Cloud Template Tool – The only way for Imperva On-Premises deployment on AWS

For the last six years, Imperva’s customers have been able to deploy our On-Premises product on AWS and enjoy the many advantages of cloud deployment including flexibility, cost-effectiveness, scalability, accessibility and many others. But using Imperva On-Premises on AWS wasn’t always easy, and...

The Zero Trust Approach to Data Security – 2020 Trend #2

As 2019 comes to an end, our security experts are looking ahead to the new year to predict cybersecurity trends that will shape the landscape in 2020. Imperva CTO Kunal Anand blogged about his “Top 5 Cybersecurity Trends to Prepare for in 2020,” last week. This week, we’re digging deeper into his...

2019 Hackathon Challenges Imperva to Solve Problems Together

The smell of pizza –150 boxes to be exact – filled our global offices last week as more than 220 Impervians technical and non-technical rolled up their sleeves to participate in Imperva’s annual company-wide hackathon. As chair of the event this year, I was determined to host a hackathon that...

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...

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...

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...

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...

How to Maximize Your WAF

Whenever new WAF clients are brought aboard, there’s a procedure they must follow in order to properly configure their servers to work behind the WAF protection. You can find an example of the Imperva Cloud WAF onboarding procedure here. Sometimes, however, customers can miss important procedures...

How to Protect Holiday Shoppers from Bots and Scammers

It’s the most wonderful time of year for gift card scammers. With Black Friday, Cyber Monday and the holidays just around the corner, consumers will spend billions on gift cards for hard-to-shop-for friends, family, and colleagues. Imperva VP Tiffany Olson Kleemann was interviewed on Good Morning...

Deployment Isn’t the Final Step – Monitoring Machine Learning Models in Production

Unless you’ve been living in a cave for the last decade, you’ve probably heard of the concept of a machine learning system at least once in your life. Whether it’s auto-translation, auto-completion, face or voice recognition, recommendation systems or autonomous driving, AI-based systems can be...

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...

Secure Your Digital Transformation

Digital transformation DX is on the mind, IT budget sheet, and board meeting agenda for the majority of enterprise-level organizations. The term digital transformation is becoming ubiquitous, but its definition can be ambiguous. Within the context of this blog, DX refers to how organizations...

How Machine Learning is Changing the Face of Financial Services

Artificial intelligence AI has become integrated into our everyday lives. It powers what we see in our social media newsfeeds, activates facial recognition to unlock our smartphones, and even suggests music for us to listen to. Machine learning, a subset of AI, is progressively integrating into o...

Detecting Account Takeover Botnets

A botnet is a network of compromised computers - known as bots - usually controlled by a command and control computer, that work together in coordination for a malicious purpose. In this blog post, we’ll discuss how to detect botnets used for account takeover ATO, an attack used to obtain the val...

Don’t Skip Data Discovery During Your Compliance Program

If your business collects customer data of any kind, it’s safe to assume you’re also aware of the multitude of new privacy and security mandates. While these regulations are an ideal driver of investment for bolstering your security programs, it’s important not to forget about one of the most...

A Web-Driven World Needs Better Web Security

Web interfaces are everywhere. From social media sites to online shopping portals to your CRM, the humble web interface is now used to access much of the online world. So, it isn’t difficult to see why web applications are a prime target for cybercriminals. Because they’re used by customers and...

Tracking CVE-2019-11043 PHP Vulnerability – An Uncommon Chain of Events

On October 22, security researcher Omar Ganiev published a tweet regarding remote code execution vulnerability in PHP-FPM the FastCGI Process Manager running on the Nginx server. The tweet includes a link to a GitHub repository with an explanation of the vulnerability and a PoC proof-of-concept f...

What is NYDFS?

NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulation, 23 NYCRR 500 On March 1, 2017, the New York State Department of Financial Services NYDFS introduced new cybersecurity regulations for financial services companies that address the growing threat posed by cyber-criminality to financial firms. They are intended to...

HTTP Desync Attacks in the Wild and How to Defend Against Them

Inspired by an article by Watchfire from 2005, we recently explored an old attack technique named HTTP Request Smuggling and checked it against our WAF protection. By coincidence, it turned out someone else was also exploring this technique at the same time. Given the hype it received as a result...

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...

Key Compliance Concepts for Financial Services

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act SOX was introduced following a number of financial scandals involving huge conglomerates and obliges companies to establish internal controls to prevent fraud and abuse, holding senior managers accountable for the accuracy of financial reporting. The financial crisis in 200...

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 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...

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 ...

Adopting a Risk-Based Approach to Cybersecurity in the Financial Services Industry

Today’s financial organizations face many different risks in volatile and uncertain business environments, but the ever-present threat of cyberattacks and data breaches is now impossible to ignore. For this reason, managing these cyber-risks now has to simply be considered one of the many costs 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...

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...

New Research From Imperva Bot Management Tracks Gift Card Abuse

Researchers at Imperva Bot Management formerly Distil Networks have been tracking online bots that target the e-commerce gift card systems of major online retailers. The threat actors they’ve studied show remarkable resourcefulness and adaptability. In a recent podcast, Imperva Bot Management’s...

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...

A Leader in the 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for WAF, Six Years Running

Gartner has published its 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Web Application Firewalls WAF and Imperva has been named a Leader for the sixth consecutive year! Along with our WAF Gateways and easy-to-deploy Cloud WAF we recently added API Security, RASP, Account Takeover Protection, Bot Management, a...

