Imperva Cyber Community

People want to connect with other people that are working on similar projects, have similar jobs, use the same products and more. Let's talk about this. To get you started, answer as many questions as you see fit, but try to answer at least two of them. Or add your own commentary. Let's do this. 

1. What is your role at your company?
2. Do you use Imperva products? If so, which ones? 
3. What do you hope to get out of the community? (product related answers to questions, peer to peer networking, etc..)
4. What does your security architecture look like? (yes, a tough one, but very interesting)
5. If you have an Imperva product, what problem are you trying to solve with the product? 

This should be good enough to get some conversations started. #LetsGo! 


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#AllImperva

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Christopher Detzel
Community Manager
Imperva
Dallas TX
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Hello,

I am Sabajete. I am a system engineer at S&T Albania. I mostly assist our clients with Imperva DAM. Apart from technical issues, that usually are solved with the support I hope with this community we can share experiences and best practices. One of "challanges" I faced was when the client asks for suggestions on security or audit policies. Or what should they audit, what should let go etc. (Consulting)
Technically I am having issues with a client that uses CAS (https://apereo.github.io/cas/6.1.x/index.html) and wants to deploy user tracking, which I am not sure even if Imperva supports it.  

Well, thats it :)

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Sabajete Elezaj
SNT Albania
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@Sabajete Elezaj That's great. You seem to have a ton of knowledge around DAM. You have asked a ton of great questions already. I will see if I can help you find an answer to you CAS question. If you have specifics I would actually create another question around it HERE. The more details the better.  ​

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Christopher Detzel
Community Manager
Imperva
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Original Message:
Sent: 11-23-2019 11:25
From: Sabajete Elezaj
Subject: Who are you? Users want to know! Post about who you are.

Hello,

I am Sabajete. I am a system engineer at S&T Albania. I mostly assist our clients with Imperva DAM. Apart from technical issues, that usually are solved with the support I hope with this community we can share experiences and best practices. One of "challanges" I faced was when the client asks for suggestions on security or audit policies. Or what should they audit, what should let go etc. (Consulting)
Technically I am having issues with a client that uses CAS (https://apereo.github.io/cas/6.1.x/index.html) and wants to deploy user tracking, which I am not sure even if Imperva supports it.  

Well, thats it :)

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Sabajete Elezaj
SNT Albania
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Hi Guys,

I am Alex, and I recently got an assignment to manage our Imperva setup. Hope the community can help me get a good start and learn Imperva's functionalities and practical use.

Here are my answer to 2 questions posted.

• What is your role at your company? I am a DBA and at the same time also managing Imperva Monitoring
• What do you hope to get out of the community? I have 0 knowledge on Imperva, hope the community can help me get up to speed in managing this tool appropriately.

That's it. Have a nice day!

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Alex Aguilas
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Nice to meet you @Alex Aguilas! Here are some things that could help you with #Database Activity Monitoring. First and foremost, when you have a question, please ask it HERE. We have partners, employees and other users of the Imperva product that will help you. Don't be shy! 

Also, we have a great docs site that could help you get started. We are continuting to add more content, so feel free to give us some feedback of things that would be helpful. 

Commonly asked Community discussion questions

• Agent Installation in Oracle Database "Oracle Multitenant"
• What to suggest to client, for agent throughput optimization?
• Agent Monitoring Database User Exclution

Community Blogs: 

• Understanding Database - DAM - agents
• Why is a Database Restart Required for an AIX Agent?
• Why should I Consider a DAM Cluster?
• Why Imperva Requires Reserving Resources for Virtual Deployments

Documentation site: 
Working with Database Activity Monitoring​​​ (this site should help you a lot. We have tons of documentation here from setup, configuration, managing reports and more.)

1. Setup the product
2. Discover servers and classify data
3. Manage user rights

I hope you find this information helpful!

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Christopher Detzel
Community Manager
Imperva
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Original Message:
Sent: 11-25-2019 21:02
From: Alex Aguilas
Subject: Who are you? Users want to know! Post about who you are.

Hi Guys,

I am Alex, and I recently got an assignment to manage our Imperva setup. Hope the community can help me get a good start and learn Imperva's functionalities and practical use.

Here are my answer to 2 questions posted.

• What is your role at your company? I am a DBA and at the same time also managing Imperva Monitoring
• What do you hope to get out of the community? I have 0 knowledge on Imperva, hope the community can help me get up to speed in managing this tool appropriately.

That's it. Have a nice day!

