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The Five Principles of a Zero Trust Cybersecurity Model
When even the US Government concludes that to ensure baseline security practices are in place and to realize the security benefits of cloud-based infrastructure while mitigating associated risks, they must migrate to a zero trust model, every organization should be actively moving in that...
“Don’t touch that server. Ralf set that up, and we don’t know what it does.”
Based on a true story… More than a couple of decades ago, I went to work for a network and web company as their customer marketing department. It was a crazy time. Online marketing was all about getting on DMOZ, Lycos was still a puppy, asking Jeeves felt like talking to an AI, and how you laid o...
In the Fight Against DDoS Attacks, not all PoPs are Created Equal
A distributed denial of service DDoS attack is a malicious attempt to make an online service unavailable to users, usually by temporarily interrupting or suspending the services of its hosting server. A DDoS attack is launched from numerous compromised devices, often distributed globally in what ...
Three Keys to Turning Data-centric Security Theory into Practice
Most cybersecurity professionals agree that as more organizations move data and applications to cloud-hosted environments, traditional measures focusing on protecting IT infrastructures are not up to the task. In fact, according to Crowd Research Partners, 84 percent of organizations say...
Cybersecurity and PR: Making Data Protection Public
The customer cares Customers regularly see news about privacy and hacking, and they want to know that it’s safe for them to give over their personal data. A lack of trust in an eCommerce site is a leading reason why potential customers abandon their shopping carts. Consumers have no shortage of...
What we know about VMWare CVE-2022–31656 and CVE-2022–31659
Takeaways: VMWare Workspace ONE vulnerabilities CVE-2022-31656 and CVE-2022-31659 work in tandem to allow a remote attacker with network access to conduct remote code execution on the server. Imperva Threat Research has seen a sharp rise in attacks since a POC was published on August 9, mostly...
Is it Illegal to Scrape a Website for Content?
Web scraping is the process of using bots to extract information from a website. In recent years, the debate over web scraping is growing more complex as business intelligence and data privacy issues arise. The practice of web scraping has gone on for nearly as long as there have been websites. T...
Why Cybersecurity Needs to be a Part of Your ESG
What is an ESG? Environmental, social, and corporate governance ESG documentation is a way to visualize and evaluate how an organization is working for the betterment of social goals and how that organization is responding to the cry for greener, more aware, and more responsible, sustainable...
Five Data Security Controls and Processes you Must Bring to Cloud-native Infrastructures
Too frequently, there are significant misunderstandings in organizations with regard to who has the responsibility to protect cloud-hosted data. In Imperva’s recent report, A Data-Centric Cybersecurity Framework for Digital Transformation, IT analyst and author Richard Stiennon explains what...
Research Shows the Annual Cost of API Security-related Breaches is Mind-blowing
Application Programming Interfaces APIs have emerged as useful tools that streamline business operations and enhance the digital experience for customers. As their use has become more widespread, they are a much more prominent part of the cyber threat landscape. API-related hacks and data breache...
The Three Key Competencies that Optimize Data Security Orchestration
One of the principal benefits of a modern data-centric security fabric is being able to automatically apply security controls to the data itself and drive policy-compliant data handling behavior by privileged users. But we all know that detecting a security incident is just the first part of the...
US Websites Targeted by 40% of the Bad Bot Traffic Worldwide
Bad bot attacks are often the first indicator of fraudulent activity targeting your website. This activity may be over-the-top, like validating stolen user credentials and credit card information to later be sold on the dark web or scraping proprietary data to gain a competitive advantage. Bot...
What is Dark Data, and how can we find it?
What is “dark data”? The term “dark data” refers to “any information assets that organizations collect, process, and store during regular business activities but generally fail to use for other purposes” Gartner. Often retained for compliance reasons, this data can also include past employee...
How Organizations Manage to Understand Millions of Unstructured Data Files at Scale
For an ever-growing segment of organizations, making sense of unstructured data is fast becoming imperative. It is also far more challenging. Unlike structured data that’s stored in rows and columns, text-based, and easy to search in relational databases and data warehouses, there is no defined...
Imperva Reaches New Heights as it Opens PoPs in Cape Town and Rio
Imperva is reaching new heights as we expand our global network of data centers with new points of presence PoPs in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Cape Town, South Africa. The two cities, often compared to each other for their many similarities including their breathtaking coastlines, white sandy...
Imperva Earns Three Cyber Defense Global InfoSec Awards for 2022
The Cyber Defense Awards in conjunction with Cyber Defense Magazine recently announced the winners of their prestigious annual Global Infosec Awards for 2022. We are proud to say that Imperva earned three Global Infosec Awards; as Most Innovative for Application Security, Cutting Edge for Cloud...
