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As on-premises and cloud-hosted data repositories get larger, they are outstripping the ability of traditional data-crunching methods to efficiently analyze the information. As a result, more enterprises have turned to data science and machine learning platforms to create business value. The benefit of using a platform for big-data analytics is ... Read More

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 direction. The foundational tenet of the ... Read More

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 traditional security solutions don’t work in cloud environments. Even so, ... Read More

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 ... Read More

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 Cybersecurity Framework for Securing Cloud Data for Digital Transformation, author Richard Steinnon explains what vendors of managed cloud-based services provide and what they do not. In ... Read More

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 breaches have impacted organizations in all industries ... Read More

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 process. If ... Read More

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 attacks may also be ... Read More

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 data model with unstructured data ... Read More

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 Security, and as a Market ... Read More