Businessweek

Imperva, Inc. engages in the development, marketing, sale, service, and support of business security solutions that provide visibility and control over high value business data across critical systems within the data center. The company’s SecureSphere Business Security Suite is a solution designed to prioritize and mitigate risks to high-value business data, protect against hackers and malicious insiders, and address and streamline regulatory compliance. As of December 31, 2012, the company had approximately 2,200 end-user customers in approximately 60 countries. In addition, its solutions are used to protect thousands of organizations through cloud-based deployments with its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) customers and managed security service provider (MSSP) and hosting partners. The company primarily sells its products and services through its network of approximately 550 channel partners worldwide, including both distributors and resellers. Products The company’s products include its SecureSphere Suite for enterprise data centers and its cloud-based security services that the company provides through Incapsula, Inc. (Incapsula), its majority-owned subsidiary, for mid-market enterprises, and small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). The company’s SecureSphere Suite secures high-value data across critical systems within the data center from hackers and malicious insiders, provides an accelerated route to address regulatory compliance and establishes a repeatable process for data risk management. The company’s solution is designed on a common, modular platform that provides centralized management, in-depth analytics and customizable reporting and offers multiple, flexible deployment options that are quick to deploy and easy to scale. Database Security: Provides full visibility and control over structured business data repositories, including database data usage, vulnerabilities and access rights and enables security, audit, risk and IT professionals to improve data security and address compliance requirements. File Security: Provides full visibility and control over unstructured business data repositories, including file ownership, usage and access rights and enables security, audit, risk and IT professionals to improve file data security and address compliance requirements. Web Application Security: Protects Web applications from large scale cyber attacks, adapts to evolving threats to prevent data breaches and addresses compliance requirements. SecureSphere Web Application Firewall (WAF), Database Activity Monitoring and File Activity Monitoring gateways are deployed in the network near the assets they are meant to protect. The File and Database gateways also work in conjunction with SecureSphere Agents that capture activity on the database and file servers themselves. The company’s broad SecureSphere solution is managed by a centralized management server, which incorporates information from ThreatRadar and security updates from the Imperva Application Defense Center (ADC). Database Security The company’s database security products are designed to secure high-value business data in structured repositories in the data center. The company’s database security products are sold as physical or virtual appliances based on the feature and traffic capacity requirements of its customers. The company also offers add-on products for its appliances that are sold separately. The company’s database products cover the following major enterprise database platforms: Oracle, MS-SQL, IBM DB2, Sybase, Informix, MySQL, Progress, Teradata and Netezza. Discovery and Assessment Server: Automates the process of discovering databases and other business data on the network and performs a security assessment to identify risks to high-value business data; includes assessments of known vulnerabilities and configuration flaws based on proprietary research from its Imperva Application Defense Center (ADC) and industry best practices; and enables organizations to review and manage their vulnerabilities and scope security and compliance projects. Database Activity Monitoring: It includes all discovery and assessment serve