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...

Conversations on Securing Microservices, API Gateways and Containers

Last month, I met James name changed while at AWS Summit in London. As I was managing Imperva's booth, he walked over to me with a query about what we do. A conversation ensued and James described his company for me. They were into financial-legal intermediation between underwriters, insurance...

Preventing Bot Attacks and Online Fraud on APIs

The rapid proliferation of Application Programming Interfaces APIs is spearheading digital transformation, leading to explosive growth in adoption of APIs in recent years. In fact, it’s hard to think of any software that doesn’t use or is in itself, an API. By supporting swift development and...

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...

How to leverage accountability to ensure sustainable enterprise data security

As post-pandemic economic recovery continues to drive rapid acceleration in digital transformation, documented data breaches and service disruptions caused by cybercriminal activity have become an unwelcome part of our daily news feed. In spite of the regulations and compliance requirements that...

Infographic: What Are Bad Bots Doing?

By now, anyone with even a passing interest in how the Web functions has heard of bots. Most people understand that there are good and bad bots. Legitimate bots like Googlebot, an application used by Google to crawl the Internet and index it for search, and others like it represent tremendous...

Gaining Insights Is Fundamental for API Security

As enterprises continue their digital transformation journey in this Post-COVID era, applications are the engine that drives their business growth. Whether it’s a digital-first enterprise or one that is accelerating its digital transformation initiatives, APIs are not only opening up systems so...

Bad Bot Traffic Breaks Records in 2020

Bad bots have long been a major illness plaguing the internet. As internet traffic reached new heights throughout the global pandemic, unfortunately so did bot traffic. In 2020, 40.8 percent of internet traffic wasn’t human, and 25.6 percent originated from bad bots. What have these bad bots been...

Bad Bot Traffic on Healthcare Websites Rises 372% As Vaccines Become Available Globally

Nations around the world are racing to acquire COVID-19 vaccines and assemble digital infrastructure and web applications to enable appointment booking. As they do this, Imperva Research Labs has monitored a staggering 372% increase in bad bot traffic on healthcare websites globally since Septemb...

Concern over Coronavirus Leading to Global Spread of Fake Pharmacy Spam

High levels of concern around the Coronavirus are currently being used to increase the online popularity of spam campaigns designed to spread fake news and drive unsuspecting users to dubious online drug stores. Given the level of anxiety that currently exists globally around the spread of the...

Imperva RASP Now Supports .NET Core Apps for Security by Default

We at Imperva are proud to announce that we now support the .NET Core development platform, securing apps written in .NET Core with our industry-leading RASP solution. Support for .NET Core expands our market-leading, full-stack application security solution to apps at the heart of digital...

Taking Stock: The Internet of Things, and Machine Learning Algorithms at War

It’s in the news every day; hackers targeting banks, hospitals, or, as we’ve come to fear the most, elections. Suffice to say then that cybersecurity has, in the last few years, gone from a relatively obscure industry – let's qualify that: not in the sense of importance, but rather how folks have...

The Data Breach ‘Kill Chain’: Early Detection is Key

Today, organizations rely heavily on data, with a big portion of that data made up of sensitive information. As organizations become the custodians of more and more sensitive information, the frequency of data breaches increases accordingly. In some cases, the origin of a data breach is outside o...

A Leader for Four Consecutive Years in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for WAFs

Gartner has published their 2017 Magic Quadrant for Web Application Firewalls WAF and Imperva has again been named a WAF leader—now for four consecutive years. Attacks remain same, but infrastructure is changing According to 2017 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, web app attacks remain t...

Imperva Continues to Innovate With New Features for Online Fraud Prevention

Last year, Imperva embarked on a mission to help organizations combat the growing threat of digital fraud. We introduced a new solution and a range of innovative features to help detect and prevent online fraud at its earliest stages. Imperva Online Fraud Prevention stops fraud ranging from...

Why Attackers Target the Financial Services Industry

This is Part 1 of a new monthly series from Imperva Threat Research exploring attackers’ motivations to target specific industries. Stay tuned for next months’ exploration of the healthcare industry! Key Takeaways Financial services sites are the most targeted , and it’s important to stay ahead o...

Is It Time to Consider Replacing Your CDN?

Content delivery networks CDNs are the pipelines of the Internet. Working behind the scenes, they are reshaping how information is consumed online, accelerating web traffic, enhancing user experience, and providing every website with the ability to truly go global. As you may imagine, any...

Why Data Security and Privacy in the digital age are crucial

Privacy is considered a basic human right but, with so much of our personal data now ‘out there’ in cyberspace, how private can it really be? Data is everywhere, and with rising internet usage, an increase in cloud technologies, and our growing reliance on IoT devices, it continues to grow...