Four Main Reasons Shoppers Abandon eCommerce Carts
More than just window shopping eCommerce shopping cart abandonment causes brands a sobering USD 18 Billion in annual revenue Forrester Research. While rates differ by device, with mobile and tablet device users most likely to leave before completing their order, nearly 70 percent of shoppers dese...
Bots Hide Behind User Privacy – Should You Be Concerned?
Bot operators are perpetually devising innovative techniques to sneak past security as they go about their dubious, often downright illegal business. Emulating human behavior and traffic patterns are key elements of their strategy. One of the many layers comprising this strategy is reporting thei...
A Data-Centric Cybersecurity Framework for Digital Transformation
In this white paper A Cybersecurity Framework for Securing Cloud Data for Digital Transformation, analyst Richard Steinnon of IT Harvest explains that while cloud vendors supply a resilient and secure infrastructure, organizations who put data into the cloud are ultimately responsible for...
Multiple Imperva Products Earn 2022 Fortress Cyber Security Awards
In June, the Business Intelligence Group announced that three Imperva products have earned the 2022 Fortress Cyber Security Awards. The mission of this prestigious award program is to identify and reward leading companies and products globally that are successfully keeping data and electronic...
How to ‘Win’ a Red Team Exercise
What is a red team exercise? Organizations that conduct red team exercises use penetration testing tactics to assess vulnerabilities and discover weak points in their cybersecurity preparation. Usually, this involves two teams - one red the protagonists and one blue the incident responders who mu...
What is Steganography, and how can we Avoid it?
What is steganography? Steganography is, broadly, a type of covert communication involving the use of any medium to hide messages. Steganography is a relatively old technique of hiding ‘secret’ data in plain sight to avoid detection. Seeing a resurgence of late, bad actors are taking advantage of...
Top Challenges to Implementing Data Privacy: Nailing Down Discovery and Classification First is Key
Why Discover and Classify is so critical Ice hockey goal-scoring great Wayne Gretzky is reported to have said, “You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.” The data security version of this quip is “you protect zero percent of the data you can’t see” and the data privacy version is “if you...
Four Reasons why you Should Consider Contingency DDoS Protection
The experts agree that Imperva is solidly positioned as a leader in Distributed Denial of Service DDoS mitigation. Over our many years as leaders in this space, we have determined that no matter how reliable your current DDoS protection is, there is always a chance that your network infrastructur...
How to do Feature Selection Using Feature Contribution Data
Feature contribution is a method to give a weight to each feature that reflects its impact on the model’s prediction. Feature contribution can be calculated on an entire dataset or a single data point. In our previous blog post, we showed how to visualize feature contributions to make it easy to...
Anomaly Detection at Scale Using SQL and Facebook’s Prophet Forecasting Algorithm
Anomaly detection is a very important task. At Imperva we use it for threat hunting, risk analysis, risk mitigation, trends detection and more. In a previous post we showed how it can be done in a simple method by SQL. This time we wanted to use Prophet, which is an algorithm for forecasting time...
Fundamental Security Concepts and Best Practices Every Game Developer Should Know
Gaming is now the world’s favorite form of entertainment, with Newzoo reporting that by 2023 there will be more than three billion gamers across the planet. With the growth of multiplayer games, however, the number of cheaters has also increased. A study by The New York Times found that almost 50...
The Benefits of Including Static Data Masking in Your Security Arsenal
Static data masking SDM is defined as, “The act of permanently replacing sensitive data at rest with a realistic fictional equivalent for the purpose of protecting data from unwanted disclosure.” Industry analysts characterize SDM as a must-have data protection layer capable of protecting large...
New Waiting Room Solution Ensures Best Peak User Experience
New Imperva Waiting Room Enables Organizations to Deliver Consistent Optimal Website User Experiences During Peak Traffic Periods Organizations benchmark website success by the volume of legitimate traffic and online sales it generates. Website architects want to drive as many visitors as possibl...
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 Monitor Athena Usage to Understand Your Operations, and Control Security and Costs
Introduction to our data lakes experience Data lakes are great. They are flexible as they allow many object formats and multiple query engines. They are also cost effective - there is no need to manage or pay for resources like disks, cpu and memory. Data is simply stored in an object store and i...
How to Find Extra Cybersecurity Budget
Risk is up and budgets are down Organizational cybersecurity is a business issue, one could even say a finance issue, not just an IT issue. Gone are the days when cybersecurity was a luxury investment. Worldwide attacks are growing daily in frequency and complexity, regardless of the business siz...
ATO Attacks Targeting Financial Services Increased 58 Percent in May. Who Else Needs to Worry?
Account takeover ATO is a form of identity theft that cyber criminals use to get unauthorized access to the accounts of legitimate users through some kind of brute force method such as Credential Stuffing. In 2022, account takeover attacks are on the rise. In June for example, Imperva’s Threat...
