We at Imperva are excited to announce that our latest data security innovation is now available! Made for the cloud, Imperva Cloud Data Security augments our industry-leading application and data security solutions, providing an industry-first, complete cloud data SaaS security…
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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…
Imperva is a Leader in the Forrester Wave: Web Application Firewalls, Q1
Web application firewalls continue to be a core technology function for securing critical assets, and for IT professionals, market analyst reports and validation are critical when deciding upon new WAF solutions. That’s why we’re proud to share that Imperva Cloud…
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…
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…
Imperva Boosts Capacity to Meet Demand in Malaysia
Imperva is enhancing support for its customers in Asia by increasing capacity at its PoP in Kuala Lumpur (KL), Malaysia. Home to hundreds of multinational companies, KL’s thriving high-tech economy and strong financial center positions it well as a global…
Key Findings from the 2020 Cyberthreat Defense Report
The new 2020 Cyberthreat Defense Report (CDR) released this week. Now in its seventh year, the annual report provides a look at how global cybersecurity professionals perceive threats and plan to defend against them. The CDR enables cybersecurity professionals to…
Surge in online traffic increases risk to businesses
Imperva Research Labs has been monitoring the data across our thousands of customers since the outbreak of COVID-19. In reviewing anonymized data from our CyberThreat Index, we see new risks and several initial security implications from this pandemic for our…
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…
Deploy a Cloud WAF & DDoS Solution While Complying with Australian Data Sovereignty
Australia has strict data sovereignty laws in place to ensure that personal customer data remains within the country’s borders. However, we often hear about cloud-based WAF vendors being unable to guarantee that data will not be moved across borders for…
Remote File Inclusion (RFI) – Detecting the Undetectable
Intro Remote File Inclusion [RFI] is an attack exploiting the functionality in web applications which allows the inclusion of external source code without validating its content or origin. An RFI payload is a link that points to a malicious file…
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…
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…
DDoS as a smokescreen
“Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him.” ~ Sun Tzu Sophistication of cyber criminals and the attraction of the “Black Hat” cyber space are growing dramatically over the years. In the past, cyber assaults were…
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…
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…
The Resurrection of PHPUnit RCE Vulnerability
Once a software patch is released, we tend to believe it means “problem solved”. Most of the time, however, this is not actually the case. Fully solving the problem requires all developers to grab the latest patch version and deploy…
How we productized our staging environment and survived to tell the tale
Managing the Imperva SaaS infrastructure is like herding cats. There are so many moving parts, new developments, testing, fixing bugs, patching, reducing our SLAs, fighting the bad guys and, most importantly, pushing our latest and greatest to production every week.…
I know where you rode last summer: Uncovering the security issues of shared scooter services
We recently discovered flaws in the security of shared electric scooter services that have worrying implications for the safety and privacy of their users. Not only is it possible to remotely ring the bells of scooters all over the world,…
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…
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…
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…
Imperva Received Top Scores in Gartner’s “Critical Capabilities for Cloud Web Application Firewalls”
The web application landscape is constantly changing, and the tools needed for the best application security protection need to change with the landscape. With Imperva’s recent improvements in API Security, Bot Management, DDoS and Cloud WAF, it’s easy to see…
Automating API Security in the Cloud
These days, the most common way for services to communicate and transfer data is by using APIs. However, broken, exposed, or hacked APIs are the cause of some of the latest major data breaches, as they have the potential to…
The State of Vulnerabilities in 2019
As a web application firewall provider, part of our job at Imperva is to continually monitor for new security vulnerabilities. To do this, we use internal software that collects information from various data sources such as vulnerability databases, newsletters, forums,…
Imperva Mitigates Exploits of Citrix Vulnerability – Right Out of the Box
On December 17, Citrix issued a Security Bulletin on an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2019-19781) affecting its Citrix Application Delivery Controller (ADC) – formerly known as NetScaler ADC – and its Citrix Gateway – formerly known as NetScaler Gateway.…
Imperva Launches New Data Center in Argentina
Imperva’s New Expansion We are happy to announce that Imperva has launched our new Buenos Aires data center. We’re thrilled to bring our leadership in cybersecurity plus enhanced performance and decreased latency to Argentina and the surrounding countries in the…
Businesses Will Buy Down Risk With Defense-in-Depth – 2020 Trend #5
As 2019 came to an end, Imperva CTO Kunal Anand began working with our global research team, Imperva Labs, to put together a list of the most important cybersecurity issues security leaders should be prepared for in 2020. He published…
Working for a Winning Company
My interest in Imperva was indirectly created two years ago through an introduction to the Thoma Bravo (TB) team. After meeting a number of the key players at TB, I made a mental note that given the opportunity, this was…
Why I joined Imperva
I’ve been in the cybersecurity industry for a couple of decades now, and the tech industry even longer. If there’s one thing I’ve learned across all my roles, it’s the value of focusing on customer experience. It sounds intuitive, right?…
Adding Some Salt to Our Network – Part 2
How our configuration management actually works Following a previous post which explained why we needed a configuration management system, this post explores how we built and implemented our configuration management using SaltStack. It describes the structure of our configuration and…
Automated Attacks Call for Automated Protection – 2020 Trend #3
In our blog series on security trends, we’ve been diving deeper into the five security predictions for 2020 made by our CTO Kunal Anand during his fireside chat with Imperva CMO David Gee. Watch it here. As I’ll discuss in…
Thrilled to Join Imperva
Today marks my first day at Imperva and I could not be more thrilled to join the outstanding team behind the impressive products that keep our customers safe every day. I’ve been asked to share why I joined Imperva, and…