Imperva Rolls Out WAF Add-On

Company says its ThreatRadar product improves ability of WAFs to stop attacks by "automatically adapting the defense."

Data security provider Imperva has announced the general availability of its new ThreatRadar product.

ThreatRadar is an add-on to Imperva's Web Application Firewall (WAF), which provides automated, reputation-based defense against cyber attacks. 

Imperva says its ThreatRadar WAF helps to mitigate mass SQL injection attacks coming from botnets as well as several types of automated attacks, such as Comment spam campaigns, scraping attacks, and Web email spam attacks.

The company says the product also protects against:

• Malicious Sources--Up-to-date protection from sources that have repeatedly performed malicious activity on other Web applications.

• Anonymous Proxies--Up-to-date protection from sources that are used as anonymous proxies.

• Phishing URLs--Real time alerting on phishing incidents against a domain.

Imperva CTO Amichai Shulman says ThreatRadar increases the ability of WAF to stop attacks by "automatically adapting the defense so traffic from malicious sources can be blocked before an attack is attempted."

He adds, "By harnessing the collective insight of the security community, ThreatRadar can block traffic from malicious sources. As attackers shift locations and techniques Imperva's ThreatRadar-powered WAF delivers the broadest arsenal of defense capabilities available today."

In addition, Imperva says ThreatRadar will provide:

• IP Forensics Tool--A Web-based tool providing additional context on attackers, including geographic location and user profile.

• Ongoing Threat Updates--Imperva's Application Defense Center (ADC) has researched and integrated credible attack source data providers to ensure protection accuracy and effectiveness. The ADC will continually update attack sources as an ongoing service.