Case Studies
Learn how Accor North America, one of the nation's largest owner/operators of economy lodging, is using SecureSphere to protect its Internet-based reservation systems and back-end databases from attack.
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Atos Euronext Market Solutions
Atos Euronext Market Solutions (AEMS) is the leading global provider of technology solutions for exchanges, clearing houses, banks, and intermediaries. AEMS selected the SecureSphere® Web Application Firewall to protect its Internet-based trading platform from being compromised.
"Our primary concern at AEMS is our clients, so we are continually reviewing our solutions to ensure we are working with the best suppliers in terms of reliability, security, and price performance. After a thorough review, SecureSphere emerged as a clear leader. SecureSphere is able to transparently protect our derivatives trading platform from internet attacks without degrading application response times."
Mamal Torfeh, Head of Global Managed Services, AEMS
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Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee Case Study
This Case Study describes how Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee has deployed Imperva SecureSphere to safeguard the privacy of private member and corporate information and to meet various privacy and security regulations, including requirements due to HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996) and CMS (the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services).
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Brock University(86KB PDF)
Brock University, located in St. Catharines, ON, is one of Canada’s leading universities with a stellar reputation for producing smart, successful graduates. Brock maintains a robust IT systems environment designed to keep pace with its stellar academic reputation and was determined to protect itself from the major data breaches that have been reported by so many educational institutions in recent memory. After evaluating the leading security products, Brock implemented Imperva’s SecureSphere Gateway to protect Brock’s front end web applications and also secure data all the way through their backend databases – while handling custom developed applications with no impact on performance or requiring special scripting.
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Caribou Coffee (NASDAQ: CBOU), the second-largest U.S. specialty coffee company, has deployed the SecureSphere® Database Monitoring Gateway (DMG) to meet compliance requirements imposed by the Sarbanes Oxley (Sarbox) legislation.
"SecureSphere allows us to track and document all database users, including database administrators and developers, and trace their actions, without impacting the performance or stability of our Microsoft SQL Server database. We now have the data needed to prove we are in compliance with Sarbanes Oxley."
Scott Ficek, Senior Director of Information Systems, Caribou Coffee
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This article in Baseline Magazine details how FFF Enterprises has deployed SecureSphere to protect the applications and databases associated with its Verified Electronic Pedigree (VEP) program. The VEP program protects patients' privacy and ensures their safety by tracking the source and location of life-saving medicines throughout the supply chain.
Houston Municipal Employees Pension System
The Houston Municipal Employees Pension System (HMEPS), with over 19,000 participants, provides municipal employees of the nation's fourth largest city with pension management and administration services. HMEPS has selected both the SecureSphere™ Database Security Gateway and Web Application Firewall to protect its back-end database from attack.
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Intuition Systems, a leading national payment processing firm, has deployed the SecureSphere® Web Application Firewall (WAF) and Database Security Gateway (DSG) to meet compliance requirements imposed by the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard. Intuition Systems chose SecureSphere for its unique ability to provide integrated web application protection and database security.
"Deploying a Web Application Firewall was the most efficient and cost effective solution for us to comply with the PCI Data Security Standard. SecureSphere was the easiest product to deploy and configure, and delivered the best performance in our tests. When we learned about its ability to also monitor and protect databases, we expanded our project scope and deployed this functionality as well. With Imperva we have a complete solution for data security and PCI compliance."
Jean-Pierre Zaiter, CIO, Intuition Systems
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This Case Study describes how the Israel Ministry of Finance eGovernment initiative is using Imperva SecureSphere as its main line of defense against application attacks.
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Korea Life Insurance has deployed the SecureSphere™ Web Application Firewall to secure its Web applications from attack. In tests at Korea Life, SecureSphere delivered five to seven times better performance than reverse proxy implementations for both throughput and latency because SecureSphere's transparent inspection requires less processing overhead than the reverse-proxy architecture.
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Scottrade, one of the nation's leading online brokerage firms, has selected the award-winning SecureSphere(tm) Web Application Firewall to protect its Internet-based trading systems from attack. Scottrade chose SecureSphere for its high performance, precise attack protection, and unique approach to application security.
"SecureSphere enables us to protect these core business systems from attack, fraud and data theft by blocking attacks that are not detected by traditional perimeter security products."
Grant Bourzikas, Senior Manager of Information Security
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Soka-Bau (183KB PDF)
SOKA-BAU, headquartered in Wiesbaden, Germany, provides benefits, compensation and pension insurance services for 70,000 German construction companies. To operate more efficiently, SOKA-BAU wanted to provide self-service web applications to their customers and covered employees, while protecting them from the major data breaches reported by various organizations that implement online services in recent memory. After evaluating the leading security products, Soka Bau implemented Imperva’s SecureSphere Web Application Firewall and Database Security Gateway products. SecureSphere was the only solution that could not only provide the deep monitoring and security functionality, but also surpassed all other competitors in the performance and scale requirements necessary for such an environment.
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Staffmark, a leading provider of workforce solutions, has selected the SecureSphere® Web Application Firewall to protect its Internet-based self-service applications from attack. Staffmark chose SecureSphere for its unique ability to dynamically examine live Web traffic and automatically create security policies for PeopleSoft-based applications and its Outlook Web Access (OWA) e-mail system.
"SecureSphere was the only product capable of learning our PeopleSoft applications and dynamically creating the appropriate security policies."
David Bartholomew, Chief Executive Officer of Staffmark
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