Moving to AWS Lambda? Here’s what you need to know.

Serverless computing is transforming the way organizations build, ship, automate and scale applications. With no need to worry about infrastructure or who’s going to manage it, developers are free to focus on application development and innovation. The payoffs can be significant: Faster time to...

Lessons Learned from 100 Data Breaches: Part 4, Trends in Average Volumes of Stolen Records

Imperva research shows an increase in the volume of data stolen every year. In 2020, we started to see more and more breaches that exfiltrate records in billions. Based on the analysis of thousands of data breach details published on dbdigest, we made calculations on the raw data and found some...

The 2020 Cyberthreat Defense Report: Simplify Security with Unified Tools and Monitoring

The CyberEdge Group’s recently released 2020 Cyberthreat Defense Report CDR details findings based on a survey of 1200 security IT professionals from around the globe. Although multiple key takeaways emerged from analyzing their perceptions and insights, it’s worth digging a little further into o...

Building an Effective API Security Strategy: Easy If You Have the Right Tools

In their approach to application programming interface API security, organizations exposing web APIs must balance ease of access with control. Like the bank robber attacking banks because "that's where the money is," the use of APIs to provide access to applications and to business-critical data...

Sensitive Data Access: Where Traditional UBA Solutions Fall Short – Whiteboard Wednesday [Video]

In today’s global information economy an ever-increasing amount of sensitive data is collected, used, exchanged, analyzed, and retained. And with that comes an ever-increasing number of accidental or intentional data breaches. Identifying inappropriate access to data is paramount in stopping a...

CVE-2025-54068 Laravel Livewire Credential Theft Campaign: 6,000+ Applications Compromised

Introduction On May 24, 2026, Imperva observed exploitation attempts against Laravel Livewire applications, blocked by the Imperva Cloud WAF. What initially appeared to be unremarkable deserialization attack traffic turned out to be part of a large-scale credential theft operation exploiting...

Imperva Customers Protected Against CVE-2026-49975 (HTTP/2 Bomb) DoS

TL;DR: CVE-2026-49975, dubbed the “HTTP/2 Bomb,” is a critical remote Denial-of-Service DoS vulnerability affecting default HTTP/2 configurations of major web servers including NGINX, Apache HTTPD, Microsoft IIS, Envoy, and Cloudflare Pingora. Discovered by security firm Calif using OpenAI’s Code...

8 Ways to Avoid CISO Burnout

Times have changed In recent years the job of Chief Information Security Officer CISO has become more and more frenetic and involved. Already stretched CISOs have the added responsibilities of employee management in a time of a global pandemic, staff retention when priorities have changed and...

Four features your data-centric security strategy must provide

Each year, the number of data breaches grows by 30%, underscoring the need for organizations to make data-centric security a business priority. Following the big data movement around the beginning of the 21st century, technological innovations have enabled companies to manage, store and process...

Lessons Learned from 100 Data Breaches: Part 3, Securing Public Cloud Services

In the first two parts of this series, we gained insight into what specific types of data get stolen and what the root causes of breaches are, based on data breach information that Imperva’s Security Labs’ gathered, studied, and analyzed over the last ten years. You can get the full report, Lesso...

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...

The Account Takeover Threat: A By-the-Numbers Breakdown

Identity theft has come a long way in the age of technology. The more data is available online, the greater the threat. In this blog we will dive into the different characteristics and statistics of real world Account Takeover attacks as recorded and mitigated by Imperva’s Advanced Bot Protection...

Implementing Privacy in a Real World Application

Background Whenever Personally Identifiable Information PII is involved, it is wise to encrypt it from the get go. Strong encryption coupled with need-to-know access is key to gaining the trust of your customers and protecting their privacy. And it’s often required by ever-evolving data privacy...

Imperva Joins Global Cybersecurity Tech Accord

Imperva is dedicated to the global fight to keep people's data and applications safe from cybercriminals. What this means for our Imperva Threat Research team is that we spend a lot of time researching new cyber attacks, creating mitigations and writing powerful software. We believe that nothing...

Explainer Series: RDaaS Security and Managing Compliance Through Database Audit and Monitoring Controls

As organizations move to cloud database platforms they shouldn't forget that data security and compliance requirements remain an obligation. This article explains how you can apply database audit and monitoring controls using Imperva SecureSphere V13.2 when migrating to database as a service clou...

Top Five Trends IT Security Pros Need to Think About Going into 2018

It’s that time of the year when we look back at the tech trends of 2017 to provide us with a hint of things to come. Accordingly, let’s engage in our favorite end-of-year pastime: predictions about the coming year. Equipped with Imperva’s own research, interactions with our customers, and a wealt...

Build-Your-Own Data Masking. Yes or No?

A lot of organizations are taking great strides to protect their sensitive data with a multi-layered strategy—one that includes data masking. We’ve even seen many tackling this critical data security component in DIY fashion, often tasking one resource with developing and implementing scripts to...

