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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...
We asked 170 cyber security pros about ransomware. Here’s what they had to say.
The first week of January, my daughter called to say she couldn’t get into her college website to make changes to her spring schedule. Assuming servers were probably struggling to keep up with increased traffic, I told her to keep trying. However, it soon became apparent what the issue was. An...
47-Day Certificates Are Coming: Five Things to Do Before They Arrive
Somewhere in your organization is a spreadsheet of certificate expiry dates, and someone who owns it. That is not a caricature. DigiCert's 2026 research with Omdia surveyed more than 400 senior IT leaders and found that 47% still rely on manual tracking methods such as spreadsheets, and only 34%...
Imperva Customers Protected Against StyleSmuggler (CVE-2026-75650) in Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source
TL;DR:CVE-2026-75650 , dubbed StyleSmuggler, is a critical vulnerability affecting Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source. The vulnerability allows an unauthenticated attacker to inject malicious PHP code into Magento’s template system and achieve remote code execution. Adobe assigned the...
Why Generative AI Needs a New Kind of Security
This is Post 2 of a four-part series: Post 1: Agentic AI Security: The Chatbot Era Is Over Post 3: The OWASP LLM Top 10 Was the Warm-Up: What Comes Next Post 4: OWASP LLM Top 10 2026: Every Move Points the Same Direction There is a moment every CISO is having right now, often without warning. A...
Imperva Detects and Mitigates Rejetto HFS Spray-and-Pray Ransomware/Trojan Campaign
On July 19th, Imperva Threat Research team detected a sudden surge in HTTP probes targeting Rejetto HTTP File Server HFS 2.x instances. What looked like routine internet noise quickly revealed itself as a coordinated attempt to exploit a critical unauthenticated server-side template injection...
Evaluating the Security Efficacy of Web Application Firewalls (WAFs)
Web Application Firewalls WAFs are now a staple in defending web-facing applications and APIs, acting as specialized filters to block malicious traffic before it ever reaches your systems. But simply deploying a WAF isn’t enough, the real challenge is knowing whether it works when it matters most...
Five Steps to Integrating a Data Repository Vulnerability Assessment Into A WAF–Driven Vulnerability Management Program
A vulnerability assessment is a systematic review of security weaknesses in an information system. It evaluates if the system is susceptible to any known vulnerabilities, assigns severity levels to those vulnerabilities, and recommends remediation or mitigation, if and whenever needed. There are...
Building on Your Existing DAM Instance is Smart Budget Planning
For organizations that use it, Imperva’s DAM Gateway is the workhorse of data auditing and security. Today, the explosion of data and data repositories that organizations need to manage - both on-premises and in cloud environments - requires a more flexible, higher-capacity technology platform to...
A Deep Dive into Database Attacks [Part I]: SQL Obfuscation
Today, data breaches are a threat to every organization. According to a report from Risk Based Security covering the first half of 2017, over 6 billion records were exposed through 2,227 publicly-disclosed data breaches. The number of exposed records is already higher than the previous all-time...
Database Security at Cloud Scale
The biggest challenge to data security is the sheer volume and pace of data growth. More so even than the shift from relational data to unstructured or the migration of data to the cloud. “Cloud scale” is usually used to refer to technical items like data center size and operations or networks an...
GDPR Requirements: Get Started with Classifier
The GDPR requires that organizations exhibit commitment to individuals’ data privacy by implementing a data protection by design and by default approach, meaning organizations need to build privacy and protection into their products, services, and applications. GDPR also mandates that organizatio...
Data Protection and the GDPR Job Market
The May 2018 deadline for full GDPR compliance will be upon us all before we know it. The GDPR will affect all organizations—regardless of their location—that handle personal data coming out of the EU. Article 37 of the GDPR requires organizations to retain a data protection officer DPO if, among...
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 ...
Harvest Now, Decrypt Later: The Attack You Defend Against by Doing Nothing
Somewhere, an attacker is recording your encrypted traffic. Not breaking it. Recording it. The bet is patient and simple: store ciphertext today, wait for quantum computers to mature, decrypt at leisure. The industry calls it harvest now, decrypt later HNDL, and it is the rare security threat wit...
The OWASP LLM Top 10 Was the Warm-Up: What Comes Next
This is Post 3 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 4: OWASP LLM Top 10 2026: Every Move Points the Same Direction When the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications arrived, it did the industr...
Google Australia Customers Now Benefit From Imperva Cloud-Native WAAP Security
Many Australian businesses have moved their applications and data to cloud-native architectures for agility, scalability, and sovereignty. However, this move extends their attack surface beyond their typical security boundaries. As evidenced by the Thales 2026 Data Threat Report, attackers...
Your Redis Server Looks Fine. That’s the Problem.
