Imperva used this week’s Infosecurity Show in London to announce what it believes is a key innovation for its line of web application firewalls – crowd-sourced threat data.

Called ThreatRadar Community Defense and incorporated into the firm’s latest SecureSphere 10.0 release, the system analyzes attack patterns detected hitting the networks of participating customers, which are then fed into its reputation protection and policies in what is said to be close to real-time.

According to the company’s analysis of 60 web applications, this type of pattern analysis across offers better defense against the types of large-scale attacks experienced by its customer base.

“Together, Imperva ThreatRadar Reputation Services and Community Defense pull crowd-sourced data from around the world to provide heightened insight into the identity of these attackers,” said Imperva’s co-founder and CTO, Amichai Shulman.

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