How to Protect AWS ECS with SecureSphere WAF

Adoption of container technology is growing widely. More and more workloads are being transferred from traditional EC2 compute instances to container-based services. However, the need for securing the web traffic remains the same regardless of the elected platform. In this post, we’ll deep dive...

Top 5 GDPR Myths: Get the Facts

The General Data Protection Regulation GDPR has been garnering much attention since its formal adoption in April 2016. With the effective date of May 25, 2018 fast approaching, some popular myths have emerged surrounding the regulation. In this blog post, we’ll examine and debunk a few of the mos...

Imperva API Security Token & Authentication Risk Report: Nearly 40% of APIs Face Multiple Authentication Risks

Every year, the security industry publishes benchmark reports built more or less the same way: pick a handful of common vulnerabilities, measure how often they show up, publish the percentages, and move on. We just finished our second year running one of those reports — and the most important thi...

Dify: When Your AI Platform Becomes the Attack Surface

Executive Summary We identified a couple of vulnerabilities in AI automation platform Dify resulting in cross-tenant sensitive information disclosure and one-click account takeover. These findings reinforce the pattern we documented in our previous n8n blogpost: even though AI automation platform...

Introducing DataTrap: A Smarter, More Adaptive Honeypot Framework

Today, we're excited to release DataTrap, a powerful, extensible honeypot system built to simulate realistic web applications, IoT devices, and database behavior across HTTP, HTTPS, SSH, and database protocols e.g., MySQL. What sets DataTrap apart? It goes beyond static honeypots by combining...

CVE-2025-5777 Exposes Citrix NetScaler to Dangerous Memory Leak Attacks

The cybersecurity community is once again sounding the alarm over a new vulnerability in Citrix NetScaler devices- this time, it’s CVE-2025-5777 , also dubbed CitrixBleed 2. Following in the footsteps of the high-profile CitrixBleed vulnerability CVE-2023-4966 disclosed in 2023, this newly...

Imperva Named a Leader in Forrester Wave™: Web Application Firewall (WAF) Solutions: A Continued Legacy of Excellence

In today’s digital-first environment, protecting web applications and APIs is a critical priority for businesses. Organisations seek trusted solutions that balance robust protection, scalability, and ease of use. It’s no surprise that Imperva has been named a Leader in the Forrester Wave: Web...

From ChatBot To SpyBot: ChatGPT Post Exploitation

In the second installment of our blog post series on ChatGPT, we delve deeper into the security implications that come with the integration of AI into our daily routines. Building on the discoveries shared in our initial post, "XSS Marks the Spot: Digging Up Vulnerabilities in ChatGPT," where we...

Imperva Red Team Discovers Vulnerability in TikTok That Can Reveal User Activity and Information

TL;DR The Imperva Red Team discovered a vulnerability in TikTok, a popular social media platform with more than one billion users worldwide, that could allow attackers to monitor users activity on both mobile and desktop devices. This vulnerability, which has now been fixed, was caused by a windo...

Imperva and Kong Partner to Bring API Security to the Gateway for Enhanced API Management

Imperva is delighted to announce a new partnership with Kong Inc, provider of the leading cloud-native API platform, to offer best-in-class API Security to users of the Kong platform. Through the new partnership, Kong Enterprise customers can protect their business applications and data by...

Why Attackers Target the Healthcare Industry

Key Takeaways: Personal health information PHI is an incredibly valuable category of personal data. When compromised and sold on the dark web, this data can be sold for thousands of dollars. Healthcare is a valuable target to attackers, including the group Killnet, which targeted healthcare sites...

The Role of the Cybersecurity Leader in 2022

Who does the modern CISO need to be? According to the 2021 Gartner, Inc. Market Guide for Managed Detection and Response Services, the role of the chief information security officer CISO has to change in 2022 to combat the ever-evolving modern threat landscape. Eighty-eight percent of company...

How to build a security-first culture with remote teams

If recent world events have driven an increase in the number of remote workers in your organization, you are now confronted by even more security challenges for already stretched security teams and busy IT departments. Sixty-one percent of CISOs are more concerned about security risks targeting...

Reprioritizing security requirements for 2021

To say 2020 was a strange year would be an understatement. Among the effects of the global pandemic were major changes in where and how people work and accelerated commitments to organizational digital transformation. Cyber attackers weren’t shy about taking advantage of the blind spots these...

Imperva Cloud WAF Customers Can Easily Integrate Advanced Bot Protection for Increased Security

Almost 25% of web traffic is bad bots, and only growing both in volume and sophistication. This information and more is available in Imperva’s annual Bad Bot Report 2020. What are bad bots? They are not benign. Bad bots plague websites, mobile applications, and APIs with the goal of high-speed an...

Top 5 Cybersecurity Trends to Prepare for in 2020

I don’t need a crystal ball to predict that in 2020 cybersecurity attacks will accelerate and the tactics will evolve. We’ll continue to be hounded by greater volumes of the attacks that have threatened us for years and, as businesses adopt new innovations, new vulnerabilities to threats will...

