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Imperva: Into the Future of Cybersecurity with Imperva

Dan Neault

SVP and GM, Data Security


Imperva is a cybersecurity provider that helps organizations secure their data and all paths. With a unified approach combining edge, application security and data security, Imperva protects companies through all stages of their digital journey.

The multiplying digital connections form increasingly complex webs that grow more intricate with each new technology. Securing precious user data in such complex environments is one of the most common challenges organizations face in today's cyber era. Imperva is a cybersecurity provider that helps organizations secure their data and all paths. With a unified approach combining edge, application security and data security, Imperva protects companies through all stages of their digital journey.

The web application firewall offered by Imperva stops web application attacks that prevent essential transactions and steal sensitive data attacks with near-zero false positives and a global SOC. The product is a critical component of a comprehensive Web Application and API Protection (WAAP) stack that secures from edge to database, so the users receive only relevant traffic. They provide PCI-compliant website protection and automated security that integrates analytics to go beyond OWASP Top 10 coverage and reduces the risks created by third-party code. Imperva Web Application Firewall Can Secure active and legacy applications, third-party applications, APIs & microservices, cloud applications, containers, VMs and more.

Another product from Imperva is the Data Security Fabric. It is the first data-centric solution that enables security and compliance teams to quickly and easily secure sensitive data irrelevant of location with an integrated, proactive approach to the visibility and predictive analytics. It offers data activity monitoring, discovery and classification, data access control, risk analytics, threat detection & prevention, mitigation & response, and compliance management. Imperva Cloud Data Security is another product that offers security and compliance for the users' data in Amazon RDS, Redshift or Azure SQL Server database environments. It closes the gap with cloud-native security measures that won't slow the pace of the organization's innovation.

Web application attacks prevent important transactions and steal sensitive data. Imperva Web Application Firewall (WAF) stops these attacks with near-zero false positives and a global SOC to ensure organization is protected from the latest attacks minutes after they are discovered in the wild. False positives forces a choice between blocking legitimate traffic or staying in monitor mode forever. Imperva Research Labs ensures precision for customers, giving them confidence to block as the threat landscape evolves. Automatic policy creation and fast rule propagation empower security teams to use third-party code without risk while working at the pace of DevOps. Imperva WAF is a key component of a comprehensive Web Application and API Protection (WAAP) stack that secures from edge to database, so the traffic received is only the traffic the business want.

Imperva DNS Protection is a product that is an always-on service to secure websites, applications, and APIs against DNS attacks and is guaranteed to mitigate DDoS attacks targeting domain name servers. It ensures network connectivity and website availability to keep the business operational and resilient against the threat of a DNS-targeted attack. It also filters out lousy traffic and only responds to legitimate requests to guarantee operational uptime and business continuity. The product works in sync with Imperva DDoS protection for websites and DDoS protection for network services. Together they shield Imperva customers against all types of DDoS attacks.

Recently, Imperva announced that its award-winning Imperva Data Security Fabric now provides data-centric protection and compliance for enterprise data pools built on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Many security teams have resources and domain expertise gaps to ensure their data lake meets organizational compliance and security policies. These gaps might force organizations to choose between limiting the data they store in a data lake and putting themselves at risk of a data breach. Imperva Data Security Fabric can be deployed directly in any AWS Region using pre-built AWS CloudFormation templates. Imperva DSF will start discovering and monitoring data lakes once deployed. More than 400 pre-set vulnerability assessment tests are available for cloud databases on AWS.

"AWS allows organizations to quickly and securely build solutions that help them to reach new markets and deliver new services to end users," says Dan Neault, SVP and GM, Data Security, Imperva. "Imperva Data Security Fabric gives organizations building data lakes on AWS a streamlined experience for securing data and confidence that their data lakes comply," he added.

Imperva now has a customer base of 6200 across 150 countries worldwide, including seven of the top ten commercial banks and 34% of the fortune 100 companies. It has 1300 plus employees in 17 locations and is headquartered in San Mateo, California.