Imperva

Imperva Inc.
Public
Traded as (NYSE: IMPV)
Industry IT security
Founded 2002
Headquarters 3400 Bridge Parkway [1], Redwood Shores, CA, United States
Area served
 Worldwide
Key people
 Anthony Bettencourt (CEO)
Amichai Shulman (CTO)
Terry Schmid (CFO)
Kim DeCarlis (CMO)
Products Data Security, Web Application Security, Database Security, File Security, Sharepoint Security, Web Security-as-a-Service (SaaS)
Revenue Increase $137.76 million (2013)
Number of employees
 750 (December 2014)
Subsidiaries Incapsula, Inc
Skyfence, Inc
Website www.imperva.com

Imperva is a provider of cyber and data security products.[2] With an integrated security platform, Imperva data center security provides tools to combat attack, theft, and fraud, mitigate risk, and streamline regulatory compliance.[3] Imperva is headquartered in Redwood Shores, California.

History

Founded in the US State of Delaware on April 10, 2002,[4] Imperva develops Web Application Firewall products,[5] available as on-premise products[6] or cloud services,[7] Data Auditing and Firewall products, available for File systems,[8] Databases systems[9] and Sharepoint applications.[10] These products provide real-time and automated protection against cyber security threats, data loss and failing to meet audit requirements

Imperva has received a total of $53.7M in venture capital funding, including over $20M in its Series D round in April 2008.

Imperva’s investors include Accel Partners, Greylock Partners, Meritech Capital Partners, USVP and Venrock.

Key milestones

2014

2013

2012

2011

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2002

Focus

Imperva’s belief is that an organization’s most important asset today is data—customer, financial and intellectual property, each of which need to be protected from insiders and hackers. To protect data, Imperva claims to have built a data security suite to protect both structured and unstructured data:

Imperva has published a detailed company mission overview.

Data security

Imperva’s currently sells SecureSphere, an appliance and has three main components: web application firewalls, Database activity monitoring, and File Activity Monitoring.

Database security

Imperva’s Database security solutions secure sensitive data stored in databases against compromises of their confidentiality, integrity and availability by providing full visibility into data usage, vulnerabilities and access rights to security, audit and risk professionals. The company enables customers to optimize the deployment by combining remote assessment scans, agent-based monitoring and network activity monitoring.

File security

Imperva’s File Security solutions protect sensitive files on file servers, storage devices, and content repositories, as well as provide full visibility into data ownership, usage and access rights, which according to Gartner’s Neil MacDonald is crucial to improving file data security.[24]

Web application security

Web application security draws on the principles of application security but applies them specifically to Internet and Web systems. By continuously adapting to evolving threats and mitigating the risk of data breaches, Imperva’s Web application security solutions protect web applications from cyber attacks predominantly through web application firewalls.

ADC

Imperva has a dedicated research team, the Application Defense Center (ADC) that actively researches current threats and hacker trends. Notably, the ADC launched a Hacker Intelligence Initiative that has helped illuminate hacker activity and organization. They have contributed a lot to helping understand hacker technology and activities:

The ADC helps drive Imperva’s blog which features technical and nontechnical security discussions.

Industry recognition

2014

  • Named Best Data Security/Loss Management Solution by the 2014 Government Security News Homeland Security Awards Program[31]
  • Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Imperva for Becoming the Revenue Leader in the Web Application Firewall Market and for its Acquisition of Incapsula[32]
  • Imperva Positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Web Application Firewall[33]
  • Imperva Named Web Application Firewall Vendor of the Year at 2014 Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific ICT Awards".[34]

2010

  • Named the Wall Street Journal’s “Next Big Thing”. Ranked tenth out of 50, and the highest ranked security vendor.[35]
  • Named a leader in Forrester’s Wave on Database Activity Monitoring.[36]
  • Named the top vendor for WAF in Japan.[37]
  • Awarded 2010 Everything Channel Partner Program Guide and Five-Star Partner Rating
  • Introduced ThreatRadar To Mitigate Automated, Industrialized Cyber Attacks
  • InfoSecurity magazine names Imperva’s WAF product of the year.
  • SC Magazine names SecureSphere as a runner up product of the year.
  • SC Magazine Australia names SecureSphere as product of the year.

2009

  • Named One of 50 Hottest Companies for 2009 in TiEcon Competition
  • SecureSphere Achieves Common Criteria Certification
  • Finalist in SC Awards 2009 SecureSphere Best Web Application Security Solution
  • ICSA Labs certified Imperva SecureSphere Web Application Firewall

2008

  • 2008 Editor's Best Award from SQL Server Magazine
  • Techworld names SecureSphere a winner for Network Application Product of the Year
  • Shlomo Kramer Named CEO of the Year by SC Magazine
  • Information Security Magazine "Imperva presented the strongest all-around (WAF) offering"
  • Finalist in for SC Magazine Excellence Award - Best Enterprise Security Solution
  • RSA Secured® Partner Program Certification