New Imperva Framework: Accelerating the development of large scale solutions with “Stepping”

Handling large amounts of data at scale is a common task in the high-tech industry nowadays. To address this challenge many frameworks have been developed and made publicly available such as distributed messaging queues, distributed databases, lightweight protocols and caching servers, among...

NIST Recognizes RASP as Critical to Lowering Risk

The United States Congress ratified the Cybersecurity Framework set forth by the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST in 2014 to standardize the practices and controls that mitigate constantly evolving cyberthreats. The framework has been adopted by federal and local government...

COVID-19 affects everyone: we’re here to help.

A message from our Chief Executive Officer, Pam Murphy: All of us at Imperva wish you good health and safety as the coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak continues to unfold. As we respond to the ongoing crisis, we have established the following core principles to keep us focused on what's important:...

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...

Mitigate then Investigate: Watch a Live DDoS Attack

Recently Andy Shoemaker, founder of NimbusDDOS, and our own David Elmaleh shared their knowledge about DDoS attacks and what it means to have industry-best protection capabilities including fast time to mitigation. They also offered insights into the critical investigation activities that must...

From E-Commerce to Enterprise Employee: How I Overcame my Fears and Doubts

By Efrat Silberhaft One year ago, I was working as the sole designer in a small e-commerce startup. When the company shut down, I had to start looking for a new job. I decided to leave the startup world. What I didn't know is that my next step would turn out to be in a different field —...

How to Tune Your Database Security to Protect Big Data

As digital information and data continues to accumulate worldwide, new big data solutions grow more and more popular. The introduction of IoT into our lifestyle, which turns appliances into smart data logging machines, along with organizations tracking behaviors for data science and research...

Ransomware Attacks on MySQL and MongoDB

Ransomware is arguably one of the most vicious types of attack cyber security experts are dealing with today. The impact ransomware attacks can have on an organization is huge and costly. A ransomware payment alone does not reflect the total expense of an attack—the more significant costs come fr...

Beware! A threat actor could steal the titles of your private (and draft) WordPress posts with this new vulnerability!

As of today, almost a billion sites have been built using WordPress, powering businesses and organizations of all sizes. That makes any newly discovered vulnerability especially concerning—like the one recently found and reported by Imperva researchers, which could affect any WordPress site. In...

Imperva defends customers against CVE-2024-22024 in Ivanti products

Ivanti recently published an urgent warning about an authentication bypass in Ivanti Connect Secure, Ivanti Policy Secure, and ZTA gateways, tracked as CVE-2024-22024. The bug, which carries a severity score of 8.3, was discovered during an internal review. Since its announcement on February 8,...

Top 8 Database Security Best Practices

There is a large body of knowledge on what activities are required in order to secure databases and in order to comply with regulations and requirements. We’ve gathered the top 8 best practices for ensuring database security. Databases are arguably the most important and, unfortunately, also the...

Benefits of Building a Multi-prong Mousetrap for WAF Policies with ML

The reason behind buying a market-leading Web Application Firewall WAF is to protect your website and web applications from malicious attacks, plus complying with industry or regional data and privacy standards. In addition to the typical OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities, WAFs need to address a litan...

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...

Cloud Migration Fundamentals: Overcoming Barriers to App Security [Infographic]

As more organizations move to the cloud, the line of responsibility in securing applications can become rather blurred. The concept of control has historically rested in physical location and ownership. With the move to the cloud, however, the idea of security by proxy is changing and so should o...

Critical Actions to Finalize Your GDPR Compliance Program

Starting May 25, 2018, enforcement begins for the new EU General Data Protection Regulation GDPR and its heightened principles and requirements regarding data privacy, data processing, and data security. The newly revised regulation applies to organizations doing business in the European Union or...

Top Insider Threat Concern? Careless Users. [Survey]

It’s been a busy year thus far in the cybercrime world with the stakes seeming to grow higher every month. Just last month, insider threats were making headlines with a news report that Reality Winner, a contractor for the National Security Association with a top-level security clearance, leaked...

On-Premises API Security on Kubernetes: What It Actually Looks Like in Practice

Let’s Talk About Where Your APIs Actually Run Quick answer: On-premises API security keeps API discovery, detection, and enforcement inside your own perimeter instead of a third-party cloud—the model regulated industries need. Deploying it natively on Kubernetes sidecar sensors → a discovery...

