has been no exception, with the most susceptible target, e-commerce, becoming more lucrative than ever. The Client-Side Problem...

GDPR and Breach Detection: How to Ask the Right Questions to Meet the GDPR Breach Notification Rule

It is now less than four months before the General Data Protection Regulation GDPR becomes effective. This new data regulation of the European Union is designed to provide individuals with rights and protections over their personal data collected by business around the world. It aims to unify dat...

DevOps in the Cloud: How Data Masking Helps Speed Development, Securely

Many articles have discussed the benefits of DevOps in the cloud. For example, the centralization of cloud computing provides DevOps automation with a standard platform for testing and development; the tight integration between DevOps tools and cloud platforms lowers the cost associated with...

Building a Security Risk Management Program

The frequency of data breaches today highlights the need to peel back the onion on security programs and identify a laser-focused mission and ultimate goal. As a compliance manager, I know the horror stories first hand. Let’s take a deeper dive into security and risk management basics to enable...

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...

What SecureIQLab Cloud WAAP 5.0 means for your application security

You cannot verify a vendor’s security claims from their own datasheet, including ours. That is why independent validation matters. In our recent guide to the best WAAP solutions Best WAAP Solutions 2026: Enterprise Buyer Guide, we argued that every serious shortlist should include independent...

Why Most DDoS Protection Fails: Solving for Continuity and Resilience

Most organisations assume DDoS Distributed denial of service protection is a box they’ve already ticked. If traffic spikes or an attack starts, the thinking goes, their provider will absorb it and move on. But in the real world it can be a different story. Many incidents aren’t caused by the scal...

A New Denial-of-Service Vector in React Server Components

React Server Components RSC have introduced a hybrid execution model that expands application capabilities while increasing the potential attack surface. Following earlier disclosures and fixes related to React DoS vulnerabilities, an additional analysis of RSC internals was conducted to assess...

CVE-2025-61757: Imperva Customers Protected Against Critical Oracle Identity Manager Authentication Bypass Leading to Remote Code Execution

At the end of October 2025, Oracle released an emergency security alert addressing CVE-2025-61757, a high-severity authentication-bypass flaw that enables remote code execution in the Identity Manager product of Oracle Fusion Middleware versions 12.2.1.4.0 and 14.1.2.1.0. Multiple threat actors a...

Imperva Named a Leader in KuppingerCole’s Leadership Compass 2025 for Web Application and API Protection

In the latest 2025 KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for Web Application and API Protection WAAP, Imperva has once again secured a Leadership position; a testament to our unwavering commitment to protecting the modern digital experience. Why This Report Matters The WAAP market represents the...

Elastic WAF: Reshaping Application Security for DevOps and Hybrid Environments

We recently discussed Imperva’s vision for the future of application security, where we also covered the Imperva Security Engine. This innovative application security framework is powering up the next generation of Imperva solutions, the first of which is Imperva Elastic WAF. This blog is the fir...

Harsher penalties for data breaches in new Australian privacy bill

High-profile breaches mean high-profile action In the aftermath of another crop of high-profile data breaches, the Australian Government also known as the Commonwealth Government has introduced amendments to Australian privacy law which give the regulator new powers and the ability to impose...

Help Employees and Consumers Avoid Self-inflicted Cybersecurity Mistakes

It shouldn’t be news to anyone that people sharing information online are concerned about the safety of their data. Imperva recently conducted a study with YouGov plc regarding consumers’ attitudes towards data, whether they feel in control of their personal data, and if they trust the...

Imperva Mitigates Massive Bot Attack of 400 Million Requests

Imperva Advanced Bot Protection detected and stopped the largest bot attack in Imperva history. The web scraping attack targeted a global job listing site with operations in six countries. The attacker used a large-scale botnet, generating no less than 400 million bot requests from nearly 400,000...

Imperva Champions Data Privacy Week 2022

As a cybersecurity industry leader, Imperva is working with the National Cybersecurity Alliance NCA as a 2022 Data Privacy Week Champion to promote the need for businesses to prioritize data privacy and protection and the importance of individuals and companies to secure their online data. As par...

What COVID Reminded Me About Compliance

It was another late-December morning a few days after Christmas and the weather was unseasonably cold where I live in New Jersey, in the northeast of the US. My daughters were a few days into their winter break and already getting into the routine of “waking-up-late-cereal-watching Netflix”. In m...

Grinchbots strike again this holiday shopping season as bot traffic spikes 73%

The days are getting chilly, holiday drinks are back on the menu at your favorite café and family gatherings are planned. In an almost pavlovian response, Grinchbots have also returned in record levels to ruin your online holiday shopping experience. In the State of Security Within eCommerce in...

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...

Do’s and Don’ts of Capacity Estimation for Database Monitoring Tools

When deploying a database monitoring tool, one of the first things you need to do is to determine the size of your deployment. So, where do you start? In a previous blog post I described the various aspects that can have an impact on the capacity requirements needed for a database monitoring...

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...

The Successful CISO: Tips for Paving the Way to Job Security

Seasoned CISOs know that failure to plan past a two-year window is dangerous—to both their company and their job security. But it’s all too common for many security strategies to look only two years out. Imperva CISO Shahar Ben-Hador has been with Imperva for eight-and-a-half years—the last...

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...