Nanhi Singh and Paul J. Loftus appointed to lead Imperva through next phase of growth

Imperva, the cybersecurity leader championing the fight to secure data and applications wherever they reside, announced the appointment of Nanhi Singh as chief customer officer and Paul J. Loftus as chief revenue officer to lead the company through its… Continue reading Nanhi Singh and Paul J. Loftus appointed to lead Imperva through next phase of growth

Top 10 Breaches and Leaky Server Screw Ups of 2019

2019 was a banner year for data exposures, with billions of people affected by cloud misconfigurations, hacks and poor security practices in general. Here’s the Threatpost Top 10 for data-breach news of the year, featuring all the low-lights. Continue reading Top 10 Breaches and Leaky Server Screw Ups of 2019

Automated systems: Flag smarter, not everything

Imagine dealing with 1,000s of security alerts a day, whilst simultaneously juggling the tasks that are part of your day-to-day job. Challenging right? This is the current problem cybersecurity professionals are facing. Rather than making their jobs ea… Continue reading Automated systems: Flag smarter, not everything

Imperva planned to keep its CEO through a merger. Two months after a breach, he’s out.

Two months after Imperva disclosed a data breach, the CEO of the enterprise security company reportedly has resigned. Chris Hylen left his position on Oct. 21,. Hylen began in that role in August 2017, according to his LinkedIn page, and led the company to a reported $2.1 billion acquisition by Thoma Bravo, an American private equity firm. Imperva’s chairman, Charles Goodman, will assume the interim CEO position while the board seeks a permanent replacement, a company spokesperson said in a statement. “Effective Tuesday, October 22, 2019, Chris Hylen stepped down from his role as Chief Executive Officer,” athe spokesperson said. “This decision was made mutually by Mr. Hylen and the Thoma Bravo board.” The Israeli news outlet CTECH first reported the news. Imperva in August said that data belonging to customers of its cloud-based web application firewall product was exposed, resulting in the compromise of scrambled passwords, email addresses and SSL […]

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Imperva explains how their recent security incident happened

In late August, Imperva suffered a security incident, resulting in the compromise of sensitive information of some of their Cloud WAF (formerly Incapsula) customers. On Thursday, Imperva CTO Kunal Anand finally explained how it all happened. What happe… Continue reading Imperva explains how their recent security incident happened

Researchers analyzed 16.4 billion requests to see how bots affect e-commerce

The sophistication level of bots attacking e-commerce sites is on the rise, with nearly four-fifths (79.2 percent) classified as moderate or sophisticated, up from 75.8 percent in 2018, according to the Imperva report. The report analyzed 16.4 billion … Continue reading Researchers analyzed 16.4 billion requests to see how bots affect e-commerce

Cyber Security Roundup for August 2019

Twitter boss, Jack Doresy, had his Twitter account was hacked at the end of August, with hackers using his account to send a stream of offensive messages to his 4.2 million followers. It appears Jack was using his mobile phone to provide multi-factor a… Continue reading Cyber Security Roundup for August 2019