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 assets worldwide safe from a growing threat ... Read More
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 ... Read More
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 swaths of data within an organization ... Read More
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 turns out that the real estate developer moved ... Read More
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 ... Read More
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 enterprises against them. To develop these findings, ... Read More
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 addresses a primary obstacle to data security, internal ... Read More
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 will explain how and why you need to give up ... Read More
Five Steps to Prepare Data for a Zero-Trust Security Model
The outmoding of traditional network security Traditional network security was based on the concept of a guarded network perimeter, which is difficult to access from the outside but implicitly trusts everyone on the inside. The problem with this approach is that once an attacker has access to the network, they ... Read More
The 3 Biggest DDoS Attacks Imperva Has Mitigated
Imperva has just released the DDoS Threat Landscape Report Q1 2022. Download it now to familiarize yourself with new threats and get detailed information about current DDoS attack patterns and their potential impact on your business. So far, 2022 has been a brutal year for DDoS attacks and we see ... Read More
