A Their Story conversation with Sean Martin, Marco Ciappelli, and Imperva

Bad bots mask themselves and attempt to interact with applications in the same way a legitimate user would, making them harder to detect and block. They enable high-speed abuse, misuse, and attacks on your websites, mobile apps, and APIs. They allow bot operators, attackers, unsavory competitors, and fraudsters to perform a wide array of malicious activities.

Such activities include web scraping, competitive data mining, personal and financial data harvesting, brute-force login, digital ad fraud, denial of service, denial of inventory, spam, transaction fraud, and more.

This is a 2-part podcast series with Imperva. In this series, we get to speak with Ryan Windham VP of Application Security at Imperva, to look at the findings in the report from two angles. Be sure to catch both episodes to get both perspectives.

A Their Story conversation with Imperva fellow, Terry Ray.

Consumers worry about sharing data online, yet most feel they have “no choice” but to share their data if they want to use online services. It's a catch 22 — and it is not a bus.

Trust is waning. A majority of consumers, globally, say that trust in the many digital service providers’ ability to keep their personal data secure has decreased over the past five years.

Still, despite serious concerns, most consumers share their darkest secrets online via cloud messaging services even though they recognize there would be repercussions for them if the information they shared was leaked.

No question, it's a catch 22. But what do we do? That's the catch. Again.

Have a listen to learn more about the connections and responsibilities between consumers and the businesses they rely upon to live their digital lives.

A Their Story conversation with Imperva fellow, Terry Ray.

Data Security is often seen as the “scary” or “intimidating” domain of security. And, yet, it’s needed more than ever before.

Historically, it’s a domain of security that is typically found in highly regulated industries. However, data is the currency of the modern economy and the fuel behind nearly every organization. Business large and small collect, create, store, manipulate, and share data that is sensitive in nature and valuable to cybercriminals.

2022 must be the year where data security becomes attainable for all. The solution to the problem can't be bigger than the problem itself. And, the problem can't be defined as dealing with it in real-time. It's important we use data to protect the data, getting ahead of the threat.

A Their Story conversation with Imperva executive, Kunal Anand and research analyst, Mitch Ashley

With the cloud computing revolution, everything seems to be — and, in many cases, certainly is — more accessible to business and their innovations. But, as we often say, the fundaments of cybersecurity best practices remain, and we cannot allow the race for more to lower our security postures.

Join us for this conversation as our guests — technologist and innovator Kunal Anand and technology and industry analyst Mitch Ashley — take us on a journey down the river and through the multi- and hybrid clouds as we look at the past and present and future of cloud services and information security.

A Their Story conversation with Sean Martin, Marco Ciappelli, and Imperva executives

As digital consumers, we need APIs to beckon mobile apps and access the digital services we love. But, for companies, it's a new dimension of risk that many aren't prepared for. In part, because it's not always clear: who's responsible for securing the APIs?

Perhaps it's the engineers/developers. Maybe it's the InfoSec team. In some instances, there's a dedicated AppSec team that oversees this activity. Sometimes it's a combo of this group. But, unfortunately, because of the lack of clarity, sometimes it's nobody.

To help bring clarity to the chaos, we had Kunal Anand, CTO at Imperva, join us to help understand what organizations are up against and then help them find ways to operationalize API security.