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Alex Aguilas
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Hello,

I am working as a Database Administrator in IHIS and I am new to DAM environment.
We are currently implementing Imperva DAM in our company.
I will use this platform to clarify my product related doubts.
Initially it was bit tough to understand the DAM Architecture, but now I can understand it propoerly.
I am trying to find out the suspecious logins using Imperva DAM product.

Anyway It's nice to connect with all of the Imperva professionals. Thanks.

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Mayuranathan Palanichamy
IHIS
Singapore
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Hello All,
I am Rakesh and new to Imperva product DAM.

Hi Christopher,
Happy to reply to your below questions and hope to interact with you in this community.

What is your role at your company?
DBA and DAM Administrator.

Do you use Imperva products? If so, which ones?
Yes, Started working with DAM Product recently.

What do you hope to get out of the community? (product related answers to questions,
peer to peer networking, etc..)
More interaction with people using the same product in order to enhance my knowledge in DAM and help others in the community.

Thanks,
Rakesh

Hi Everyone,
  I'm Bob,  ​I have about 7 years of working with Imperva DAM.  
Initially with hardware appliances in multiple datacenters, then swapped to >100 virtual appliances with clustering and a SOM.
I'm at a different company now, with a smaller environment but still monitoring databases for compliance.

1. What is your role at your company?
   • I'm a CyberSecurity Engineer responsible for our DAM deployment.
   • My background is mainframe programming, datacenter infrastructure, OSes, and databases.
2. Do you use Imperva products? If so, which ones? 
   • DAM, DRA
3. What do you hope to get out of the community?
   • How other people are solving problems
   • Providing suggestions on how to solve problems.

People want to connect with other people that are working on similar projects, have similar jobs, use the same products and more. Let's talk about this. To get you started, answer as many questions as you see fit, but try to answer at least two of them. Or add your own commentary. Let's do this. 

1. What is your role at your company?

         Senior Security Officer

1. Do you use Imperva products? If so, which ones? 

         DBF / WAF / Incapsula / Counterbreach  (presales support and implementation)

1. What do you hope to get out of the community? (product related answers to questions, peer to peer networking, etc..)

          Helping the community!

1. What does your security architecture look like? (yes, a tough one, but very interesting)

          In my previous work, Im used to have 10 plus clients, so, a lot of different architecures.

1. If you have an Imperva product, what problem are you trying to solve with the product?

          Almost any imperva problem, It can be solved reading the documentation and open a support case.

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Andres Moore
Globant
Santiago
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Hi everybody

my name is Martin, I am based in Germany. I used to work for Imperva some time ago, since 2017 I am happily self employed as IT Security Consultant. I do (Imperva)-trainings and technical consulting. Besides Imperva I support SonicWall Products and do general IT Security trainings.

1. What is your role at your company? (Finally) I am the boss :-)
2. Do you use Imperva products? If so, which ones? I mainly support on-premise WAF & DAM
3. What do you hope to get out of the community? (product related answers to questions, peer to peer networking, etc..) I am very happy that Imperva set this forum up and I want to see what kind of problems others run into and how they are solved.
4. What does your security architecture look like? (yes, a tough one, but very interesting)  I have many customers with different architectures. The biggest environment I had the pleasure to work with as a technical project lead was an environment with 10 gateways in 2 DC's.
5. If you have an Imperva product, what problem are you trying to solve with the product? Add more security!

Looking forward for some really cool technical discussions!

Cheers
Martin

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Martin Schmitz
Martin Schmitz IT Security Consulting
Korschenbroich
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This is a very good thread to have. Usually some of the best ideas come from when everyone openly discusses how they do things, and maybe that could trigger a different way to think about or approach a solution to a problem.  

1. What is your role at your company? I am the primary Imperva/Incapsula administrator and we use WAF product very very heavily (several hundred applications all developed by different users in different ways using different frameworks and/or OTS applications). I have been working with Imperva WAFs for about 8 years now. We are one of the largest government entities in the United States, and only fall behind the federal government, a couple of state governments, and New York City in sheer volume of constituents served, budget required (at a County scale, not at the security level :( ), and programs administered. Because of this we have a very diverse set of users/developers in various industries (health services of various kinds, public works, GIS, children and family services, tax and auditing, voting and registrations, etc.). 
2. Do you use Imperva products? If so, which ones? SecureSphere WAF and Incapsula products.
3. What do you hope to get out of the community? (product related answers to questions, peer to peer networking, etc..) As mentioned, hopefully some of us can connect and share ideas, solutions, etc. to learn from each other, offer suggestions, and better secure all of our environments.
4. What does your security architecture look like? (yes, a tough one, but very interesting) We have layered Imperva products, which now are the Incapsula Cloud with several features available to the cloud, all of which flow into our SecureSphere WAFs for more advanced processing and rule sets. 
5. If you have an Imperva product, what problem are you trying to solve with the product? Our primary focus is on protecting the developers from themselves and from the attackers, complying with internal regulations and policies, and adding security to our web application framework.

