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Description: When cybersecurity firm Imperva asked one of its banking clients how many apps it thought its staff was using, the firm estimated between 75 and 100 in total. The figure was closer to 800. Why does this matter? Read the link below to check the entire case study.

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1. “Cloud-based apps often gain access to the camera, location, data, and contacts on your phone. So you never know how much sensitive company information they may be snaffling. We could be giving hackers, fraudsters, and spies the keys to our company’s back door, particularly if we naively use the same log-in details for external apps as we do for internal work apps.” Should the company you work for being allowed to limit/refuse/check what apps you have on your phone that you bring into the workplace?
2. Why do you use the same log-in details for “play” apps and “work” apps, and how might you stop doing this?

Answer 1

In recent years, cyber security has become vital in all organizations. There is a growing need to become familiar with all aspects of cyber security such as Blockchain, Big Data, IOT to mitigate this risk.
We want to be very clear that this data exposure is limited to our Cloud WAF product.

Companies that use the Incapsula WAF route all of their Web site traffic through the service, which scrubs the communications for any suspicious activity or attacks and then forwards the benign traffic on to its intended destination

Imperva, a leading provider of Internet firewall services that help Web sites block malicious cyberattacks, alerted customers on Tuesday that a recent data breach exposed email addresses, scrambled passwords, API keys and SSL certificates for a subset of its firewall users.

Redwood Shores, Calif.-based Imperva sells technology and services designed to detect and block various types of malicious Web traffic, from denial-of-service attacks to digital probes aimed at undermining the security of Web-based software applications.