Celebrate Cybersecurity Awareness Month with These Tips From a Survey of 1,200 Security Pros

Held every October, National Cybersecurity Awareness Month NCSAM is a collaborative effort between government and industry meant to raise awareness about the importance of cybersecurity. NCSAM is focused largely on consumer awareness, but for cybersecurity leaders, it is also a great opportunity ...

Critical Infrastructure and Cyber Security

Before the recent natural disasters, I could describe to you how we as a community might recover after a cyberattack to our critical infrastructure, but it would be hard to imagine. Some may argue that it would be too extreme of a scenario to consider and that we would never get to the point wher...

Today’s Predictions for Tomorrow’s Internet

This weekend I realized just how much the future of securing the Internet of Things IoT will become a critical component to maintain our lifestyle. CyberPatriot is the National Youth Cyber Education Program created by the Air Force Association to encourage careers in STEM. Each year the program...

Cloud Based WAF Upload Scan and Control: The New Standard for File Upload Security

We're excited to announce the launch of Upload Scan and Control, an essential new feature for Imperva Cloud WAF. This add-on tackles one of the most critical vulnerabilities facing web applications today—insecure file uploads—offering protection with scalability, simplicity, and enterprise-grade...

The Importance of Bot Management in Your Marketing Strategy

Marketing teams need a comprehensive bot management solution to address the challenges posed by bot traffic and protect marketing analytics. Bot management is designed to protect marketing efforts from bot-generated invalid traffic by accurately and efficiently classifying traffic and stopping...

Imperva Clinches 2023 SC Media Trust Award for Best Database Security Solution: A Back-to-Back Victory

Imperva, a global leader in cybersecurity, is proud to announce that we have once again been honored for our industry-leading database security solutions, earning the prestigious 2023 SC Media Trust Award for Best Database Security Solution. This accolade marks the second consecutive year that...

Imperva is named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Bot Management, Q2 2022

We are thrilled to announce that Imperva has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Bot Management, Q2 2022 report – a trusted source for technology buyers that helps security and risk professionals select the right vendor for their needs in a technology marketplace. The report offers a...

Five Takeaways from FlexBooker’s Data Breach

A few weeks ago, an appointment scheduling solution, FlexBooker notified its customers that it had been breached. Imperva has no specific insider knowledge into how the breach unfolded, but we can learn a lot from FlexBooker’s data breach notification as well as additional related sources. In thi...

Financial Services: Web Application Attacks Grow by 38% In First Half of 2021

During his career in the middle of the last century, professional bank robber Willie Sutton made off with an estimated $2 million in stolen money. Urban legend has it that when a journalist asked Sutton why he robbed banks, he replied, “That’s where the money is.” In later interviews, Sutton...

Imperva’s WAF Gateway 14.4 Protects Enterprises for the Post-COVID Era

Whether it’s called the New Normal or Next Normal era, COVID-19 has impacted all businesses worldwide and accelerated their digital transformation initiatives during this new post-pandemic era. Whether it’s from a recent retail trend like omnichannel commerce or a newly defined, post-COVID practi...

Imperva® Opens the first dedicated DDoS scrubbing center in Santiago, Chile

Imperva is excited to be further expanding our presence in Latin America by launching a new Point of Presence PoP in Santiago, Chile, in partnership with leading Chilean Telecommunications provider Entel Corporations. Located within Entel’s gold-standard Ciudad de Los Valles datacenter, which has...

Anatomy of a Security Super Bowl Dynasty, Part 1: The Defense

Imperva’s 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 used examples of how teams create consistent, sustainable success in American...

The Coronavirus Pandemic Is Widening the Cybersecurity Skills Gap

While there are undoubtedly many major challenges within the world of cybersecurity, one of the principal roadblocks to the implementation of effective data security is the lack of skilled cybersecurity practitioners. In a November 2019 report, the International Information System Security...

Lift the DDoS Smokescreen: Investigate Underlying Attacks

"Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him." Sun Tzu The sophistication of cybercriminals and the attraction of the “Black Hat” cyberspace have grown dramatically over the years. In the past, cyber assaults were carried out mostly by amateurs, motivated by boredom or plain...

Developers Versus Automation Engineers: How We Ended the Fighting with the Right CI Process

Hey developers and DevOps professionals: what if I told you that how you wrap and execute your automation tests could be the key to making your development process faster, more professional and stable, and stop the bickering between your developers and automation teams? This post will describe ho...

Hey Belfast, Imperva’s Moving Into The Neighborhood

As a local, I’m very excited to be Imperva’s first Belfast hire, in charge of spinning up the operation in our new European location. Imperva provides best-in-class data and application security solutions on premises, in the cloud, and in hybrid environments. As we position ourselves for the next...

What’s Next for Ransomware: Data Corruption, Exfiltration and Disruption

Ransomware’s popularity continues to skyrocket, due to its successful business model and the significant profit paid by its victims. Unlike other malware business models – where attackers steal data and then sell it on the darknet; hackers who utilize ransomware as their attack vector receive...