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Hi Community I’m sure you are already aware but on December 1, 2023, Thales closed its acquisition of Imperva. We are excited about the possibilities ahead of us. Thales and Imperva have a shared value of putting the customer first and will lead with that customer obsession to provide the highest level of service to our customers. You can find more information here . We will continue to provide updates as we move through the integration process. For now, check out the video below for a very brief welcome message from Steve Walden , Global VP of Client Services at Thales. #AccountTakeOver ...
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Hi Community, I just wanted to take a moment to wish Happy Holidays to all who celebrate. I will be taking some time to rest and get ready for a super busy 2024. I can't wait. For those who will continue to be busy over the coming days and weeks, I hope you continue to find the answers you need here on Community. If not, feel free to open a support ticket. 2024 will kick off with some great live events, including a session for our customers in and around the APAC region. Be sure to sign up here . Thank you all for supporting Community during 2023. Happy Holidays and a prosperous New Year! #AllImperva
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Catch up on this great session with Rob Jammes , Director, Professional Services, and John Dougherty , Principal Security Consultant, Professional Services for this in depth look at API security and how Imperva can help you solve the mystery of Hidden APIs. The team looks at the challenges faced by Stan, an intrepid security engineer, discovering an active mystery during a web attack. Watch this session to ensure that you have the the skills and tools required to discover and manage hidden APIs... The team approaches this session by looking at the challenges faced by an intrepid security engineer discovering an active mystery ...
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Earlier this year Imperva announced its partnership with Kong , for enhanced API management. We were delighted to welcome leaders from Imperva and Kong to discuss how to enhance your API Management strategy with a range of API Security options. Catch up on this webinar with Mark Sivill , Senior Solutions Engineer at Kong and Luke Babarinde , Global Solutions Architect at Imperva to learn how you can discover, manage and protect your APIs without slowing down the speed of your business. This webinar will provide insights and practical guidance on how to strengthen your API strategy. Be sure to watch to the end to hear the team answer audience questions. ...
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I am delighted to introduce our newest Community Champion, @Luis Elola . Luis has been a member of community for just over one year. In this time, he has shared his extensive knowledge and asked questions that have added great value to our community. "The Imperva Community provides me with opportunities to socialize with cybersecurity colleagues, share experiences and learn from the ideas of others, taking my own knowledge to the next level of advising cybersecurity services and solutions, this in direct benefit to our clients and partners". Luis is based in Santiago, Chile and has been a Cybersecurity Product & Advisor Manager at ...
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APIsec Endpoint will only be available under the policy section if Automatic Integration is enabled before the endpoint is discovered and baselined. If Automatic Integration is enabled after endpoint is discovered and baselined, then endpoint will not be visible under the policy section and therefore the endpoint will not be protected by APIsec security policy. How to make APIsec endpoint appear in APIsec policy section. Disable the Automatic Integration and Save the configuration. Then enable the Automatic Integration and Save the configuration. After above steps, you should see the endpoint under APIsec policy and therefore it is ...
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APIsec Endpoints will get only discovered when all the below conditions are met In the API response, http status code should be between 2xx and 3xx. If http status code contains 1xx, 4xx or 5xx, then APIsec endpoints will not be discovered. If the Response body or Content-length of API response is <10000 bytes. Currently this is hard coded limit and cant be changed If Content-type indicates that response is an API response. Content-type for valid API response would be application/json, application/xml When all the above 3 conditions are matched, only then the API endpoints will be discovered. If API call satisfy all the above 3 criteria and ...
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Today, I’d like to talk about SYN cookies and how they can help protect your network from SYN and TCP floods, which are very harmful cyberattacks, cyberattacks on the Network layer 3/4. Have you ever experienced a situation where your network was bombarded with a lot of SYN and TCP flood attacks, causing problems like false alarms or making it hard to connect to your servers during these attacks? Don’t worry!! Our SYN cookies feature , which can be enabled by request, can come to the rescue. It’s designed to deal with these attacks effectively while keeping false alarms to a minimum. Let’s simplify what SYN cookies are: SYN cookies are often employed ...
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In some scenario customer might see custom certificate when they access their site, even when the custom certificate is not active for the site . Reason being the Imperva proxy first checks to see if a custom certificate was uploaded to the specific site. If one is not found, the proxy looks at other sites in the same account. If the proxy identifies a certificate uploaded to another site in same account that has a SAN corresponding to the site , then that custom certificate is used. However the above behavior is different for the websites onboarded to Imperva after October 20, 2021 , the proxy now selects a certificate in this order: The website's ...
