Device Identification and Malware Protection Enhances Fraud Prevention Service to Help Secure High-Risk Transactions 

Redwood Shores, Calif., June 11, 2012 – Imperva, Inc. (NYSE: IMPV), a pioneer and leader of a new category of data security solutions for high-value business data in the data center, today announced it had added ThreatMetrix device identification and fraud malware detection to ThreatRadar Fraud Prevention. The Imperva SecureSphere Web Application Firewall (WAF) interoperates with ThreatMetrix TrustDefender to help secure high-risk transactions, new account origination and online authentication against fraud.

Commenting on reports that Intel’s IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) allows hackers remote access to servers – even when the server is switched off – Lieberman Software says the technology is an electronic accident waiting to happen in many major corporations.

Philip Lieberman, president of the privileged identity management specialist, says that IPMI was introduced in the late 1990s by Intel to allow system administrators to manage a computer system and monitor its operation.

“As a message-based, hardware-level interface specification, the IPMI sub-system operates independently of the operating system – allowing admins to manage a system remotely in the absence of an operating system - or the system management software,” he said.

Commenting on a Ponemon Report showing that 72 per cent of consumers who have been notified of a data breach at a company they had dealt were dissatisfied with the communication, Varonis Systems says that this highlights the brutal fact that people are less likely to purchase or deal with an organization where their data has been lost due to a breach.

David Gibson, Varonis’ VP of strategy, says that, whilst he welcomes news that 25 per cent of respondents said they were notified by letter of a data breach – up from 12 per cent seven years ago – this shows that consumers are still at the end of the food chain when it comes to being informed about their data.

The results of a survey released today reveals that people would prefer to lose the contents of their wallets than their mobile phones! The study asked what people would most fear losing from their back pocket – 37% said their ‘personal phone’; 20% their ‘company phone’; 25% said ‘£50’; with just 18% citing ‘credit cards’. This is further confirmation that, as a nation, we’re not only increasingly attached to our phones, but that we’re also gripped by nomophobia – the fear of being out of mobile contact.

 The study, sponsored by SecurEnvoy, follows on from its previous research in January. Back then, the global leader of tokenlessâ two-factor authentication found that two thirds of respondents feared losing their mobile phone. So great was this worry that 41% had two phones or more in an effort to stay connected.