Imperva’s Comprehensive Data Security Platform for Cloud, Explained

Imperva recently introduced the industry’s first database-agnostic security platform specifically built for cloud. The Data Security solution unifies security management for organizations’ entire data environment, supporting databases wherever they’re hosted, including managed database services...

Log4Shell log4j Remote Code Execution – The COVID of the Internet

The Log4Shell zero day vulnerability is truly one of the most significant security threats of the past decade and its effects will be felt far into 2022 and beyond. Imperva has observed over 102M exploitation attempts across thousands of sites protected by Imperva Cloud Web Application Firewall...

Security for Amazon Redshift

We’ll show you how to set up basic monitoring of AWS Redshift using their native security features, including how to set up a Redshift instance, creating S3 buckets, and shipping the audit logs to Cloudwatch. Basic security for Amazon Redshift can be accomplished through standard AWS security...

Analytics Are Essential for Effective Database Security

We have all heard the saying, “early detection is critical.” This is true in most aspects of our daily lives; in everything from medical diagnosis, automobile issues, a leaky roof, credit card fraud, etc. It should come as no surprise that this is especially true in the context of data security...

Security Auditing for MongoDB on Atlas

MongoDB is a document-oriented NoSQL database that provides high performance, high availability, and easy scalability. To many, it is the leader in the NoSQL space. MongoDB Atlas was launched in June of 2016 and provides MongoDB as a database-as-a-service DBaaS. Atlas provides all of the features...

ShadyShader: Crashing Apple Devices with a Single Click

Introduction A while ago, we discovered an interesting vulnerability in the GPU’s drivers of iPhones, iPads, and macOS computers with M-series chips. Dubbed ShadyShader, this flaw allows a specially crafted shader program to overwhelm Apple’s GPU, causing repeated freezes that ultimately lead to ...

Recent Vulnerabilities in Popular Applications Blocked by Imperva

Multiple vulnerabilities in popular and widespread applications have been disclosed recently, tracked as CVE-2023-36845, CVE-2023-40044, CVE-2023-42793, CVE-2023-29357, and CVE-2023-22515. These vulnerabilities, which affect several products and can be exploited to allow arbitrary code execution,...

Imperva Customers are protected from Atlassian Confluence CVE-2022-26134

This is an evolving storyline. Last update: June 4, 2022. On June 2, 2022, Atlassian published a security advisory regarding a CVE for versions of Confluence Server and Data Center applications greater than 1.3.0. The advisory details a critical severity unauthenticated remote code execution...

Oracle Auditing Part 1: Standard Auditing

This is the first of three articles on the topic of Oracle auditing. It is relevant to Oracle 10g, 11g, and 12c, although Unified Auditing in 12c makes some of this content irrelevant if you choose to use Pure Unified Auditing. Unified Auditing will be covered in the third part of this series...

A Tip For Easy SQL-based Big Data Analysis: Use a Temporary Dataset

Every once in a while we’re required to analyze big data on a wide time range. Here’s a common example: “Can you analyze what happened during 2020? And don’t forget to compare it to 2019”. Questions like this are hard to answer in the big data world: Queries may take a long time to process - and...

How Our Threat Analytics Multi-Region Data Lake on AWS Stores More, Slashes Costs

Data is the lifeblood of digital businesses, and a key competitive advantage. The question is: how can you store your data cost-efficiently, access it quickly, while abiding by privacy laws? At Imperva, we wanted to store our data for long-term access. Databases would’ve cost too much in disk and...

How to use DSF Collections & Index Patterns – A Tutorial

In conventional terminology, Imperva Data Security Fabric DSF is a database system, replete with a GUI interface for aggregation pipeline building, workflow orchestration, extensible scripting Playbooks, and self-service data discovery Kibana-based Discover. Imperva DSF is purpose-built for data...