i would be very open to questions and discussions about problems others have faced and how they solved them, and in return helping others if I have experienced or solved an issue in our environment. We are pushing a lot of applications into Cloud providers now, so I would be extremely interested in how others who are going through Cloud migrations may be handling their environments (including using Incapsula/Imperva cloud or virtual SecureSphere appliances, API development around Incapsula/Imperva cloud, etc.).

#LetsGo! 

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Jason Park
County of Los Angeles
CA
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@Jason Park Love this! My goal is to make connections happen within this community. In about a month, the community will have a dashboard that shows up. When you login to the site, users can add specific products and other items to the dashboard. Once I get some of that information into the backend of the community, I will be able to easily connect others that have the same products.  ​It will look similar, but not limited to the attached. 



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Christopher Detzel
Community Manager
Imperva
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Original Message:
Sent: 02-14-2020 12:12
From: Jason Park
Subject: Who are you? Users want to know! Post about who you are.

This is a very good thread to have. Usually some of the best ideas come from when everyone openly discusses how they do things, and maybe that could trigger a different way to think about or approach a solution to a problem.  

1. What is your role at your company? I am the primary Imperva/Incapsula administrator and we use WAF product very very heavily (several hundred applications all developed by different users in different ways using different frameworks and/or OTS applications). I have been working with Imperva WAFs for about 8 years now. We are one of the largest government entities in the United States, and only fall behind the federal government, a couple of state governments, and New York City in sheer volume of constituents served, budget required (at a County scale, not at the security level :( ), and programs administered. Because of this we have a very diverse set of users/developers in various industries (health services of various kinds, public works, GIS, children and family services, tax and auditing, voting and registrations, etc.). 
2. Do you use Imperva products? If so, which ones? SecureSphere WAF and Incapsula products.
3. What do you hope to get out of the community? (product related answers to questions, peer to peer networking, etc..) As mentioned, hopefully some of us can connect and share ideas, solutions, etc. to learn from each other, offer suggestions, and better secure all of our environments.
4. What does your security architecture look like? (yes, a tough one, but very interesting) We have layered Imperva products, which now are the Incapsula Cloud with several features available to the cloud, all of which flow into our SecureSphere WAFs for more advanced processing and rule sets. 
5. If you have an Imperva product, what problem are you trying to solve with the product? Our primary focus is on protecting the developers from themselves and from the attackers, complying with internal regulations and policies, and adding security to our web application framework.

i would be very open to questions and discussions about problems others have faced and how they solved them, and in return helping others if I have experienced or solved an issue in our environment. We are pushing a lot of applications into Cloud providers now, so I would be extremely interested in how others who are going through Cloud migrations may be handling their environments (including using Incapsula/Imperva cloud or virtual SecureSphere appliances, API development around Incapsula/Imperva cloud, etc.).

#LetsGo! 

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Jason Park
County of Los Angeles
CA
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That is a great idea! Keep us posted :)

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Jason Park
County of Los Angeles
CA
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Original Message:
Sent: 02-14-2020 13:25
From: Christopher Detzel
Subject: Who are you? Users want to know! Post about who you are.

@Jason Park Love this! My goal is to make connections happen within this community. In about a month, the community will have a dashboard that shows up. When you login to the site, users can add specific products and other items to the dashboard. Once I get some of that information into the backend of the community, I will be able to easily connect others that have the same products.  ​It will look similar, but not limited to the attached. 

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Christopher Detzel
Community Manager
Imperva
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Original Message:
Sent: 02-14-2020 12:12
From: Jason Park
Subject: Who are you? Users want to know! Post about who you are.

This is a very good thread to have. Usually some of the best ideas come from when everyone openly discusses how they do things, and maybe that could trigger a different way to think about or approach a solution to a problem.  

