Major Global Ransom Denial of Service Campaign Continues Rising Trend in Global DDoS Attacks
Extortionists Claim Connection to Fancy Bear and Lazarus Group In the past weeks the number of serious Ransom Denial of Service (RDoS) threats has ramped-up considerably, with extortion campaigns targeting thousands of large commercial organizations including financial services. Coming from extortionists leveraging the names of well-known threat actor groups such ... Read More
Putting Your Data Security at the Center of our Mission
We’re more than just an industry-leading Web Application Firewall! For a long time now, Imperva has been known in the cyber security industry as ‘the WAF company’. The go-to brand for Application Security and Web Application Firewalls. But this is only possible due to our data protection DNA. This has ... Read More
Top Security and Data Privacy Regulations for Financial Services
Regulatory compliance has become an increasingly more important part of the financial services industry in recent years. And it’s a trend that’s likely to continue due to the upsurge in cloud computing, the use of mobile applications, and a shift to IoT devices, all of which are driving exponential data ... Read More
How bad bots are targeting the healthcare sector
Credential cracking, or password spraying, is one of the most effective ways for cybercriminals to get access to user accounts. It refers to the brute-force automated cracking, or pairing of usernames and passwords by using sophisticated high-speed bots. According to a National Cyber Awareness report from May 2020, cybersecurity agencies ... Read More
Open Banking Around the World
Open Banking, the practice of sharing financial data with competitors and third parties via open APIs, offers many benefits for consumers who not only have more control over their data, but who can now manage their finances a whole lot better. What started with the European Union Payment Services Directive ... Read More
How Imperva Advanced Mesh Topology Keeps Canadian Data In-Country
The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) is a Canadian federal law that sets out how organizations can collect, use and disclose personal information in the course of commercial activity. While PIPEDA does not prohibit the transfer of personal information outside of Canada, it requires organizations to provide ... Read More
Cloud Compliance – A Top Challenge for organizations
Regulatory compliance violations are among the top three biggest Cloud Application Security challenges for organizations, according to the CyberEdge Group’s ‘2020 Cyberthreat Defense Report’. Equally concerning are ‘Limitations of cloud service provider’s security tools’ which come in joint second place with ‘Loss or theft of data and intellectual property’, as ... Read More
New Cyber Threat Index Shows Industries Are Under Attack in Uncertain Times
It has been more than a month since businesses around the world started to implement contingencies in response to the Coronavirus. The Cyber Threat Index Report by Imperva Research Labs tracks changes in traffic and attack trends across multiple industries and countries. This month’s edition looks at how COVID-19 is ... Read More
Imperva Boosts Capacity to Meet Demand in Malaysia
Imperva is enhancing support for its customers in Asia by increasing capacity at its PoP in Kuala Lumpur (KL), Malaysia. Home to hundreds of multinational companies, KL’s thriving high-tech economy and strong financial center positions it well as a global hot-spot for business. Imperva is boosting its services at its ... Read More
Deploy a Cloud WAF & DDoS Solution While Complying with Australian Data Sovereignty
Australia has strict data sovereignty laws in place to ensure that personal customer data remains within the country’s borders. However, we often hear about cloud-based WAF vendors being unable to guarantee that data will not be moved across borders for inspection and data logging purposes. This may prevent some organizations ... Read More
