Reducing the Risk Bad Bots Pose to your Application Security

According to the 2022 Imperva Bad Bot Report, 27.7% of online traffic came from bad bots. For retail websites, it’s 23.6%. Bots routinely target retail sites with scalping and denial of inventory attacks, as well as fraud, gift card fraud, and account takeovers. The problem that many organizations are facing today is how to distinguish…

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The Threat of Rogue Mobile Apps to Retail and Hospitality Brands

Mobile apps can serve as a convenient way for your customers to do business with you from their smartphones, but just like criminals can attempt to spoof your domains, they can also spoof your mobile app, even if you don’t have one. Rogue mobile apps are applications that use a trusted brand name to steal…

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Preventing Data Breaches with API Security Best Practices

APIs have become increasingly prevalent in the last few years as companies have begun to focus on digital transformation and migration to the cloud. APIs are a large part of what makes the cloud possible. They’re used to access and manage our cloud resources and connect microservices to build our applications. As developers grew to…

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Enabling Secure CI/CD via Application Security Awareness Training

When you think “security awareness,” the first thing that comes to mind is likely the training you provide non-security staff related to persistent threats like phishing. While this type of training will always be important, it is also becoming necessary to augment traditional programs with specialized application security awareness training for your CI/CD-related teams as…

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Enabling DevSecOps to Shift Left with the Proper Application Security Tools

Over the past few years, DevSecOps has become a buzzword in application security. You may understand the concept — security is integrated into your continuous integration/continuous delivery pipeline to find and fix vulnerabilities earlier in the software development lifecycle — but how do you actually implement DevSecOps? One of the keys to successful DevSecOps implementation…

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