Imperva Blogs

Concern over Coronavirus Leading to Global Spread of Fake Pharmacy Spam

High levels of concern around the Coronavirus are currently being used to increase the online popularity of spam campaigns designed to spread fake news and drive unsuspecting users to dubious online drug stores. Read More

What Weak Spots Could DDoS Strike to Impact the US Election?

The recent takedown of Dyn DNS services, which caused major websites and services to become unavailable to many millions of users in Europe and North America, showed just how disruptive a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack can be. Read More

How Account Takeover Botnets Outsmart Traditional Security Controls

Account Takeover (ATO) describes when an online account is accessed and/ or used by someone other than its legitimate owner, usually for malicious purposes. Account Takeover attacks happen when an attacker is trying to get unauthorized access to an account or when the account has already been compromised and the attacker uses the account for a malicious purpose, such as unauthorized access or data theft. Read More

A New Chapter in Bot Management Begins Today

I am excited to share that we have closed the acquisition of Distil Networks, the pioneer and leader in Bot Management. Over the past few weeks, we have been welcoming Distil’s employees into the Imperva family and have started integrating their powerful, analyst-recognized Bot Management solution into our industry-leading Imperva Application Security offering. Watch Now

Imperva to Acquire Distil Networks, the Leader in Bot Management

As an established leader in cybersecurity, Imperva provides our customers the most comprehensive, analyst-recognized application security solution on the market. We are a five-time leader in Gartner’s 2018 Magic Quadrant for Web Application Firewalls (WAF). Read More

9 Recommendations to Prevent Bad Bots on Your Website

Bots are on your website every day so how should you protect yourself? Every site is targeted for different reasons, and usually by different methods, so there is no one-size-fits-all bot defense solution. But there are some proactive steps you can take to start addressing the problem. Read More

Imperva Launches the Cyber Threat Index

Today, we are proud to announce the launch of the Cyber Threat Index, a new online information portal from the minds of our threat researchers at Imperva Research Labs. The current Cyber Threat Index is 776. This is categorized as High and is up 8 percent since December. Read More

Reputation Intelligence At Your Fingertips

American entertainer Will Rogers once famously said, “it takes a lifetime to build a good reputation, but you can lose it in a minute.” Our reputations are valuable commodities that establish rapport and clout among our colleagues, partners, and customers. A good reputation can go a long way in establishing trust, credibility, and confidence in a relationship. Read More