API Security and The Silent Menace of Unknown APIs

The digital application landscape is evolving rapidly, with APIs as the backbone of modern software development. However, amidst all this innovation lies a silent menace: the prevalence of unknown APIs. These APIs, often lurking beyond sanctioned channels, pose significant security risks to...

How to Secure All Your APIs Through Multiple Deployment Options

Imperva has invested in strengthening our API Security offering to meet the needs of customers since the acquisition of CloudVector in 2021. Since then, the product’s capabilities have expanded, positioning it as a leader in the growing API Security market. What makes Imperva API Security unique ...

ManageEngine Vulnerability CVE-2022-47966

Recently, Zoho ManageEngine released a security advisory for CVE-2022-47966, which allows for pre-authentication remote code execution in at least 24 ManageEngine products, including ADSelfService Plus and ServiceDesk Plus. This vulnerability stems from the products’ use of an outdated Apache...

Game Over: How to Stop DDoS Attacks on Online Gamers

You’re just about to take out a long-time rival, claim Victory Royale or round out a royal flush when your ping spikes or you’re DCed. Chances are you, or the game you’re playing, have been hit by a denial of service DoS attack. What’s the story? A recent report cited that of all cyber attacks...

How to Create a Simulated Phishing Attack Across Your Company

Email is one of the many weapons at the disposal of bad actors on the Internet, and your employees are in the firing line. Attackers try to hide behind a trusted entity, sometimes even masquerading as a known vendor or even as a representative of a group within your own organization, like HR or I...

Analysis of 100 Data Breaches: Part 2, What are the root causes of breaches?

As we discussed in Part 1 of this series, Imperva’s Security Labs continuously monitor cyber threat levels around the world and report on them. In the last post, we reported the breakdown of the specific types of data that get stolen and explained what organizations needed to do to mitigate the...

Holidays Are Coming – the State of Security for E-commerce in 2020

With the Coronavirus pandemic driving consumers online, a new report from Imperva reveals how this year’s holiday shopping season will present online retailers with a level of traffic - and cyber-attack threats - like they’ve never seen before. Among the many effects of COVID-19 has been a huge...

2019 Global DDoS Threat Landscape Report

Today Imperva Research Labs, made up of senior researchers and industry experts who have been delivering sound and valid advice for over 15 years, is releasing a brand new Global DDoS Threat Landscape Report. The report is a statistical analysis of 3,643 network layer DDoS attacks throughout 2019...

5 Key Factors to Consider When Comparing Cloud Security Solutions [Video]

Migrating to the cloud can be a challenge, and so can securing your platform once you’re there. It means having a security solution that is quick, adaptable and equipped to handle a wider breadth of attacks. Whether you’re in the market for a new security product, or you’re looking to switch, the...

Monitoring Data & Data Access to Support Ongoing GDPR Compliance – Part III: Tools

The new European Union EU-wide General Data Protection Regulation GDPR was signed into law in late April 2016, and the compliance deadline came into effect on May 25, 2018. The Regulation is expansive and covers a variety of subject areas, provisions, and actions in the form of documented Article...

Q2 2017 Global DDoS Threat Landscape Report

This week we released our latest Global DDoS Threat Landscape Report, a statistical analysis of more than 15,000 network and application layer DDoS attacks mitigated by Imperva Incapsula services during Q2 2017. This quarter, for the fifth one in a row, we saw a decrease in the number of network...

Navigating the API Security Landscape: Your Definitive API Security Buyer’s Guide for 2025

APIs power today’s digital economy—connecting customers, partners, and internal services at breakneck speed. But with that agility comes risk: in 2024 alone, API vulnerabilities cost organizations a staggering$2.5 billion in remediation, fines, and lost revenue. As APIs proliferate, traditional...

Five Key Takeaways from the 2024 Imperva Bad Bot Report

Bad bots continue to affect consumers and organizations across all sectors. For over eleven years, Imperva has been dedicated to helping organizations manage and mitigate the threat of bad bots. We’ve published the 2024 Imperva Bad Bot Report as part of our commitment to helping organizations...

Imperva Boosts Connectivity with New PoP in Manila

We are delighted to announce the addition of a new Imperva Point of Presence PoP in the Asia Pacific region with the opening of our new data center in Manila, Philippines. The new location brings our total number of PoPs in Asia to 15, significantly boosting our presence in the region and providi...

Lessons Learned from 100 Data Breaches: Part 1, What Specific Types of Data Get Stolen?

As part of Imperva’s Security Labs’ ongoing efforts to monitor and report on the current Application and Data Security Threat landscape, we studied and analyzed over 100 of the largest and best-known data breaches of the last decade. Download the full report, Lessons Learned From Analyzing 100 Da...