FOSTER CITY, CA – January 24, 2005 – Imperva, Inc., the developer of the world’s first Dynamic Profiling Firewall™, today announced that increased demand for Web application and database security fueled growth in the company’s sales to 200% year over year growth making 2004 a record year. The company achieved its largest year for sales by winning Fortune 1000 customers in the healthcare, financial services, and e-business markets. Imperva now has over 50 production deployments in seven countries and continues to expand its distribution into new markets including Japan, Germany and Singapore.
“Imperva’s unique approach to automatically securing the entire application layer from the inside out has met with substantial demand from enterprises who want total application security with minimal ongoing management,” said Shlomo Kramer, CEO of Imperva. “We are well prepared to respond to anticipated 2005 budget growth for application firewall technologies and making this another record year.”
Industry Honors
With SecureSphere, Imperva had delivered the only unified security platform to provide automated protection against Web application hacking, database breach and worm infection. In 2004 Imperva received multiple accolades including:
- Awarded Top Score in the Application security category by InfoWorld Product Reviewers
- Awarded “CRN Test Center Recommended Status” by CRN
- Named as a “winner” in a Yankee Group report covering the application security gateway market, which predicted the global security market would generate $12.9 billion in revenue in 2004.
Led By Industry Pioneer
Co-founder, CEO, and President Shlomo Kramer, a pioneer in the world of information security, leads Imperva and boasts an extensive repertoire of technological innovations. In 1993 Kramer co-founded Check Point Software Technologies and turned the start up into a key player in the field of information security. In addition to his success with Check Point, Kramer was instrumental in the creation and definition of a number of crucial security products and solutions, including FireWall-1 and VPN-1. The company also features a leading management team with long time experience in both the application and the network security arena.
About Imperva Solutions
The SecureSphere™ Dynamic Profiling Firewall™ provides total application security – including protection from both external and internal Web application attack, database breach, and worm infection. SecureSphere automatically learns a company’s web applications and continually adapts to application changes with no on-going manual tuning. Moreover, SecureSphere can be cost effectively deployed into a company’s current environment because it complements the existing security investments and requires no changes to existing applications and infrastructure. SecureSphere pays for itself by eliminating the emergency “fix and test” cycles traditionally required to fix application vulnerabilities found in production.
About Imperva
Imperva is the leader in application data security and compliance. Leading enterprise and government organizations worldwide rely on Imperva to prevent data theft and abuse, and ensure data integrity. The company’s SecureSphere products provide data governance and protection solutions that monitor, audit and secure business applications and databases. For more information, visit www.imperva.com
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