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...

Modern Database Security Buys Down More Risks for Enterprises

Pop quiz: how many data records are lost or stolen on an average day? 1 million? 3 million? 6 million? If you answered 6 million, you’re correct, according to the Breach Level Index. According to the Index, 14.7 billion records have been lost or stolen since 2013, or more than 2.2 billion per yea...

Cloud WAAPs Are the Future of Application Security. But What Does That Mean?

Millions of Verizon FIOS broadband users vulnerable to hackers controlling and surveilling their home networks. Thousands of GPS watches whose maps were open to attackers tracking and eavesdropping on children and elderly users. A zero-day hole in Microsoft’s Edge and Internet Explorer browsers...

Take these Five Steps to Really Mitigate your Data Breach Risks

Data breaches are a CSO/CISO’s worst nightmare. And they’re getting bigger and more damaging all the time. It’s no longer just hundreds of millions of users whose personal data is stolen at a time, but billions of users. That’s translating into ever-growing financial repercussions. The irony,...

Botnet-led DDoS Attacks Are Hitting Record Intensities. Imperva is Mitigating All of Them.

DDoS attacks are usually ranked by the amount of bandwidth involved, such as the 2018 GitHub attack that peaked at 1.35 Terabits per second and is often cited as the largest DDoS attack ever. From Imperva’s long history of successfully mitigating DDoS attacks, we know that the TRUE measure of...

Updated: This DDoS Attack Unleashed the Most Packets Per Second Ever. Here’s Why That’s Important.

Updated April 30, 2019 with new data from an even larger attack. Skip directly to the bottom to learn more. DDoS attacks are usually measured by the amount of bandwidth involved, such as the 1.35 Terabits per second maximum attack directed at GitHub last year, the largest DDoS attack ever at the...

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...

Maintaining Privacy in the Cloud [Podcast Discussion]

Not long ago I joined Brian Contos, CISO and VP of Product Innovation at Verodin, for one of his Verodin Cybersecurity Effectiveness Podcasts. It’s been about 10 years since I worked with Brian at Imperva when he was the Chief Security Strategist. Back then, he was the one traveling the world,...

Casino Goes All In and Wins Big with Imperva Security

There’s no good time to be hit by ransom-seeking DDoS attackers. For one casino-entertainment provider, the timing was particularly bad — right before one of its largest online poker events in 2016. The casino, which generates multiple billions in revenue per year, leveraged Imperva’s emergency...

The Ping is the Thing: Popular HTML5 Feature Used to Trick Chinese Mobile Users into Joining Latest DDoS Attack

DDoS attacks have always been a major threat to network infrastructure and web applications. Attackers are always creating new ways to exploit legitimate services for malicious purposes, forcing us to constantly research DDoS attacks in our CDN to build advanced mitigations. We recently...

Making Our Security Portfolio Simpler — and Better

Since its inception in 2009, Incapsula has been a proud part of Imperva, the analyst-recognized cybersecurity leader. However, cybersecurity needs are evolving, and so are we. On April 7th, we will officially retire Incapsula.com. All of the great Incapsula web site content that wasn’t already...

Not just for Processing: How Kafka Streams as a Distributed Database Boosted our Reliability and Reduced Maintenance

The Apache Kafka Streams library is used by enterprises around the world to perform distributed stream processing on top of Apache Kafka. One aspect of this framework that is less talked about is its ability to store local state, derived from stream processing. In this blog post we describe how w...

Imperva Wins CRN 5-Star Partner Program 3rd Year in a Row. Here are Some Stats Behind Why.

A lot goes into building a good IT channel program. A truly-effective program should meet the vendor’s needs while also delivering attractive benefits to our partners. A successful channel program should deliver a number of key elements, including: partner profitability partner self-service acces...

Enhance Imperva Cloud WAF with a New Management Tool in the Imperva GitHub

Imperva recently launched the Imperva GitHub where our global community can access tools, code repositories and other neat resources that aid collaboration and streamline development. The nice thing about these tools is that you can clone them and customize them with whatever functionality you...

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...

Imperva Cloud WAF and Graylog, Part II: How to Collect and Ingest SIEM Logs

This guide gives step-by-step guidance on how to collect and parse Imperva Cloud Web Application Firewall WAF, formerly Incapsula logs into the Graylog SIEM tool. Read Part I to learn how to set up a Graylog server in AWS and integrate with Imperva Cloud WAF. This guide assumes: You have a clean...

Now-Patched Google Photos Vulnerability Let Hackers Track Your Friends and Location History

A now-patched vulnerability in the web version of Google Photos allowed malicious websites to expose where, when, and with whom your photos were taken. Background One trillion photos were taken in 2018. With image quality and file size increasing, it’s obvious why more and more people choose to...

How Our Threat Analytics Multi-Region Data Lake on AWS Stores More, Slashes Costs

Data is the lifeblood of digital businesses, and a key competitive advantage. The question is: how can you store your data cost-efficiently, access it quickly, while abiding by privacy laws? At Imperva, we wanted to store our data for long-term access. Databases would’ve cost too much in disk and...

How to Deploy a Graylog SIEM Server in AWS and Integrate with Imperva Cloud WAF

Security Information and Event Management SIEM products provide real-time analysis of security alerts generated by security solutions such as Imperva Cloud Web Application Firewall WAF. Many organizations implement a SIEM solution to bring visibility of all security events from various solutions...

Mapping Communication Between Facebook Accounts Using a Browser-Based Side Channel Attack

A now-patched vulnerability in the web version of Facebook Messenger allowed any website to expose who you have been messaging with. In a previous post, I showed how your Facebook likes, location history, and other metadata could have been extracted from your Facebook account using a side-channel...

