Adding Some Salt to Our Network – Part 1

Why configuration management system was a must for our network, and how we chose SaltStack When we planned and designed the network automation at Imperva Cloud, we split our automation systems into three different systems, where each of the systems has a different set of requirements: 1...

Encryption: Pros and Cons

The expression “when you are a hammer, everything is a nail” has a curious background. The concept belongs to a generalized law of the instrument which is a cognitive bias that occurs by being overly familiar with certain tools, and the likelihood of force-fitting problems to the tools at hand. A...

The Evolution of Cybercrime and What It Means for Data Security

Cybercrime is now an industry unto itself. And, just as any industry evolves, so does the cybercrime industry. This industry is built upon enterprise data. Granted, there is a ready underworld supply chain and market for vulnerabilities, attack kits, botnets, APTs, phishing-as-a-service,...

Critical Flaws in Base44 Exposed Sensitive Data and Allowed Account Takeovers

Our research uncovered multiple critical vulnerabilities in Base44, an AI-powered platform that lets you turn any idea into a fully functional custom app. These flaws ranged from an open redirect that leaked access tokens, to stored cross-site scripting XSS, insecure authentication design,...

New Secaucus Point of Presence Increases Resilience for Financial Services

We are thrilled to announce the opening of a new cutting-edge Point of Presence PoP in Secaucus, New Jersey, which adds resilience to our network infrastructure located in the Northeastern United States region. This PoP represents the first build using next generation technology designed to...

CVE-2023-29552: Abusing the SLP Protocol to Launch Massive DDoS Amplification Attacks

On April 25, 2023, researchers at Bitsight and Curesec jointly discovered a high-severity vulnerability — tracked as CVE-2023-29552 — in the Service Location Protocol SLP, a legacy Internet protocol. What is SLP protocol? Service Location Protocol SLP is a network protocol designed to simplify th...

The Anatomy of a Scalping Bot: NSB Was Copped!

In recent years, scalping bots have become a growing concern for online retailers. In this two-part blog series, we will analyze the inner workings of the Nike Shoe Bot NSB scalping bot, one of the most dangerous scalping bots around. We will take a closer look at the components of NSB, how we...

What Are Red Team Exercises and Why Are They Important?

Pick a side. It’s game time, and nothing is off the table. -- For most organizations, a true defense-in-depth strategy includes the proactive testing of company cyber defenses. A Red Team Exercise is designed to reveal vulnerabilities in a companys security through hands-on testing, uncovering...

Cloud Data Security is Now Available in AWS Marketplace

We’re pleased to announce that Imperva Cloud Data Security is now available in the Amazon Web Services Marketplace. Database security shouldn’t be hard, so Imperva has made it simple. Imperva Cloud Data Security CDS is a SaaS solution specifically designed to secure organizations’ data stored in...

Imperva’s Mobile Security App

How many apps do you currently have on your mobile device? Is this number a total across both your personal and professional devices? Did you know that between Android’s Google Play Store and Apple’s App Store, there are between 2.2 and 2.8 million apps available to download? Did you know that,...

SQL Server 2019 Security Tool Inadvertently Reveals Where Sensitive Data is Stored

The first step in protecting your data and ensuring your database is compliant with security benchmarks and privacy regulations such as SOX, PCI, HIPAA, and GDPR is to understand what sensitive information resides in that database. Microsoft’s SQL Server 2019 introduces a new tool SQL Data...

The Importance of the Customer’s Feedback in Product Design

We have learned over time that we develop products not for us the company, but for you, the customer, to help resolve your problems. But just resolving a customer's problem is not enough - the product should also be intuitive and easy to use. It’s clear that the best people to provide feedback...

The Gartner CISO Playbook: Leveraging Effective Control in the Cloud

For as long as we can remember, the concept of control has rested comfortably in physical location and ownership. It’s simple, if you could see something or you knew exactly where it was, it would be easier to assume that you’d have some measure of control over its security. With the move to the...

Clustering App Attacks with Machine Learning Part 1: A Walk Outside the Lab

A lot of research has been done on clustering attacks of different types using machine learning algorithms with high rates of success. Much of it from the comfort of a research lab, with specific datasets and no performance limitations. At Imperva, our research is done for the benefit of real...

Web Application Firewalls: The Definitive Primer

Firewalls have traditionally been focused on network layer traffic. As attacks have evolved, however, they have climbed the ladder of the Open Systems Interconnection OSI model. Web Application Firewalls WAFs have developed as a result, not only to track network traffic but also to understand...

Data Security Solutions for GDPR Compliance

Enforcement of the new EU General Data Protection Regulation GDPR adopted in 2016 starts on May 25, 2018. It requires all organizations that do any business in the EU or that collect or process personal data originating in the EU to comply with the regulation. Organizations that do not have a...

The Hidden Threat: How Sensitive Information Leakage Puts Your Business at Risk

You Don't Know What You Don't Know – And That's the Problem Picture this: Your development team has built a robust e-commerce platform. Your security team has implemented comprehensive protection measures. Your compliance team has checked all the boxes. Yet somewhere in your application stack, fu...

