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Third Semi-Annual Web Application Attack Report from Imperva Finds Web Applications Under Attack One Third of the Time; SQL Injection Remains Most Popular Vector<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

SYDNEY, Aust. \u2013 August 7, 2012 \u2013<\/strong> Imperva, Inc. (NYSE:\u00a0 IMPV), a pioneer and leader of a new category of data security solutions for high-value business data in the data center, released today the results of the third Imperva Web Application Attack Report (WAAR), which reveals that the median annual attack incidents on the 50 Web applications observed was274 times a year, with one target experiencing more than 2,700 attack incidents.<\/p>\n

According to the report, the average attack incident for the observed Web applications lasted seven minutes and 42 seconds, but the longest attack incident lasted an hour and 19 minutes. SQL Injection remains the most popular attack vector.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese findings indicate a significant difference between an average Web application attack incident and the upper limit,\u201d said Stree Naidu, Vice President Asia Pacific, Imperva. \u201cWe believe that organizations that are only prepared for an average attack incident may be overwhelmed by larger attack incidents, like a flood bursting through a levy.\u201d<\/p>\n

The WAAR, created as part of Imperva\u2019s ongoing Hacker Intelligence Initiative, offers insight into actual malicious attack traffic of 50 Web applications over a period of six months, December 2011 through May 2012.\u00a0 Imperva monitored and categorized numerous individual attacks across the Internet, as well as attacks targeting different enterprise and government Web applications. The WAAR outlines the frequency, type, and geography of origin of each attack to help security professionals prioritize vulnerability remediation.<\/p>\n

Highlights from the report include:<\/p>\n