Introduction There’s an automated attack circulating right now that breaks into unprotected Redis servers, takes over the underlying machine, and then carefully puts everything back the way it found it. It restores the database filename. It deletes the tools it used. It detaches from the...
Chain Reaction: Attack Campaign Activity in the Aftermath of React Server Components Vulnerability
Introduction and Vulnerability Overview Earlier this month, Imperva published an initial advisory outlining how our customers were protected against the newly disclosed React2Shell vulnerability impacting React Server Components RSC. That post focused on the essentials: a critical flaw arising fr...
CVE-2025-61882: Imperva Customers Protected Against Critical Oracle EBS Zero-Day RCE
TL;DR: In early October 2025, Oracle released an emergency security alert addressing CVE-2025-61882, a high-severity unauthenticated remote code execution RCE vulnerability in the Concurrent Processing / BI Publisher Integration component of Oracle E-Business Suite EBS versions 12.2.3 through...
Bridging the Security Knowledge Gap: Introducing AI ExplAIn for Imperva Cloud WAF
The challenge of maintaining robust web application security often comes down to communication. Security teams frequently spend countless hours explaining WAF blocking decisions to application developers who may lack security expertise. This communication gap not only creates friction between tea...
Breaking the Chain of Data Access: The Importance of Separating Human and Application Users
Data, the lifeblood of any organization, relies on the database as its beating heart. As a result, businesses invest heavily in designing and monitoring all access to it. In traditional literature, there are two types of users: administrative users, who manage the entire lifecycle of a database...
Advanced Persistent Threat Groups Behind DDoS Attacks on Danish Hospitals
On Sunday 26 February the websites of several Danish hospitals were taken offline after being hit by Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attacks claimed by a group calling themselves ‘Anonymous Sudan’. According to reports on Twitter patient care was unaffected by the attacks and the sites were ba...
“Oops, I insecurely coded again!”
The call is coming from inside the house It’s no secret that companies need to be vigilant about application security. However, frequently the source of application vulnerabilities may come as a surprise to security teams. While zero-day exploits are a principal focus of vulnerability mitigation...
3 Steps to Putting a Modern Database Security Solution into Practice
As a Senior Security Solution Engineer, experience has shown me that there are no magic bullets when it comes to stopping data breaches. They are going to happen. What makes a data security solution most effective is the capacity to perform the reconnaissance activities necessary to identify...
5 Myths About Interning in Cybersecurity
Dear future interns and intern employers, Everyone says, “do what you love”; but when the world is your oyster, where do you start? We are Arianna De Leon and Kaylin Hiatt and last summer we started our careers as marketing interns at Imperva. We come from very different backgrounds and had very...
Imperva Snapshot™ Scan: What You Can Find in the Report
Imperva Snapshot is a free AWS RDS security assessment tool. You can use this tool to gain in-depth visibility into your data and get a deep understanding about what data resides in your RDS and where your RDS database security gaps are. Acquiring this intelligence is a key element and critical...
DDoS attacks on VoIP and the urgent need for DDoS protection
VoIP companies have recently been the target of a series of ransom Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attacks around the globe with UK-based VoIP providers including VoIP Unlimited, and Quebec-based company VoIP.ms being hit by aggressive and sustained attacks destabilizing their infrastructure a...
10 Phishing Stats That’ll Make Your C-Suite Think
Wanting to run a phishing simulation is one thing, but persuading colleagues of the importance of doing so is another. You need to keep your organization safe, not just satisfy basic compliance requirements. You need to improve security awareness and colleague behaviors, throughout your...
New Imperva Java SDK: Greasing The Wheels for Active Directory Coding Projects
words and research by Gabriel Beyo. According to StackOverflow’s 2018 Developer Survey, Java remains one of the world’s most popular coding languages, universally liked for its versatility and ease of adoption. Even so, working under the pressures developers often do, a bit of help always goes a...
Women in Tech and Career Spotlight: Shiri Margel
This month we’ll be closing out our series featuring women in tech at Imperva. While I work closely with many of the women we’ve spotlighted, I’ve found learning more about their backgrounds so interesting—I hope you have too! Continuing in the series, I spoke with Shiri Margel, team lead in the...
3 Steps to Protecting Sensitive Data
Cyber criminals, compromised insiders, malicious users, hacktivists. It seems like everyone is getting in on the threat game. In fact, despite efforts to prevent them, last year the U.S. experienced a 40% increase in data breaches according to a report by the Identity Theft Resource Center and...
’Tis the Season to Be Cyber-Wary: How Thales Protects Against Account Takeover During Peak Shopping Season
The holiday shopping season is the busiest time of year for online retailers, and increasingly the most dangerous. As traffic surges and customers rush to place orders, cybercriminals use the distraction and volume to blend in. Account Takeover ATO attacks spike sharply in November and December,...
