When Imperva announced in 2018 it would acquire the application security solution provider Prevoty, a company I co-founded with Julien Bellanger, I knew it would be a win-win for our industry. Prevoty’s flagship product, Runtime Application Self-Protection (RASP), is the most mature, market-tested RASP solution (as proof, Prevoty was just named a Silver Winner in the Cybersecurity Excellence Awards). Together, Imperva and Prevoty are creating a consolidated, comprehensive platform for application and data security.
More importantly, this acquisition is a big win for our customers. The combination of Imperva and RASP extends customers’ visibility into how applications behave and how users interact with sensitive information. With this expanded view across their business assets, customers will have deeper insights to understand and mitigate security risk at the edge, application, and database.
In parallel with product integrations, our teams of security innovators are coming together. I am delighted to join the Imperva team as CTO and to lead a highly accomplished group to radically transform the way our industry thinks about application and data security. In the coming horizon, we will boost data visibility throughout the stack, translate billions of data points into actionable insights, and intelligently automate responses that protect businesses. In fact, we just released two new features for RASP that deliver on those goals: Network Activity Protection and Weak Cryptography Protection. Learn more about these at Imperva.com and also in my interview with eWeek.
Network Activity Protection provides organizations with the ability to monitor and prevent unauthorized outbound network communications originating from within their applications, APIs, and microservices — a blind spot for organizations that are undergoing a digital transformation. Organizations now have a clear view into the various endpoints with which their applications communicate.
The new Weak Cryptography Protection feature offers the ability to monitor and protect against the use of specific weak hashing algorithms (including SHA-1, MD5) and cryptographic ciphers (including AES, 3DES/DES, RC4). Applications that leverage Autonomous Application Protection can now monitor and force compliant cryptographic practices.
Imperva is leading the world’s fight to keep data and applications safe from cyber criminals. Organizations that deploy Imperva will not have to choose between innovation and protecting their customers. The future of application and data security will be smarter,simpler, and we are leading the way there.
Imperva will be at the RSA Conference March 4-8 in San Francisco. Stop by Booth 527 in the South Expo and learn about the New Imperva from me (I’ll be there Tuesday-Thursday) and other executives! We’ve revamped our suite of security solutions under a new license called FlexProtect that makes it simpler for organizations to deploy our security products and services to deliver the agility they need as they digitally transform their businesses.
Start your day or enjoy an afternoon pick-me-up by grabbing a coffee in our booth Tuesday through Thursday 10-2 pm, while:
- See a demo of our latest products in the areas of cloud app and data security and data risk analytics
- Learn more about how our suite of security solutions works in AWS environments
Imperva will also be at the AWS booth (1227 in the South Expo hall). There, you can:
- Hear how one of our cloud customers, an U.S.-based non-profit with nearly 40 million members, uses RASP to detect and mitigate potential application attacks, Tuesday, March 5th from 3:30 – 4:00 pm in the AWS booth
- See a demo of how our solutions work in cloud environments, Tuesday, March 5th 3:30-5 pm and Wednesday, March 6th, 11:30-2 pm
Finally – we will be participating in the webinar “Cyber Security Battles: How to Prepare and Win” at RSA. It will be first broadcast at 9:30 am on March 6th and feature George McGregor, vice-president of product marketing at Imperva, in a Q&A discussion with executives from several other vendors as they discuss the possibility of a cyber battle between AI systems, which experts predict might be on the horizon in the next three to five years. Register and watch for free!
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