Imperva Wins Awards for Best Database Security, Coolest Cloud Security Vendor

SC Magazine has long been one of the most respected names in cybersecurity journalism, and one that has written about Imperva’s security research and solutions many times. So we’re proud to announce that we’ve won the 2019 SC Award for Best Database Security solution at SC’s awards ceremony on...

Hundreds of Vulnerable Docker Hosts Exploited by Cryptocurrency Miners

Docker is a technology that allows you to perform operating system level virtualization. An incredible number of companies and production hosts are running Docker to develop, deploy and run applications inside containers. You can interact with Docker via the terminal and also via remote API. The...

Don’t Let Security Needs Halt Your Digital Transformation. Imperva FlexProtect Offers Agile Security for any Enterprise.

Is your enterprise in the midst of a digital transformation? Of course it is. Doing business in today’s global marketplace is more competitive than ever. Automating your business processes and infusing them with always-on, real-time applications and other cutting-edge technology is key to keeping...

Latest Drupal RCE Flaw Used by Cryptocurrency Miners and Other Attackers

Another remote code execution vulnerability has been revealed in Drupal, the popular open-source Web content management system. One exploit — still working at time of this writing — has been used in dozens of unsuccessful attacks against our customers, with an unknown number of attacks, some like...

Imperva Makes Major Expansion in Application Security

When Imperva announced in 2018 it would acquire the application security solution provider Prevoty, a company I co-founded with Julien Bellanger, I knew it would be a win-win for our industry. Prevoty’s flagship product, Autonomous Application Protection, is the most mature, market-tested runtime...

No One is Safe: the Five Most Popular Social Engineering Attacks Against Your Company’s Wi-Fi Network

Your Wi-Fi routers and access points all have strong WPA2 passwords, unique SSIDs, the latest firmware updates, and even MAC address filtering. Good job, networking and cybersecurity teams! However, is your network truly protected? TL;DR: NO! In this post, I’ll cover the most common social...

How Imperva’s New Attack Crowdsourcing Secures Your Business’s Applications

Attacks on applications can be divided into two types: targeted attacks and “spray and pray” attacks. Targeted attacks require planning and usually include a reconnaissance phase, where attackers learn all they can about the target organization’s IT stack and application layers. Targeted...

A Cybersecurity and Cloud Innovator – and a Great Partner

Imperva has long been a cybersecurity leader, recognized by the likes of Gartner and Forrester Research for the capabilities of our application and data security solutions. For more than 6,000 business customers, we are their champion in the daily fight to secure data and applications. To ensure...

The Challenges of DIY Botnet Detection – and How to Overcome Them

Botnets have been around for over two decades, and with the rise of the Internet of Things IoT they have spread further to devices no one imagined they would - printers, webcams, and even toasters and fridges. Some botnets enlist infected devices to mine cryptocurrency or steal passwords from oth...

Meet the New Imperva – Defending Your Business Growth Today and Tomorrow

Today’s Imperva is a champion in the fight to secure data and applications, wherever they reside. The threat landscape is dangerous and ever-changing, but our thousands of customers know they can count on Imperva to protect them. No wonder our solutions are recognized as leaders by analysts such ...

Seven Must-Dos to Secure MySQL 8.0

Most database breaches are blamed on insiders such as employees who are either malicious or whose security has been compromised. In fact, most of these breaches are actually caused by poor security configuration and privilege abuse. Every new database version brings security upgrades. Use them...

Seven Must-Dos to Secure MySQL 8.0

Most database breaches are blamed on insiders such as employees who are either malicious or whose security has been compromised. In fact, most of these breaches are actually caused by poor security configuration and privilege abuse. Every new database version brings security upgrades. Use them...

Imperva Increases Self-Service Capability Fourfold with Custom Security Rules

Back in 2014, we introduced Rules previously IncapRules to give our customers advanced control over their application security. Today we’re putting even more of this custom tuning power in the hands of our customers by quadrupling the number of filters available via self-service. Rules Basics Rul...

Dynamic Content Acceleration in Imperva CDN Improves Enterprise Website Performance

Today we introduced a new dynamic content acceleration network enhancement feature designed to improve response times to the origin server by up to 30%. Clients using the Imperva content delivery network CDN service are now able to more fully leverage the high-quality connectivity between PoPs in...

The State of Web Application Vulnerabilities in 2018

Jan. 12 update: Due to a data transfer error, some of the 2017 figures were incorrectly reported; this version of the blog has been corrected. This error did not affect our 2018 statistics, nor our conclusions. As a web application firewall provider, part of our job at Imperva is to continually...

Scapy-sploit: Python Network Tool is Vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) Attack CVE pending

We recently discovered that the latest version of Scapy, a powerful packet manipulation tool used by cybersecurity researchers and network engineers, is susceptible to a Denial of Service DoS vulnerability. Ironically, we found this vulnerability while researching ways to better detect and fight...

The Year Ahead: Cybersecurity Trends To Look Out for In 2019

A Proven Record Tracking Cybersecurity Trends This time of the year is always exciting for us, as we get to take a step back, analyze how we did throughout the year, and look ahead at what the coming year will bring. Taking full advantage of our team’s expertise in data and application security,...

Read: New Attack Analytics Dashboard Streamlines Security Investigations

Attack Analytics, launched this May, aimed to crush the maddening pace of alerts that security teams were receiving. For security analysts unable to triage this avalanche of alerts, Attack Analytics condenses thousands upon thousands of alerts into a handful of relevant, investigable incidents...

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...