Imperva Protects Against Critical PHP Vulnerability CVE-2024-4577

In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, staying ahead of vulnerabilities is crucial for safeguarding sensitive information and maintaining the integrity of digital assets. Recently, a critical vulnerability– identified as CVE-2024-4577 with an initial CVSS score of 9.8 – was discovered i...

Imperva successfully defends against CVE-2024-25600 in WordPress Bricks Builder

A critical vulnerability in the Bricks Builder site builder for WordPress, identified as CVE-2024-25600, is currently under active exploitation, and poses a significant threat to over 25,000 sites. This flaw, with a CVSS score of 9.8, is an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability that...

Learning how MTU and MSS work is key to using DDoS Protection as a Service

Maximum Transmit Unit MTU and Maximum Segment Size MSS are two important terms you should be familiar with when venturing into the world of networking, especially if you are working with GRE and IPSEC tunnels. And if you are looking to use DDoS Protection as a service, you will need to know how M...

Smart Mesh Topology Boosts Capacity and Performance

Recently we introduced our advanced architectural topology for ensuring that traffic inspection and request logs are maintained within the region. This capability is especially beneficial to our customers who need to meet certain regional compliance requirements, as is the case in Australia and...

How Imperva Advanced Mesh Topology Keeps Canadian Data In-Country

The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act PIPEDA is a Canadian federal law that sets out how organizations can collect, use and disclose personal information in the course of commercial activity. While PIPEDA does not prohibit the transfer of personal information outside of...

Thrilled to Join Imperva

Today marks my first day at Imperva and I could not be more thrilled to join the outstanding team behind the impressive products that keep our customers safe every day. I’ve been asked to share why I joined Imperva, and candidly there are a number of reasons: First, timing: I think that security ...

The Five Most Startling Statistics from this 2019 Global Survey of 1,200 Cybersecurity Pros [Infographic]

For those of us in the security industry, the annual Cyberthreat Defense Report is a gold mine of insights into the minds of IT security professionals, including what threats keep them up at night, and how they plan to defend against them. The 6th edition of the report from the CyberEdge Group wa...

Read: How To Build Resilient Cloud Configuration Shields

Configurable systems have a high level of flexibility and are better adapted to most customer needs, but their management isn’t a trivial task in complex cloud deployments. The configuration management concept isn't new and originated in the United States Department of Defense in the 1950s as a...

A Deep Dive into Database Attacks [Part IV]: Delivery and Execution of Malicious Executables through SQL Commands (MySQL)

In a previous post we covered different techniques for execution of SQL and OS commands through Microsoft SQL server that can be used for delivering and executing malicious payloads on the target system. In this post we’ll discuss the same topic for MySQL database. Creating an executable directly...

Survey: APIs a Growing Cybersecurity Risk

Like a lot of people, your mobile phone number is probably easily accessible to anyone with a bit of searching. Imagine if someone could take this number and your name and gain access to your mobile phone account including billing, email address and phone IMSI. Or maybe someone hacked into one of...

GDPR Readiness – Calculate Your Return on Security Investment (ROSI)

What is the cost of a data breach? Assuming annual revenue of £30M, a single fine could be as much as a whopping £1.2M—the maximum 4%—when the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation GDPR becomes effective in May 2018. Compare that to a database control cost factor of £750K, the cost ...

Imperva Customers Protected Against CVE-2026-16723: Critical FastJson 1.x Zero-Day RCE

TL;DR:A critical remote code execution vulnerability has been disclosed in FastJson, a widely used JSON processing library for Java. The vulnerability, assigned CVE-2026-16723 with a CVSS score of 9.0 Critical, affects FastJson versions 1.2.68 through 1.2.83 under specific Spring Boot deployment...

How Cache Purge Helps Keep Your Website Content Fresh and Responsive

Content Delivery Networks CDNs accelerate web traffic across the internet through servers residing in strategic locations known as points of presence or PoPs across the globe. Each PoP has a number of caching servers, each of which contains a cached version of your website or application. By...

Top five insights from the 2021 CyberEdge Cyberthreat Defense Report

For the last eight years, the Cyberthreat Defense Report has been helping enterprise security professionals gauge their internal practices and security investments against their peers across multiple countries and industries. The report is based upon data from 1,200 qualified IT security...

Hybrid DDoS Protection is Like a Faulty Airbag

We know that some businesses are the target of constant DDoS attacks, while others face attacks less frequently. If your company falls on the side of less-frequent attacks or having never been attacked at all, you might be wondering, “does the threat still exist?” And “does it exist to the level ...

Imperva Launches New Data Center in Argentina

Imperva’s New Expansion We are happy to announce that Imperva has launched our new Buenos Aires data center. We’re thrilled to bring our leadership in cybersecurity plus enhanced performance and decreased latency to Argentina and the surrounding countries in the region. Our new data center is now...