Web Application Firewalls Instrumental in Digital-First Banking

Like many industries, the banking and insurance sectors have shifted their resources to be digital-first, all the more so since the start of the global pandemic. For today’s customers, who increasingly begin their banking experiences using digital channels, whether online or mobile, a digital-fir...

Despite COVID-19 pandemic, Imperva reports number of vulnerabilities decreased in 2020

Imperva’s report, The State of Vulnerabilities in 2020 has revealed that unlike in previous years, researchers observed a fall in the number of vulnerabilities last year, even as businesses were compelled to accelerate digital transformation processes due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Vulnerabilities...

How to Protect AWS API Gateway with SecureSphere WAF

Serverless architectures are becoming more and more popular, and Amazon’s API Gateway service is a key factor in many serverless deployments on AWS. Currently API Gateway only supports a public CloudFront endpoint, and securing the API Gateway with high-end WAF protection may seem like a difficul...

Compliance When Migrating to the Cloud: SQL Server Running on Azure vs. On- Premise

In the age of the data era, where data storage is increasing at an exponential rate and access to information is getting easier and faster, data security is a major concern. There are many cases where we can’t prevent people from accessing data, but we can track and investigate suspicious...

5 Ways Your Software Supply Chain is Out to Get You, Part 1: Vendor Compromise

Is 2021 the year of the software supply chain attack? In late 2020, an incredible story broke: US government agencies, including Commerce, Treasury, and Homeland Security, had been severely compromised through a malicious backdoor surreptitiously implanted into network management software supplie...

Seven Must-Dos to Secure MySQL 8.0

Most database breaches are blamed on insiders such as employees who are either malicious or whose security has been compromised. In fact, most of these breaches are actually caused by poor security configuration and privilege abuse. Every new database version brings security upgrades. Use them...

Anatomy of a Security Super Bowl Dynasty, Part 3: Special Teams and Coaching

Imperva Directors of Technology in the Office of the CTO, Brian Anderson and Craig Burlingame, recently conducted an informal education session titled, Creating a Security Super Bowl Dynasty. In this presentation, they illustrated the ways American football teams create consistent, sustainable...

5 Ways Your Software Supply Chain is Out to Get You, Part 3: Exploit Open Source Libraries

In previous posts, we explained how two kinds of supply chain attack methods, Vendor Compromise and Exploit Third Party Applications, are threatening software supply chains, transferring an extraordinary amount of risk downstream to the organizations and users that trust and depend on them. In th...

Attackers Are Quick to Exploit vBulletin’s Latest 0-day Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Imperva’s Cloud WAF has identified instances of a new 0-day vulnerability being exploited within a matter of hours of the exploit being published. On Monday 23rd September 2019, an exploit was published for a vulnerability found within vBulletin versions 5.0.0 to 5.5.4, allowing malicious attacke...

CVE-2023-50164: A Critical Vulnerability in Apache Struts

On December 7, 2023, Apache released a security advisory regarding CVE-2023-50164, a critical vulnerability in Apache Struts with CVSS score 9.8. Versions from 2.5.0 to 2.5.32 and 6.0.0 to 6.3.0 were affected. Apache Struts is a popular, free, open-source framework that is used in the creation of...

Protecting Against HTTP/2 Rapid Reset: CVE-2023-44487

Today, Google disclosed a zero-day vulnerability in the HTTP/2 protocol. Imperva collaborated proactively with Google to gain advanced insights into this vulnerability. After a comprehensive inspection of this vulnerability by Imperva’s Product Development and Threat Research teams, we can confir...

Hundreds of Vulnerable Docker Hosts Exploited by Cryptocurrency Miners

Docker is a technology that allows you to perform operating system level virtualization. An incredible number of companies and production hosts are running Docker to develop, deploy and run applications inside containers. You can interact with Docker via the terminal and also via remote API. The...

Why You’re Not Making the Leap from Compliance to a Database Security Strategy

Gartner strongly recommends that the concept of “big data strategy” should be replaced with “making big data part of our everyday strategy.” Technology has created a database activity explosion for most enterprises and made traditional agent-based data logging, monitoring, and auditing far too...

