April 13, 2018 Application Security Robert Hamilton Securing Modern Web Applications: Threats and Types of Attacks Web Application Firewalls are the most advanced firewall capabilities available to IT teams. Deploying the appropriate WAF is important, especially these days when the security threat landscape is changing so...
March 27, 2018 Application Security Robert Hamilton Web Application Firewalls: The Definitive Primer Firewalls have traditionally been focused on network layer traffic. As attacks have evolved, however, they have climbed the ladder of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model. Web Application Firewalls (WAFs)...
December 7, 2017 Application Security Robert Hamilton The Forrester Wave Ranks Imperva as a Leader for DDoS Mitigation Providers Imperva has tracked the DDoS threat for some time now. Back in 2014 we saw the rise of DDoS botnets. In 2015, we revealed one of the first IoT-based DDoS...
November 17, 2017 Application Security Robert Hamilton Good Bots In. Bad Bots Out. More than half of Internet traffic today comes from bots. These non-human visitors crawl the web constantly, their numbers are increasing, and they are getting smarter and more human-like by...