Why a “Lift-and-shift” Cloud Migration Strategy Doesn’t Support Data Security
The classic 1982 Steven Spielberg horror film “Poltergeist” chronicles disturbing, unexplained paranormal activity happening in a suburban family’s idyllic home. As the activity becomes more sinister and terrifying, the family learns that their neighborhood was built on an old burial ground. It...
Five Ways the Gaming & Gambling Industry is Targeted by Bad Bots
Let’s play a game of chance: What are the odds that your gaming website is being targeted by bad bots? Imperva research suggests they’re higher than you may think. Imperva’s 2022 Bad Bot Report reveals that 53.9 percent of traffic to gaming and gambling websites comes from bad bots. With the...
How the Evolution of Agents has Been Essential for Modern Database Security
In today’s data driven world, every organization’s most important asset is their data. Accordingly and similarly to other protected components like applications, web and peripheral gateways, databases require a dedicated security solution as well. An essential database security solution must...
Determining “Need to share vs. Need to know” is a Cornerstone of a Data Protection Strategy
There is a paradox that lies at the heart of data security. Data itself only has real value if an organization can share it with stakeholders that need it to perform their roles. However, the more widely an organization shares data the greater the risks of the data being compromised. Data securit...
Natural Language Processing and “Mindful” AI Drive More Sophisticated Bad Bot Attacks
The evolution from human to bot attacks Over the last several years of my career in cyber security, I have been fortunate to work with professionals who researched and developed new cyber security detection and prevention solutions that block high-end cyber attacks. Initially, these attacks were...
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...
Four Key Findings from the 2022 Cyberthreat Defense Report
For the ninth year, Imperva is proud to sponsor CyberEdge Group’s annual Cyberthreat Defense Report. In this report, CyberEdge Group delivers a detailed accounting of how IT security professionals perceive cyberthreats today and reveals actionable insights into how they plan to defend their...
7 Facts About Insider Threats That Should Make you Rethink Data Security
In the report, Insider Threats Drive Data Protection Improvements, Forrester Research asserts that most organizations are making positive steps toward protecting the sensitive data they are migrating to the cloud. However, Forrester suggests that many have not devised a comprehensive plan that...
Imperva Introduces New Features to Help Prevent Online Fraud
As we move more of our daily activities and the services we consume online, the threat of fraud grows, and the risks become greater. Data suggests the majority of organizations are already detecting a rise in online fraud. In a recent survey of senior risk executives, 67 percent said that their...
Gone Ape? How to Protect NFTs from Theft
What are NFTs? Non-fungible tokens NFTs are unique and irreplaceable digital assets that, by their nature, have an intrinsic value. These could be digital art, photography, GIFs, avatars, memes, 3D objects, domain names, trading cards, virtual land, music, or other digitally tradable tokens. Each...
How to Reduce the Risk of Buy Now, Pay Later Fraud
According to a recent FinTech trends report, 2022 is expected to be a big year for Buy Now, Pay Later BNPL. Apple’s recent announcement of its entry into BNPL with Apple Pay Later represents a seismic boom for a sector which is projected to top $1 trillion in annual gross merchandise volume by...
How CISOs can Find and Retain Security Staff During the Great Resignation
The rising demand for cybersecurity professionals As if the skill shortfall in cybersecurity wasn’t bad enough, the employment landscape is shifting rapidly. This shift is due, in part, to historically low unemployment claims, unrivaled quit rates, and swathes of baby boomers and older Gen X...
Q1 2022 Global DDoS Threat Landscape Report Findings Summary
Last week, Imperva released the Q1 2022 Global DDoS Threat Landscape Report. To produce the report’s findings, Imperva performs detailed statistical analysis of all DDoS activity that our Threat Research Labs monitored from our global network of PoPs during the first three months of 2022. In...
Five Ways Cyber Attackers Leverage Bad Bots to Commit Automated Fraud
The accelerated shift to digital payments has made online fraud more prevalent than ever, as losses from it are expected to exceed $206 billion over the next five years, driven by identity fraud, fake accounts, and payment fraud. Catalyzed by the pandemic, the shift gained substantial traction in...
Three Reasons Why Unification Drives Modern Data Security Strategy
Today, the necessities of business innovation compel most organizations to have several teams with diverse priorities managing dozens of data sources, all with different structures. This makes it impossible to secure complete data repositories successfully using traditional methods. This post wil...
Imperva Customers are protected from Atlassian Confluence CVE-2022-26134
This is an evolving storyline. Last update: June 4, 2022. On June 2, 2022, Atlassian published a security advisory regarding a CVE for versions of Confluence Server and Data Center applications greater than 1.3.0. The advisory details a critical severity unauthenticated remote code execution...
Enhance Network Resiliency with Contingency DDoS Protection
Recent digital market outages have proven the fragility of network infrastructure. When your primary service provider experiences an unexpected outage, your infrastructure is left unprotected and vulnerable to a DDoS attack. The downtime you face waiting for your DDoS mitigation to start working...