Imperva discloses security incident affecting Cloud WAF customers

Imperva, the well-known California-based web application security company, has announced that it has suffered a “security incident” involving its Cloud Web Application Firewall (WAF) product, formerly known as Incapsula. What happened? The … Continue reading Imperva discloses security incident affecting Cloud WAF customers

Imperva Breach Exposes WAF Customers’ Data, Including SSL Certs, API Keys

Imperva, one of the leading cybersecurity startups that helps businesses protect critical data and applications from cyberattacks, has suffered a data breach that has exposed sensitive information for some of its customers, the company revealed today.
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Imperva says cloud firewall customers’ passwords were exposed

Security vendor Imperva on Tuesday revealed that data belonging to an unspecified number of customers of its cloud firewall product was exposed online. Email addresses and hashed and salted passwords from a database of its Cloud Web Application Firewall (WAF) customers were left exposed through September 15, 2017,  Imperva CEO Chris Hylen wrote in a blog post disclosing the incident. Additionally, the API keys and SSL certificates of some customers were exposed. The company found out about the incident last week thanks to an unnamed third party, he said. It is unclear to what extent, if any, hackers had accessed the exposed data. The company did not respond to a request for comment by press time. Imperva’s Cloud WAF counts the AARP, General Electric, and Siemens as customers, according to the company’s website. “We continue to investigate this incident around the clock and have stood up a global, cross-functional team,” Hylen wrote, adding […]

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Cybersecurity Firm Imperva Discloses Breach

Imperva, a leading provider of Internet firewall services that help Web sites block malicious cyberattacks, alerted customers on Tuesday that a recent data breach exposed email addresses, scrambled passwords, API keys and SSL certificates for a subset of its firewall users.

Redwood Shores, Calif.-based Imperva sells firewall technology designed to detect and block various types of malicious Web traffic, from denial-of-service attacks to digital probes aimed at undermining the security of Web-based software applications. Continue reading Cybersecurity Firm Imperva Discloses Breach

New infosec products of the week: June 21, 2019

Scytale Enterprise version 1.0 to scale service-to-service authentication Scytale released Scytale Enterprise 1.0, a SaaS platform that enables security and infrastructure engineers to standardize, scale, and accelerate service-to-service authenticatio… Continue reading New infosec products of the week: June 21, 2019

Imperva Application Security portfolio provides protection for any attack size

Imperva, the cybersecurity leader championing the fight to secure data and applications wherever they reside, announced significant enhancements to the Imperva Application Security portfolio, now offering targeted protection against account takeover (A… Continue reading Imperva Application Security portfolio provides protection for any attack size

Imperva to acquire Distil Networks to add bot mitigation to its offerings

Security vendor Imperva will acquire bot mitigation company Distil Networks to bolster its services amid a frenzied period of merger and acquisition activity in the cybersecurity market. Imperva announced Tuesday its executives have signed a deal that will result in Distil being folded into a comprehensive security platform, Imperva CEO Chris Hylen said in a statement. The company told CyberScoop the transaction has not yet closed, and at this time things remain business as usual for both companies. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Distil will continue to function and serve its customers while integration plans are implemented. “Distil Networks gives us a comprehensive bot management solution that identifies, responds to and manages a full range of automated attacks no matter whether there’s applications or APIs are deployed,” Hylen said. Imperva, founded in 2002, promises clients real-time activity monitoring, threat mitigation and risk management services. The company was acquired […]

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Build Bikes and Go Fast: Why Building Bikes is Critical to Imperva’s Success

In May 2019, seventy members of Imperva’s global leadership team gathered in one location to share insights, to develop and commit to our future strategy, and to build bikes. That’s right, to build bikes. Of course, that bit about developin… Continue reading Build Bikes and Go Fast: Why Building Bikes is Critical to Imperva’s Success