Understanding the EMA research report on ‘API Security: Debunking the Myths’
When a research report on API security claims that the responses they received “showed a remarkable disconnect between perception and the reality of the security that the respondents’ organizations use for the APIs”, you have to take a deeper dive ... Read More
What is API Detection and Response?
What ChatGPT says about API Detection and Response ... Read More
2023 The Year of Redefining API Security
With the start of a new year, most security firms feel obligated to dust off their crystal ball (AI-driven, of course) and cart out their predictions for the coming year. With such tradition, how could we resist to do otherwise. Rather than simply prognosticate, we turned to customer conversations to ... Read More
A False Assumption of Trust in Business APIs
Digital business is driving significant levels of growth and effectiveness for companies in a way that is becoming a have and have-not differentiator for success and even survival. Unfortunately, the drive to develop and deliver new revenue opportunities means that cybersecurity is always playing catch-up. Today, companies are opening up ... Read More
Bad Bot Traffic on Healthcare Websites Rises 372% As Vaccines Become Available Globally
Nations around the world are racing to acquire COVID-19 vaccines and assemble digital infrastructure and web applications to enable appointment booking. As they do this, Imperva Research Labs has monitored a staggering 372% increase in bad bot traffic on healthcare websites globally since September 2020. In February 2021, bot traffic ... Read More
Questions to Ask Your Application Security Provider
There is a great deal to consider when evaluating application security providers. Understanding your goals will help. If your goal is vendor consolidation, then selecting those that offer multiple security capabilities over single products may make more sense. And if your goal is out-of-the-box functionality, then understanding the amount of ... Read More
The Evolution of Bad Bots from Grinchbots to Parasitic Bots-as-a-Service
The doomsday pandemic prediction is that you won’t be able to buy toilet paper because bad bots will have hoarded all the inventory and are offering it to the highest bidder on secondary markets at an exorbitant mark-up. The Gaming Console War The use of scalping bots was once the ... Read More
Holidays Are Coming – the State of Security for E-commerce in 2020
With the Coronavirus pandemic driving consumers online, a new report from Imperva reveals how this year’s holiday shopping season will present online retailers with a level of traffic – and cyber-attack threats – like they’ve never seen before. Among the many effects of COVID-19 has been a huge increase in ... Read More
Advanced Bot Protection Handling More Traffic Than Ever
It’s been six months since we launched the Advanced Bot Protection solution as fully integrated into Imperva’s Application Security platform. Previously, the Advanced Bot Protection solution lived on a separate platform, known as the ‘Distil’ platform, from our acquisition of Distil Networks. Existing Distil customers are quickly migrating to the ... Read More
Imperva Prevents Client-Side Attacks like Formjacking and Magecart
The Blindspot of Web Security is Client-side Code One of the troubling blindspots for security teams is third party JavaScript services embedded on a website. The popularity of JavaScript services used by developers and marketing teams means this blindspot is hiding an expanding attack service. If a web developer installs ... Read More
