In April 2022 it was reported that pro-Russian hacktivist group, KILLNET, carried out a series of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against a number of websites including the United Nations (UN), The Organization for Security and Cooperation (OSCE) an organization founded in Finland, and other European sites in Czechia, ... Read More

Today at least 90% of developers are using APIs in cloud-native web application development. According to new data collected by Forrester Research and presented in their report, Improve API Performance with a Sound API Security Strategy, 62 percent of IT decision makers believe the value they gain from APIs is ... Read More

They say the devil is in the details. This is especially true for security professionals that use Splunk as their organization’s primary security analytics engine. Splunk analytics gives security teams a real-time view of machine data from networks, data centers, or IT environments. Organizations also use Splunk to retain log ... Read More

It shouldn’t be news to anyone that people sharing information online are concerned about the safety of their data. Imperva recently conducted a study with YouGov plc regarding consumers’ attitudes towards data, whether they feel in control of their personal data, and if they trust the organizations tasked with protecting ... Read More

Nobody ever says, “We don’t need better security for the data we manage.” There is, however, a balancing act that security professionals perform every day to get the most security value from their solutions at the lowest possible cost. As they move more workloads into cloud-native environments and more databases ... Read More

An Application Programming Interface (API) is a software intermediary that allows applications to communicate with one another. APIs provide routines, protocols, and tools for developers to facilitate and accelerate the creation of software applications. They enable applications to easily access and share data. APIs connect Web-based applications and other services ... Read More

For organizations that use it, Imperva’s DAM Gateway is the workhorse of data auditing and security. Today, the explosion of data and data repositories that organizations need to manage – both on-premises and in cloud environments – requires a more flexible, higher-capacity technology platform to execute data auditing and security ... Read More

Today, there are still API security threats that most WAFs and Advanced Bot Protection solutions cannot manage. In this post, we’ll explain these new types of threats and make some recommendations for features you need within solutions to protect your APIs. When a bad actor makes a completely valid API ... Read More

Given the dramatic increases in the volume and frequency of data theft due to breaches and the increased threat of cyberattacks resulting from current conflicts, organizations worldwide are prioritizing tactical and strategic efforts to shore up their data security. Here are six best practices you can implement right now to ... Read More

A short primer on internet bots An Internet bot (bot, for short) is a software application that runs automated tasks over the internet. Bots typically run simple tasks which they can perform at a dramatically greater rate than any human. Beneficial or anodyne bots are characterized as legitimate, or good ... Read More