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.
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.
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.
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鈥檚 employees into the Imperva family and have started integrating their powerful, analyst-recognized Bot Management solution into our industry-leading Imperva Application Security offering.
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鈥檚 2018 Magic Quadrant for Web Application Firewalls (WAF).
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.
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.
American entertainer Will Rogers once famously said, 鈥渋t takes a lifetime to build a good reputation, but you can lose it in a minute.鈥 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.