Attack Analytics Now Include Actionable Insights

The number and sophistication of attacks on enterprise networks, applications, and APIs has increased as intruders gain technical acumen and advanced tool kits. Many attackers are now able to maintain and sustain determined efforts to steal data and disrupt business. With such a high number of...

Imperva Integration With AWS Security Hub: Expanding Customer Security Visibility

This article explains how Imperva application security integrates with AWS Security Hub to give customers better visibility and feedback on the security status of their AWS hosted applications. Securing AWS Applications Cost reduction, simplified operations, and other benefits are driving...

Headless Chrome: DevOps Love It, So Do Hackers, Here’s Why

Google Chrome is the most popular web browser and has been so for almost a decade. Each new version of Chrome brings new usability, security and performance features. This article focuses on the “headless mode” feature that Google released more than a year ago; and, since day one has become very...

Optimizing A Monitoring System: Three Methods for Effective Incident Management

Picture this: You’ve just returned from a well-deserved vacation and, upon opening up your security monitoring system you’re faced with the prospect of analyzing thousands of events. This isn’t an imaginary scenario, the security monitoring world actually monitoring in general is full of anomalie...

See If You’re GDPR-Ready With Our Last-Minute Checklist

Time’s just about run out to get all your ducks in a row for the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation GDPR going into effect on May 25, and we’ve put together a little refresher toolkit to help you dot your Is and cross your Ts. Whether you’re planning on sticking to the new GDPR guidelines or...

Hunting for Insider Threats: Using Activity Modeling to Detect Suspicious Database Commands and Access Patterns

The Widening Gap Data breaches by insiders are very challenging to catch. The gap between the rise of insider threats and speed of hunting them down is increasingly widening. According to 2017 Data Breach Investigation Report by Verizon, a great majority of insider and privileged-misuse breaches ...

Everything You Need To Know About The Latest Imperva Online Fraud Prevention Feature Release

It’s a new year and we have lots of fresh features for Imperva Online Fraud Prevention solution, which encompasses Advanced Bot Protection, Account Takeover Protection, and Client-Side Protection. We have been busy adding a host of new advanced fraud detection and prevention capabilities as well ...

Can Business Cybersecurity Protection Outlay Offset Cybercrime Insurance?

What is cybercrime insurance? Business cybersecurity protection cybercrime insurance safeguards organizations from any financial losses relating to damage to or loss of information from, networks and IT systems. This may include reputation loss, the cost of business interruption, infringement of...

Imperva to acquire CloudVector: Prioritizing API Protection for Modern Environments

I am excited to announce Imperva has entered into an agreement to acquire CloudVector to advance our mission to protect data and all paths to it. Together, we believe we can change what organizations expect from Web Application and API Protection solutions. There are multiple reasons APIs are at...

Achieving Product Platform mindset

Imperva has decided to gradually shift to a company-wide Platform mindset in which, instead of having a set of separate products and features, there is a set of capabilities and building blocks upon which the products and features are built. Until now, special Platform teams have developed Platfo...

Imperva Launches the Cyber Threat Index

Today, we are proud to announce the launch of the Cyber Threat Index, a new online information portal from the minds of our threat researchers at Imperva Research Labs. The current Cyber Threat Index is 776. This is categorized as High and is up 8 percent since December. But what is the Cyber...

Cloud Transformation – 2020 Trend #1

The Imperva team is closing out 2019 with a series on the cybersecurity trends we predict will shape the landscape in 2020. Last week, Imperva CTO Kunal Anand mined insights from our global customer base and our research team, Imperva Research Labs, to come up with his top five list of...

From Thousands of Security Alerts to a Handful of Insights

Understanding an attacker’s workflow and how Attack Analytics hunts them down In recent years we’ve seen a significant increase in the number and complexity of cyber-attacks. The accessibility of public tools and their automation capabilities, as well as distributed and anonymization features tha...

Cloud Security For The Healthcare Industry: A No-Brainer

The healthcare industry has become one of the likeliest to suffer cyber-attacks, and there’s little wonder why. Having the financial and personal information of scores of patients makes it a very appetizing target for attackers. Just over a year ago, the WannaCry ransomware attack wreaked havoc o...

How To Leverage Data Access Analytics for Effective Breach Detection

Detecting and preventing data breaches is a challenge for most, if not all, enterprises. In fact, according to a study released in 2017, 78% of all CISOs are concerned that data breaches go undetected, while only 19% admit they are effective at breach prevention. Simply put, breaches happen almos...

Survey: 27 Percent of IT professionals receive more than 1 million security alerts daily

Imagine trying to tackle over one million security alerts in a day. That number is so huge that it may sound like hyperbole, but this is exactly what many security teams face. Dealing with such a high volume of potential threats on a regular basis can quickly lead to alert fatigue. Sure, we expec...

Sonification of DDoS Attacks: Netflow Melodies and a Tomato Panic Button

A focus on innovation and creativity is ever-present in our work. One of the more prominent examples of that is our annual hackathon, which gives us a chance to fuel up on pizza and flex our coding muscles in a 24-hour programming marathon. Up until this year, these hackathons were limited to a...