Imperva: a Leader in WAAP (IDC MarketScape)

Imperva has been recognized as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Web Application and API Protection Enterprise Platforms 2024 Vendor Assessment.

Imperva – a Thales company and leading provider of Web Application and API Protection (WAAP) solutions, is a force to be reckoned with in the cybersecurity landscape. The comprehensive approach to security, encompassing database security, enterprise application security, bot management, DDoS mitigation, and API security, has continued to cement Imperva's position as a trusted partner for large-scale digital businesses.

Imperva Web Application and API Protection (WAAP) is a converged security solution, with a Web Application Firewall at its core, which integrates essential tools such as API security, bot management, and DDoS mitigation into a unified platform. This cohesive approach ensures comprehensive protection while reducing security gaps and simplifying management. As online risks continue to increase, implementing WAAP enables businesses to adapt to new threats while enhancing their overall security strategy.

Imperva Web Application and API Protection (WAAP) – Capabilities:

• The Imperva WAF is powered by an ongoing development and feedback loop, resulting in low false positive rates.
• Low customization/tuning is required, which enables rapid deployment, ease of use, and decreased work hours.
• RASP is an optional add-on that provides advanced security against sophisticated attacks, insider threats, and fraud.
• All protections are performed via a single pass architecture, which ensures minimal performance impact.
• Client-side WAF is an integrated component of protection stack to address a key emerging need, which enables full visibility of scripts and tracking to ensure compliance.
• The solution has a strong bot management focus that enables strong protections across multiple bot use cases.
• Attack Analytics features provides explainability insights to narrow down events. This offers an assemblage of signals into events, helps reduce scale of security effort, and improves triage and response times.
• The solution supports developer tools such as Terraform for rapid and automated deployments and updates.
• CDN is built into the security stack, which enhances website performance and improves end-user experience. Imperva is leveraging tech partnerships to increase cloud capabilities in the near future.
• Account takeover detection capabilities help mitigate fraud and abuse and loss of revenue.
• Imperva's services can be consumed via APIs or as code. The approach offers flexibility of deployment and accessibility for developers to implement security.
• Support for traditional datacenter and legacy applications is available natively. This prevents the need for multivendor approaches to achieve comprehensive application protection.
• The Imperva Threat Research team closes the detection loop. This proactive, cutting-edge research bolsters security detection capabilities.

Imperva is the leader in end-to-end digital security, dedicated to helping organizations protect their data and all paths to it. Customers around the world trust Imperva to protect their applications, data, and websites from cyber-attacks.

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