Apache Commons Text vulnerability CVE-2022-42889

Updated Oct. 19, 2022 CVE-2022-42889 was recently added to the NVD catalog, with a critical score of 9.8. This vulnerability allows remote code execution RCE in Apache Commons Text. It affects version numbers 1.5-1.9, and an upgrade to Apache Commons Text 1.10.0 disables the problem by default...

Update: CVE-2024-4577 quickly weaponized to distribute “TellYouThePass” Ransomware

Introduction Recently, Imperva Threat Research reported on attacker activity leveraging the new PHP vulnerability, CVE-2024-4577. From as early as June 8th, we have detected attacker activity leveraging this vulnerability to deliver malware, which we have now identified to be a part of the...

Python and Go Top the Chart of 2019’s Most Popular Hacking Tools

Imperva Cloud WAF protects over a hundred thousand websites globally and observes around a billion of attacks daily. We detect thousands of hacking tools on a daily basis and employ various measures to stop malicious requests. Here are the most dangerous tools and attacks we discover while...

2021 in Review, Part 3: 5 Things Security Professionals Were Discussing this Year

Today, everyone is talking about CVE-2021-44228, and with good reason. But before that, here were five of the issues that dominated virtual “water cooler talk” in 2021: 5. Data security in the cloud Champion heavyweight boxer Mike Tyson said, “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the...

Continuing to Stay Ahead of CVE-2021-44228: Addressing Your Top Questions

Since it was disclosed on Friday, December 11, I have spoken with many customers about CVE-2021-44228 and the ways Imperva is working to ensure that they are protected. Countless others have contacted us with questions about ways to mitigate the impact from the Log4j vulnerability. In the spirit ...

2021 in Review, Part 1: 5 Cybersecurity Topics that Made News

Its been another chaotic year in cybersecurity, as protecting web applications and stopping sensitive data breaches remain top-of-mind issues and continue to generate headline news. As 2021 comes to a close, cybersecurity and all the industries it serves is dealing with an unprecedented zero-day...

How to Deploy a Graylog SIEM Server in AWS and Integrate with Imperva Cloud WAF

Security Information and Event Management SIEM products provide real-time analysis of security alerts generated by security solutions such as Imperva Cloud Web Application Firewall WAF. Many organizations implement a SIEM solution to bring visibility of all security events from various solutions...

Azure SQL Database Security: 9 Features You Should Know

Databases are where organizations hold their “crown jewels” – their data. If you’re running or looking to run SQL on Azure, Azure provides security for the physical, logical, and data layers of services. Basic Azure SQL database security can be enabled using a variety of native security features...

2021 KuppingerCole Leadership Compass names Imperva an overall leader for Database and Big Data Security

It is my pleasure to report that in their 2021 overview of the market for Database and Big Data Security solutions, leading technology analyst KuppingerCole has identified Imperva as an Overall Leader for the first time. Imperva scored five out of five for product security, functionality,...

Install Apache Zeppelin and connect it to AWS Athena for data exploration, visualization and collaboration

Introduction Apache Zeppelin is a Web-based, open source, notebook system that enables data-driven, interactive data analytics and collaborative documents with SQL. At Imperva Research Group we use it on a daily basis to query data from the Threat Research Data Lake using AWS Athena query engine...

Introducing Imperva Cloud Data Security

We are excited to announce that our latest data security innovation is now available worldwide! Made for the cloud, Imperva Cloud Data Security CDS builds on our industry-leading application and data security solutions, providing an industry-first, complete cloud data SaaS security solution that...

UK’s Largest Mobile Carrier Relies on AWS and Imperva FlexProtect for Web Delivery and 360-Degree Application Protection

In today’s highly-competitive telecommunications market, the website is integral to successful and fast customer service. Downtime due to intrusion, data breach, or DDoS attack is intolerable. It’s why ten of the largest global telecommunications providers have chosen Imperva, including BT mobile...