1. What is your role at your company? I am the primary Imperva/Incapsula administrator and we use WAF product very very heavily (several hundred applications all developed by different users in different ways using different frameworks and/or OTS applications). I have been working with Imperva WAFs for about 8 years now. We are one of the largest government entities in the United States, and only fall behind the federal government, a couple of state governments, and New York City in sheer volume of constituents served, budget required (at a County scale, not at the security level :( ), and programs administered. Because of this we have a very diverse set of users/developers in various industries (health services of various kinds, public works, GIS, children and family services, tax and auditing, voting and registrations, etc.). 
2. Do you use Imperva products? If so, which ones? SecureSphere WAF and Incapsula products.
3. What do you hope to get out of the community? (product related answers to questions, peer to peer networking, etc..) As mentioned, hopefully some of us can connect and share ideas, solutions, etc. to learn from each other, offer suggestions, and better secure all of our environments.
4. What does your security architecture look like? (yes, a tough one, but very interesting) We have layered Imperva products, which now are the Incapsula Cloud with several features available to the cloud, all of which flow into our SecureSphere WAFs for more advanced processing and rule sets. 
5. If you have an Imperva product, what problem are you trying to solve with the product? Our primary focus is on protecting the developers from themselves and from the attackers, complying with internal regulations and policies, and adding security to our web application framework.

i would be very open to questions and discussions about problems others have faced and how they solved them, and in return helping others if I have experienced or solved an issue in our environment. We are pushing a lot of applications into Cloud providers now, so I would be extremely interested in how others who are going through Cloud migrations may be handling their environments (including using Incapsula/Imperva cloud or virtual SecureSphere appliances, API development around Incapsula/Imperva cloud, etc.).

#LetsGo! 

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Jason Park
County of Los Angeles
CA

Hello Christopher,

I am Tushar , Currently working as security analyst in IBM. India.

• What is your role at your company? -- Security Analyst
• Do you use Imperva products? If so, which ones? --- Yes, Imperva WAF (securesphere)
• What do you hope to get out of the community? (product related answers to questions, peer to peer networking, etc..) --- Product related answers and most important if there is any vacancy related to Imperva WAF .
• What does your security architecture look like? (yes, a tough one, but very interesting) --- Normal
• If you have an Imperva product, what problem are you trying to solve with the product? -- unsupported cipher issue.

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Tushar Sawant
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Hello

I am Doreen. I am a Network Information Security Engineer with Vodafone Ghana

We are currently using Imperva WAF to protect our web applications.​

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Doreen Ayensu Aidoo
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Hi Christopher,
Thanks to accept me in Imperva Community Group.
Here below few words about myself:

What is your role at your company?
I am a Regional Sales Manager At DataGroupIT, a sole Imperva Ditributor for Africa.
Do you use Imperva products? If so, which ones? 
We do sell Imperva Solutions for DAM, WAF,  FlexProtect, etc.
What do you hope to get out of the community? (product related answers to questions, peer to peer networking, etc..)
We expect to increase the add value to our partners in the ground and help them to address the right imperva message to the market. Product highlights, case study, sales elevator pitch, customer success experience, etc.
What does your security architecture look like? (yes, a tough one, but very interesting)
What i can say is that our Cyber Security awareness in Africa is very low and we are plenty of oportunity to leverage Imperva as the solution for Data and DataBase Protection.
If you have an Imperva product, what problem are you trying to solve with the product?
I do sell Imperva to our Imperva Partners and from there to our customers. Most of them are happy customers looking for upgrades and continue business with us.

Regards
Hugo Recchimuzzi

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Hugo Recchimuzzi
DataGroupIT
Johannesburg GRO
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Hello people

My name is Sebastian Zapata, I've been working with Imperva for 7 years and I work as a Security Consultant on ETEK International in Bogota, Colombia,

What is your role at your company?
I am a Securtiy Consultant and my principal labours are Hardening Platforms, Help customer to join to the cloud, pre-sales products, and SOC2.0 strategy.
Do you use Imperva products? If so, which ones? 
Yes i do, we sold all Imperva Suit and I know about DAM, WAF an FAM on premises and cloud. Recently we are working on new felxprotect model (App and Data security)
What do you hope to get out of the community? (product related answers to questions, peer to peer networking, etc..)
To get more knowledge of others experiences.

Best regards!

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Sebastian Zapata
ETEK International
Bogota
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Hello,

1. What is your role at your company? i'm Information security Engineer at M.Tech Solutions India Pvt Ltd and We are the value added Distributor of Imperva
2. Do you use Imperva products? If so, which ones? Yes, I'm  part of Pre & Post Sales Technical team, I'm working on few DAM,WAF projects 
3. What do you hope to get out of the community? (product related answers to questions, peer to peer networking, etc..) hope I will get the best answers from Community and product knowledge
4. What does your security architecture look like? (yes, a tough one, but very interesting), initially it was tough, after deployments, now it's very easy to understand the workflow 
5. If you have an Imperva product, what problem are you trying to solve with the product? almost issues can be fix from the Imperva Documents

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Shashidhar MR
M.Tech Solutions India Pvt Ltd
Bengaluru
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I am Ben. I am a Sales Executive at Evvolabs (a partner company in Singapore). I am part of a team here in the Philippines to promote Imperva products specifically the cloud-based ones. I joined this community to ramp up my knowledge of Imperva's products. My initial navigation within the community has already resulted in a couple of assets which we will be showcasing to our prospective clients.

