SecureSphere 4.0 protects data centers from application hacking, identity theft, phishing and other critical threats to proprietary enterprise data and business applications.

GARTNER IT SECURITY SUMMIT, WASHINGTON, DC – June 6, 2005 – Imperva, Inc., the developer of the world’s first Dynamic Profiling Firewall, today announced the availability of the world’s first application firewall solution capable of true Gigabit performance, as well as the release of Version 4.0 of the SecureSphere Dynamic Profiling Firewall system. With the release of SecureSphere v4.0, enterprises large and small have an integrated attack protection solution that meets their stringent requirements for performance, accuracy, and scalability.

Data centers contain the enterprise’s most valuable assets, have the most demanding operational requirements, and are subject to a complex array of attack vectors. Web attack, database breach, and worm infection are continuous threats from both internal and external sources. Defending against these threats has traditionally required the integration of multiple disparate solutions. With the SecureSphere Dynamic Profiling Firewall, enterprises large and small have an integrated attack protection solution with the performance, accuracy, and scalability necessary to protect today’s enterprise data center. SecureSphere is built on Imperva’s patent pending Dynamic Profiling technology and provides attack protection that combines the capabilities of a:

  • Web firewall
  • Database firewall
  • Web services firewall
  • Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)
  • Stateful network firewall

”Securing the enterprise’s proprietary information, custom business applications, and critical servers has been hampered by the lack of solutions that are data center ready.” said Shlomo Kramer, CEO of Imperva Inc. “With version 4.0 of SecureSphere, Imperva has delivered a unified attack protection solution that meets the data center’s stringent requirements for performance, accuracy, and scalability, and which is also practical to deploy and operate.”

The SecureSphere Dynamic Profiling Firewall secures an enterprise’s data centers by protecting against all attack vectors – both external and internal Web application and Web services attacks, database breach, and server worm infection.

Performance
SecureSphere delivers gigabit throughput while maintaining sub-millisecond packet latency. This allows enterprises to deploy sophisticated attack protection that meet their data center’s stringent service level requirements.

Security
SecureSphere provides a complete solution for securing the data center from attack. SecureSphere’s IPS provides broad protection against worm and platform attacks across all protocols. In addition, special protection, based on both advanced IPS capability and Dynamic Profiling, is applied to data center elements such as Web, Web services and database protocols. SecureSphere’s Dynamic Profiling technology combines both a dynamic positive security model and a dynamic negative security model to accurately recognize and block even the most sophisticated attacks on the data center, including Web and Web Services application hacking and direct database attacks.

Scalability
A single SecureSphere gateway is sufficient for many enterprise data centers and SecureSphere can scale to meet the requirements of the largest enterprise by deploying multiple gateways managed from a single unified management server.

Lowest Barrier to Deployment
Unlike other solutions, SecureSphere’s Transparent Inspection architecture requires no changes to the existing applications and network infrastructure, greatly reducing the time and cost of deployment.

Lowest Ongoing Cost of Operations
SecureSphere requires no ongoing manual tuning because Dynamic Profiling allows it to automatically adapt to application and database changes as they are deployed.

Visibility for Audit and Compliance
SecureSphere automatically creates a baseline of legitimate usage, allowing organizations to implement regulatory compliance processes without costly manual discovery processes. When combined with SecureSphere’s centralized management, reporting and forensics, this provides a cost-effective means to implement the monitoring and controls critical to achieving and demonstrating regulatory compliance to regulations such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), Gramm-Leach-Bliley (GLB) and CA SB1386.

Pricing and availability

Version 4.0 of the SecureSphere Dynamic Profiling Firewall and the SecureSphere G8 Gateway are currently available worldwide. Customers with active subscription contracts are entitled to all of the new features and functionality of version 4.0. Pricing for the G8 Gateway starts at $60,000.

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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