Python’s Poisoned Package: Another ‘Blank Grabber’ Malware in PyPI

Python Package Index PyPI is a platform that offers an extensive range of packages to simplify and enhance the development process. Malicious actors regularly upload phishing packages in the platform’s repository aimed at delivering malware to steal the victims information, or more frequently, to...

New MOVEit vulnerability CVE-2023-36934 blocked by Imperva

On July 5, Progress Software released a security advisory for a new critical vulnerability in the MOVEit Transfer software, CVE-2023-36934. With a critical score of 9.1, this bug is a SQL injection vulnerability in the MOVEit Transfer web application with the potential to allow unauthorized acces...

Imperva uncovers new Indicators of Compromise for FBI and CISA-flagged AndroxGh0st botnet

On January 16, a joint alert from FBI and CISA warned about a concerning development: the emergence of a botnet driven by AndroxGh0st malware targeting vulnerable applications and web servers. AndroxGh0st is a Python-based malware, first seen in late 2022, designed to target Laravel .env files an...

RDaaS Security: How to Apply Database Audit and Monitoring Controls

As you move databases to cloud database platforms, data security and compliance requirements move along with it. This article explains how you can apply database audit and monitoring controls when migrating your database to cloud services, including the following: Introduction to RDaaS Benefits o...

Imperva Security Update

Hi everyone, Please find below a detailed update on the security incident from Kunal Anand, our Chief Technology Officer. From the moment we discovered this incident, we established and have held ourselves to the following key principles: To do the right thing for all of our constituents, To be...

How RASP Protects Apache Servers from zero-day Path Traversal Attacks (CVE-2021-41773)

In late September of 2021, a path traversal and file disclosure vulnerability was disclosed and reported as CVE-2021-41773 in Apache HTTP Server version 2.4.29. Both Windows and Linux servers are affected. This vulnerability, which occurs via remote code execution RCE, exposes a path traversal bu...

Imperva Makes Major Expansion in Application Security

When Imperva announced in 2018 it would acquire the application security solution provider Prevoty, a company I co-founded with Julien Bellanger, I knew it would be a win-win for our industry. Prevoty’s flagship product, Autonomous Application Protection, is the most mature, market-tested runtime...

2021 in Review, Part 4: 5 Cybersecurity Topics to Watch in 2022

One of the core principles of cybersecurity is not letting things “slip through the cracks”. An effective security posture depends on visibility. The more visibility you have into the environments where your data is, the more successful you will be in applying your organization’s security protoco...

How We’re Protecting Customers & Staying Ahead of CVE-2021-44228

CVE-2021-44228 is a high profile vulnerability impacting multiple versions of a widely distributed Java software component, Apache Log4j 2. The specific vulnerability allows for unauthenticated remote code execution. For additional technical information, the team at LunaSec has an excellent...

The Struggle is Real

We’ve all heard the phrase, “We live in a male dominated world.” This phrase is most often delivered with a negative connotation when someone perceives that they’re getting an unfair chance, at the mercy of men. What if we could live in a world where everyone’s unique contributions were equally...

Securely Managing Entitlement of S3 Resources

Here we’ll talk about securely managing entitlements of S3 resources including managing access control to S3 objects and utilizing audit logging to keep track of the usage of shared resources. Amazon’s AWS services allow for accounts to grant access to resources from other accounts on AWS. This...

The top 3 OWASP risks to the financial services sector in 2021 and how to mitigate them

The Open Web Application Security Project OWASP is a non-profit organization that helps security experts protect web applications from cyber attacks. OWASP counts 32,000 volunteers worldwide who perform security assessments and conduct research on cybersecurity threats about which the larger...

A Cybersecurity and Cloud Innovator – and a Great Partner

Imperva has long been a cybersecurity leader, recognized by the likes of Gartner and Forrester Research for the capabilities of our application and data security solutions. For more than 6,000 business customers, we are their champion in the daily fight to secure data and applications. To ensure...