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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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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...

Ransomware: two pieces of good news

“All your files have been encrypted.” How many times has this suddenly popped up on your screen? We hope never, because it’s one of...

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...