2007

  • Red Herring 100 Global Award
  • Editor's Choice Award from InformationWeek Magazine
  • Red Herring 100 Award—One of the top private companies in North America
  • 2007 Readers' Choice Award from Information Security Magazine
  • Finalist in the SC Magazine Awards 2007 Europe Best Security Solution for Healthcare
  • One of the 25 Best Security Innovations for 2007 by Financial IT Security Magazine

2006

  • InfoWorld CTO 25 List name Amichai Shulman
  • Editor's Choice for Web Application Firewall by Network Computing
  • eWeek Excellence Award
  • Shlomo Kramer - Top 20 People Who Changed the Network Industry by Network World
  • Most Innovative at the invitation-only RSA Conference 2006 Innovation Station Showdown
  • Security Company to Watch by Red Herring Magazine

2005

  • Yankee Group Names Imperva "Market Leader" in Web Application Firewalls
  • CRN gives Imperva SecureSphere Database Security Gateway 5-Star Recommendation
  • Finalist for Red Herring Top 100 Private Companies
  • Finalist for Software Newcomer of the Year 2005 "CODiE" Awards
  • Imperva Delivers First True Gigabit Application Firewall Solution

2004

  • CRN gives Imperva SecureSphere Web Application Firewall 5-Star Recommendation
  • InfoWorld Product Review gives Imperva the Highest Score in Application Security
  • Imperva™ Unveils SecureSphere Web Application Security Appliances
  • WebCohort, Inc. Changes Company Name to Imperva, Inc.

Partners

Selected customers

Key customers Imperva has cited include:

References

  1. ↑ "Contact US". Imperva. Retrieved 2013-09-10.
  2. ↑ http://www.imperva.com/products/ssp_securesphere-platform-overview.html
  3. ↑ http://www.imperva.com/products/products.html
  4. ↑ http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1364962/000119312511284815/d189646dex33.htm
  5. ↑ http://www.imperva.com/Products/WebApplicationSecurity
  6. ↑ http://www.imperva.com/Products/SecureSphereAppliances
  7. ↑ http://www.imperva.com/Products/CloudSecurity
  8. ↑ http://www.imperva.com/Products/FileSecurity
  9. ↑ http://www.imperva.com/Products/DatabaseSecurity
  10. ↑ http://www.imperva.com/Products/SharepointSecurity
  11. ↑ https://www.gartner.com/doc/2770322/magic-quadrant-web-application-firewalls
  12. ↑ http://www.imperva.com/go/si/default.asp
  13. ↑ http://www.imperva.com/go/t/default.asp
  14. ↑ Owens, Jeremy. "Biz Break: Imperva names new CEO with history of acquisitions". San Jose Mercury News.
  15. ↑ http://investors.imperva.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=247116&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1809469&highlight=
  16. ↑ http://investors.imperva.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=247116&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1760027&highlight=
  17. ↑ http://investors.imperva.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=247116&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1738370&highlight=
  18. ↑ "Database Auditing and Real-time Protection".
  19. ↑ "Company Outline: WAF".
  20. ↑ incapsula.com
  21. ↑ Vance, Ashlee (January 21, 2010). "If Your Password Is 123456, Just Make It HackMe". The New York Times.
  22. ↑ "2010 Verizon Data Breach Report".
  23. ↑ "2008 Verizon Data Breach Report".
  24. ↑ MacDonald, Neil. "Why Does Identifying Data Owners Have To Be So Hard".
  25. ↑ Vance, Ashlee (2010-1-20). "If Your Password Is 123456, Just Make It HackMe". The New York Times. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  26. ↑ Rachwald, Rob (2011-05-30). "PBS Breached - How Hackers Probably Did It".
  27. ↑ Jacob, Marc (June 2011). "Imperva Releases Details of How SEP Works".
  28. ↑ Cohen, Noam (12/9/2010). "Web Attackers Find a Cause in WikiLeaks". The New York Times. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  29. ↑ Acohido, Byron (2011-06-26). "Governments, Businesses, People Caught in Hacker Crossfire". USA Today.
  30. ↑ Steinberg, Scott (2011-07-27). "Hackers Attack Web Apps Once Every Two Minutes".
  31. ↑ http://www.gsnmagazine.com/article/43002/gsn_announces_winners_and_finalists_2014_homeland_
  32. ↑ http://ww2.frost.com/news/press-releases/frost-sullivan-recognizes-imperva-becoming-revenue-leader-web-application-firewall-market-and-its-acquisition-incapsula/
  33. ↑ https://www.gartner.com/doc/2770322/magic-quadrant-web-application-firewalls
  34. ↑ http://www.nasdaq.com/press-release/imperva-named-web-application-firewall-vendor-of-the-year-at-2014-frost--sullivan-asia-pacific-ict-20140702-00802#ixzz38ssfRETE
  35. ↑ "Wall Street Journal's "Next Big Thing" List 2010". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved August 1, 2011.
  36. ↑ "Database Auditing and Real-time Protection".
  37. ↑

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