E-commerce: Bad bots are ready for the holidays. Are you?

The busiest time for online retailers is almost upon us—the holiday season. Each business is looking at ways to take advantage of cyber week when a significant portion of annual sales are made. At this time, preparation is well underway for Black Friday and Cyber Monday promotions. But another...

APIs Ease Customer Interaction — and External Attacks. Here’s how to Protect Them.

To deliver seamless service experiences to our customers, businesses now rely heavily on application programming interfaces APIs. These are a non-negotiable aspect of the way we streamline the interactions and conversations we have with our customers, both internal and external. APIs are now so...

Your Business is Compliant with Data Security Regulations. It’s Still not Safe.

There has been plenty of discussion about the impact of global data regulations on data security practices. Particularly with the implementation of the EU’s GDPR last year, organizations in every industry have been scrambling to develop new security practices to avoid fines and the associated bad...

Clear Message Sent: Don’t Roll the Dice on Data Privacy Compliance

Last month, two leading companies each received what were then record-setting fines for data breach violations: £183 million for British Airways and then, just two weeks later, $5 billion for Facebook. Regulators sent a clear message to organizations around the world — if you don't treat your...

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 —...

Stronger Together, Red Hat 3scale Integration

Most enterprises today rely on customers accessing their applications to conduct daily business. These enterprises know by now that application programming interfaces APIs are becoming more common than ever before to enable communication between applications and end users. Even though they are...

Enabling Faster DDoS Mitigation for Cloud Assets

The cloud journey was considered a visionary approach less than a decade ago. Today, more than half of organizations rely on a cloud provider, and are planning to expand their portfolios across multiple cloud platforms, as part of their ongoing digital transformation. Is the so-called cloud promi...

Imperva Blocks Our Largest DDoS L7/Brute Force Attack Ever (Peaking at 292,000 RPS)

Imagine you’re a developer building a new web application. You’ve followed all of the security best practices, hired a reputable penetration testing company before launch, and gone through extensive bug fixing to remove any vulnerabilities. However, would you be confident that your application...

New 3-Second DDoS Mitigation SLA is 3x Faster and the Industry’s Best

Back in 2018, we made waves with a groundbreaking DDoS Mitigation SLA service level agreement for our DDoS Protection service that guaranteed to mitigate DDoS attacks in under 10 seconds. Now, we’ve upped the ante to ensure DDoS attack mitigation with a new, industry-best three seconds-or-less...

How Account Takeover Botnets Outsmart Traditional Security Controls

Account Takeover ATO describes when an online account is accessed and/ or used by someone other than its legitimate owner, usually for malicious purposes. Account Takeover attacks happen when an attacker is trying to get unauthorized access to an account or when the account has already been...

A New Chapter in Bot Management Begins Today [Video]

I am excited to share that we have closed the acquisition of Distil Networks, the pioneer and leader in Bot Management. Over the past few weeks, we have been welcoming Distil’s employees into the Imperva family and have started integrating their powerful, analyst-recognized Bot Management solutio...

Personalized Customer Support that Garners a Personalized Thank You

In my two-plus years as a Technical Support Engineer at Imperva, I’ve handled a wide variety of customer cases. And I’ve had the satisfaction of helping resolve them quickly and successfully. But never before have I received a handwritten thank you note from an effusive customer. Let me start at...

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...

Every Second Counts When You’re Under Attack — Imperva Provides 3 Second DDoS Mitigation, Stops Account Takeovers & Protects your APIs

Let’s be blunt: cybersecurity is a never-ending arms race between bad actors and IT and security teams. Lately, attackers have surged. Armed with powerful, inexpensive hacking tools and deep knowledge gleaned from successful breaches, attackers are organizing sprawling botnets, probing soft targe...

SQL Injection Attacks: So Old, but Still So Relevant. Here’s Why (Charts)

We’re living in the Golden Age of data. Some companies analyze it to better themselves, others trade it for profit, none give it up freely due to its value — for their business, and for criminals, as well. SQL Structured Query Language is an extremely popular way to communicate with databases...

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...

Imperva to Acquire Distil Networks, the Leader in Bot Management

As an established leader in cybersecurity, Imperva provides our customers the most comprehensive, analyst-recognized application security solution on the market. We are a five-time leader in Gartner’s 2018 Magic Quadrant for Web Application Firewalls WAF. Our DDoS Protection continues to...

Web Security Leader Rapidly Expands by Partnering with AWS and Imperva

Companies try to plan and pace their growth. Those plans go out the window when a merger or acquisition happens, as it did to DigiCert Inc. DigiCert, based in Lehi, Utah, had long been a leading Certificate Authority CA, providing electronic documents that verify and authenticate the identities o...

Infonomics-based Model Teaches CISOs how to Assess their Data’s Financial Risk, Invest Properly in Data Security

Here’s what I consider the biggest contradiction in cybersecurity: the most-financially-damaging, reputation-destroying security incidents almost always involves the theft of millions of database records. Yet, data security is one of the smallest line items in a security budget. Consider that tot...

Build Bikes and Go Fast: Why Building Bikes is Critical to Imperva’s Success

In May 2019, seventy members of Imperva’s global leadership team gathered in one location to share insights, to develop and commit to our future strategy, and to build bikes. That’s right, to build bikes. Of course, that bit about developing and committing to our future strategy is undeniably...