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Imperva Attack Analytics

Score9.4 out of 10

3 Reviews and Ratings

What is Imperva Attack Analytics?

Imperva Attack Analytics, (formerly ThreatRadar), is a threat intelligence service relying on research from Imperva's Application Defense Center (ADC), integratable into Imperva's WAF solutions and able to be fed into enterprise security data.

Categories & Use Cases

Provides the foundations for a robust risk management process

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Complete visibility into the database, all privileged activities, as well as comprehensive auditing of any access to sensitive information. It meets the operational scalability demands of the company by consolidating the management, visibility and reporting across the distributed locations. Enforces access policies, sending real-time alerts and enabling users to create follow-on tasks, to ensure proper incident management and response

Pros

  • Routinely runs assessments and scans our systems to identify missing patches and configurations
  • Enables the company to identify users with excessive rights to sensitive data
  • Accelerates incident response and investigation with centralized management and advanced analytics

Cons

  • Improve the process of forwarding details about system events and database security events to the company's Security Operations Center through better integration with other systems

Most Important Features

  • Continuous API endpoint protection with security norms adjusted to APIs
  • Analyzes security events using artificial intelligence
  • DDoS protection that shields assets to ensure business continuity with no performance impact and guaranteed uptime

Return on Investment

  • Visibility and control over all endpoint access
  • Detects malicious behavior and use of stolen credentials, with real-time remediation
  • Clean analytics saves hundreds of hours in incident response

Alternatives Considered

Cloudflare

Imperva Attack Analytics a tool that cannot be missing in your organization

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I am currently using Imperva Analytics to analyze all the web traffic that our domains receive with this system we can measure different metrics, for example, we can know where the attacks come from in detail, what technique they used, from what country and the public IPs of attackers, in the same way we can see the peak hours of more attacks and the bandwidth that these events are causing us. In itself, it is an excellent security tool that gives us greater visibility.

Pros

  • It quickly shows us the statistics graphically.
  • It gives us a super grainy detail of the attack.
  • The board is very friendly.
  • It is always constantly updated.

Cons

  • A heat map of global attacks versus attacks coming our way.
  • Attention or support in Spanish language
  • Increase the history of the logs

Most Important Features

  • See the attacks in real time.
  • easy-to-read graphics.
  • Accurate information in the logs.

Return on Investment

  • We gain in reputation as our website has never been down.
  • We gain credibility as we are protected with the best security tool.
  • We gain trust, our clients know that their accounts are well protected.

Other Software Used

Radware DefensePro, Check Point DDoS Protector, FortiDDoS

Imperva Attack Analytics delivers quality analytics and security

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Imperva Attack Analytics to monitor all of our internet-facing resources. Imperva Attack Analytics allows us to see possible threats and vulnerabilities before they have a chance to cause problems.

Pros

  • Alerting on known vulnerabilities
  • Detecting anomalous behavior
  • Providing recommendations for remediation

Cons

  • The UI does not feel intuitive
  • The support documentation sometimes is lacking or unclear
  • API integration seems a little more complicated than need be.

Most Important Features

  • Its ability to detect anomalous behavior for possible zero day attacks
  • The insights provide helpful tips for remediation of issues
  • Allows private clouds to have a secure front end similar to public clouds

Return on Investment

  • Imperva Attack Analytics has detected multiple vulnerabilities for zero-day attacks before they were exploited. This allowed us to remediate the vulnerabilities without any downtime or financial impact.
  • Imperva Attack Analytics has allowed our on-premise infrastructure the same level of security provided as our cloud infrastructure.

Alternatives Considered

AWS WAF, Azure Front Door and Microsoft Defender for IoT