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Sometimes, it's possible that when we create a rule on a site, for example at 14:00 SGT and the rule may catch and show the events from 12:00 SGT even before the rule was created. This behaviour is bit odd as the rule was catching the event which was created before the rule. Please see the screenshot below Please note that this is an expected behaviour of the WAF as the session from that particular IP is still active which is matching the rule syntax, hence, we can see the events generated from the rule even before the rule was created. #CloudWAF(formerlyIncapsula)
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It happens a few times that due to the Incaprule creation, the legitimate clients for example, Chrome etc., get misclassified as the Unknown bot or classified as a different client like Edge, etc gets blocked. It happen as the WAF couldn't classify the request correctly that leads to the misclassification of the client. The Client classification process is somewhat complex and multi-staged. It is based on various values from each request like headers, TLS signatures, and fingerprints. Hence, it may take a few more requests for clients to be fully classified by Imperva WAF. Num on Session filter will counts the number of requests received from the client ...
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We have seen a lot of cases where the client is getting challenged by Identify Eventually condition under Identify Directive but no blocks happens as it’s the Javascript Challenge by ABP to fingerprint the request. If this issue happens with the client, we can suggest to increase the thresholds for no_token to > 10 as it will give appropriate time for the request to fingerprint resolving the issue. Please note that this will work but not for the API endpoints. For the API endpoints, we need to Scope Out the path, therefore, we need to cross check with the client whether they are the API endpoints or not as the API endpoints cannot pass the ABP ...
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Hi, community, I am Ishita Jain, Senior SOC Engineer from the APJ Cloud WAF team at Imperva. One of my key areas of focus is helping our customers mitigate attacks at Layer 7 as well as Layer 3/4. I am grateful to Imperva to give me an opportunity to share my knowledge in video form (an easy and preferred way to learn for many of us). I am here to talk about how Imperva defines a custom security policy for each DDoS Protection for Networks customer network range, and how the policy impacts our mitigation process . I hope this will help you strengthen the security posture of your application/Domain. I'd love to hear your ...
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Hi, community, I am Ishita Jain, Senior SOC Engineer from the APJ Cloud WAF team at Imperva. One of my key areas of focus is helping our customers mitigate attacks at Layer 7 as well as Layer 3/4. I am grateful to Imperva to give me an opportunity to share my knowledge in video form (an easy and preferred way to learn for many of us). I am here talking about our Network DDoS Analytic Dashboard which is one of our powerful tools for our DDoS protection for networks and IPs customers, which helps to see top traffic patterns for the DDoS traffic on the network that was blocked by Imperva or clean traffic that was routed through Imperva and ...
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At the moment we cannot block the destination port as we don't have any specific filter for this. This can be achieved by using the filter Header Value. Please see the following rule HeaderValue != {"host";"varularora.com:443"} : This rule will block all the connections to the site user3.incaptest.net expect the port 443. When we try to add the rule, the rule will be added like in the screenshot below. #CloudWAF(formerlyIncapsula)
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When we are testing the requests via postman to the any site, for instance say, user3.soccloudwaf.com, we get the 200 OK response. (Please see the screenshot below) By default, Postman send Auto Generated Headers, when we deselect the HOST option and send the request, then we get the incident id 0-random_numbers wit 503 Error. (Please see the screenshot below) This incident ID does not include session information (the session part of the incident ID in this case is 0.) The 0 indicates that this was a session-less incident, which means that the request was halted on Imperva's side. These type of incidents cannot be trace ...
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End of Sale Notice for Imperva App Protect Essentials Subscriptions Customers who are currently on a App Protect Essentials subscription plan received an End of Sale (EOS) notice via email today. Below is a summary of the announcement, as well as a FAQ. If you have any questions, please contact your Account Executive or sales@imperva.com . What’s Changing Effective December 31, 2023, new or renewed subscriptions as well as bandwidth upgrades of App Protect Essentials will no longer be available for purchase. Additionally, Enterprise Services for App Protect Essentials will no longer be available. What Happens Next On ...
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End of Sale Notice for Incapsula Enterprise Subscriptions Customers who are currently on a Incapsula Enterprise subscription plan received an End of Sale (EOS) notice via email today. Below is a summary of the announcement, as well as a FAQ. If you have any questions, please contact your Account Executive or sales@imperva.com What’s Changing Effective December 31, 2023, renewals of Incapsula Enterprise subscriptions as well as bandwidth upgrades and site additions will no longer be available for purchase. Additionally, the corresponding Managed Services for Incapsula subscriptions will no longer be available. What Happens ...
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Imperva recommendation When you Unselect a Good bot from a good bot list, the request from those good bots will be treated like a regular request which means it may or may not be blocked . To categorize further on the request level in terms of bot categories or type of bots then configure the WAF log integration to your SIEM solution. (https://docs.imperva.com/bundle/cloud-application-security/page/settings/client-classification.htm) If you do not suspect customers to come from a particular client type then you can present those client types with Captcha to restrict only human traffic . Enabling the " Require ...
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When onboarding an application onto Imperva Cloud Waf setting the correct DDoS value may be key to a good user experience. The DDoS value by default is 1000 requests per second (rps) however as a default the value is quite arbitrary for a busy site this may be too low and for a quite site an attack may just slip under the radar. From this you may ask two important questions. How do I set the correct value? What is the impact of an incorrect value? How do I set the correct value? The value for a DDoS threshold should be greater that the average traffic usage. Opinions vary as to its value some suggesting between 125% ...
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