Wish us luck!

Stay Safe everyone.

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Ben Izra Dacudao
Sales Executive
Evvolabs
Quezon City
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Hi guys,
i'm Rocco and i'm security analyst. I work in Imperva Dam environment. I have a little knowledge and  join with this community to share best practices, experience and to improve my know-how. 
That's it. Have a nice day!

Rocco Bassani
Consulthink S.p.a.

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Rocco Bassani
Consulthink S.p.a.
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Hi All,

I am Nikhil (Niks) from India and working in Malaysia. I am working with Prudential Services Asia as Application Security Specialist where basically i am leading the Incapsula operations and also doing DevSecOps stuff !! I have been using Imperva products when i first started my career in InfoSec. I have used Imperva on prem WAF and DAM solutions and i must say, it is indeed a Gartner leader for a reason. Hopefully i will be able to contribute to the community and also expecting some networking.

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Nikhil Chodankar
Prudential Services Asia
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Hi, I'm Derek from Secure Source Distribution. We are the local distributor for Imperva in Malaysia for more than 10 years. We promote all Imperva solutions like WAF, DAM, Incapsula, FlexProtect, RASP and ABP. We do have sales team and pre & post sales team to support our customers in Malaysia. By joining this community, i hope to ramp up my Imperva knowledge and get more updated information. It's my pleasure to be part of the community and be connected!

Derek Wong
Product Manager
Secure Source Distribution

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Derek Wong
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Hi,

My name is Lucky, I am still new in the Imperva DAM space. We have deployed the Imperva securesphare DAM and DRA. I hope to  get some  guidelines on where to get resources for a beginner like myself. 

regards, 
Lucky Mphelo


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Lucky Mphelo
SARB
Tshwane SIN
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Hi Lucky, 

Please refer to the documentation portal.
It helps!. 

Here is the link. 
https://docs.imperva.com

Regards,
Rakesh

Hi All,

I am Simon and Technical Lead for Business Operations at Booking.com Transport Buisness Unit. Have been a Distil customer for a number of years and have been making great use of connector over the last few months to protect us.

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Simon Gunton
Rentalcars.com
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Hello!  I am Wendy Sahli, Director of Technology for the Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society (RAPS) and we have the Incapsula Enterprise 20 subscription with firewall and CDN.  We recently

I'm hoping to learn more about utilizing the Imperva products to further secure our website due to our newly increased web profile.  We are a nonprofit with a membership of regulatory professionals working primarily in pharma and medical devices.  Recently our news has become extremely popular, leading to us becoming a recent target of a level 7 DDOS attack.  With Incapsula's support, we were able to contain and remove the threat to our site within 12 hours which is incredible!  Our site is in the Azure cloud, with Incapsula CDN with the Kentico CMS.

I have worked in nonprofits for over 18 years managing technology, originally as a web developer myself and now the entire department.  I'm on the ASAE Tech Council (2020 and now 2021) and I look forward to hearing from other nonprofits and learning from the experts!

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Wendy Sahli
Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society
Rockville MD
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My name is Chris Richardson, i am an independent consultant and my company is Emerging Networks, Inc.  I have implemented several hundred WAF, DAM and Imperva Cloud WAF for public, private and governmental agencies worldwide.  I am also a customer of Imperva Cloud WAF for my other venture called Approvalexperts.com.

As a ProServ consultant, I am challenged daily with various architectures, configurations and expectations from my customers on product functionality and capability.  I need to stay updated on the product suite and the Community is a valuable source of direct information for questions I cannot readily find in the documentation.  I also benefit from the relative knowledge from direct sources within Imperva.

As far as my use of the product, I know the capability of the Imperva products compared to other competing products and have used the WAF products to stop some large- scale attacks in some of the largest companies and most vulnerable environments.  The DAM readily provides important information, as soon as we implement it, that helps to identify or prevent attack vectors within organizations and even help DBAs improve the database by identifying weaknesses in the environment.

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Christopher Richardson
Emerging Networks, LLC
Royal palm beach FL
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