CVE-2025-62725: From “docker compose ps” to System Compromise
Docker Compose powers millions of workflows, from CI/CD runners and local development stacks to cloud workspaces and enterprise build pipelines. It’s trusted by developers as the friendly layer above Docker Engine that turns a few YAML lines into a running application. In early October 2025, whil...
Redefining Application Security: Imperva’s Vision for the Future
It’s no secret that web applications have undergone a significant transformation over the past few years. The widespread adoption of containerization, serverless computing, low-code development, APIs, and microservices has redefined how applications are built, deployed, and scaled. According to...
First Things First: Know and Prioritize Your Risk in Data Security
Fortify your risk posture by shifting focus from network security to data-centric security for more robust cyber defense. Cyberattacks are one of the most onerous threats faced by businesses today. Not only is cybercrime skyrocketing in volume, it is also increasing in AI/ML-powered sophisticatio...
Enhancing Security and Compliance in the Energy Sector: Imperva’s Cipher Suite Support
In the energy and utility sector, safeguarding data and ensuring compliance with regulatory standards is paramount. With the increasing digitalization of operations, from smart grids to IoT-enabled devices, the need for robust encryption methods to protect sensitive information has never been...
Do Any HTTP Clients Not Support SNI?
In this blog post, we’ll share the results of an internal research project we conducted on our CDN customers focused on websites that are getting non-Server Name Indication SNI traffic. The goal of our research was to answer the following questions: How much non-SNI traffic is seen? What is the...
The Dark Side of Web Development: Why You Should Be Prioritizing Shadow Code
In the fast-paced world of web development, staying ahead of the curve is paramount, as developers are frequently under pressure to deliver products and functionalities quickly and efficiently. To meet accelerated timelines, they often leverage third-party scripts and open-source libraries,...
Imperva is an Overall Leader in the 2023 KuppingerCole Leadership Compass Data Security Platforms Report
Imperva is a leader in every category – Market, Innovation, and Product Imperva, Inc., @Imperva the cybersecurity leader that protects critical applications, APIs, and data, anywhere at scale, is an Overall Leader in the 2023 KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for Data Security Platforms. Previousl...
How to ‘Win’ a Red Team Exercise
What is a red team exercise? Organizations that conduct red team exercises use penetration testing tactics to assess vulnerabilities and discover weak points in their cybersecurity preparation. Usually, this involves two teams - one red the protagonists and one blue the incident responders who mu...
Three Reasons Why Unification Drives Modern Data Security Strategy
Today, the necessities of business innovation compel most organizations to have several teams with diverse priorities managing dozens of data sources, all with different structures. This makes it impossible to secure complete data repositories successfully using traditional methods. This post wil...
ShadowAI-Watch: Bringing AI Agent Activity Out of the Shadows
AI agents are rapidly becoming part of everyday development. They operate inside terminals, IDEs, and internal workflows, helping users write code, troubleshoot problems, and automate repetitive tasks. But their capabilities can extend far beyond what users see in the chat interface or terminal...
Why AI Bot Protection and Control Are Essential for Application Security
AI-driven automation is no longer emerging. It is already integrated and accepted as internet traffic. From AI assistants and crawlers to enterprise automation tools, websites are now routinely accessed by non-human actors operating at scale. Vulnerabilities or weaknesses in your application...
API Security for AI Agents: Why Protection Has Never Been More Important.
For years, a lot of risky APIs survived simply because they were hard to find. They weren’t documented. Only a handful of engineers knew the endpoints. And if an attacker wanted to abuse them, they had to spend real time reverse‑engineering traffic and guessing how things worked. That “security b...
Navigating the New Era of AI Traffic: How to Identify and Block AI Scrapers
In the not-so-distant past, webmasters faced challenges from bots like Google's search spiders, which diligently scanned websites to index content and provide the best search results for users. Fast forward to today, and we are witnessing a new breed of bot: Large Language Models LLMs like ChatGP...
Deploy API Security On-Premises with New Imperva API Security Anywhere Self-Managed Option
API Security Anywhere Self-Managed Option Imperva continues to deliver solutions that help customers protect their applications and APIs, whether in the Cloud, on-premises, or in a hybrid environment. Imperva API Security includes a SaaS-based and an on-premises solution, both managed in the...
New Mirai Botnet Variants Observed: How to Identify a Mirai-Style DDoS Attack
The Mirai Internet of Things IoT botnet, notorious for targeting connected household devices like cameras, alarm systems, and personal routers, continues evolving and poses significant cybersecurity threats. It has a history of executing massive DDoS attacks, including a major incident that...