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REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., November 18, 2014 – Imperva Inc. (NYSE: IMPV), pioneering the third pillar of enterprise security with a new layer of protection designed specifically for physical and virtual data centers, today announced SecureSphere version 11 and, with it, a new real-time agent-based solution designed to keep high-value data assets in Big Data deployments safe, yet accessible. The SecureSphere Agent for Big Data supports two of the world’s most popular Hadoop distributions, Cloudera and Hortonworks. This release delivers on the company’s commitment to introduce real-time agent-based technology for Big Data audit and protection.

“With version 11, we’re giving our customers a way to protect the very large and complex data sets that live in Big Data environments,” said Mark Kraynak, Chief Product Officer of Imperva.  “Protecting data, in all its permutations, is at the heart of what we do, and SecureSphere Agent for Big Data will enable our customers to protect against costly non-compliance fines and data breaches as they leverage their Big Data deployments to build business value.”

According to Gartner, “CISOs must now protect data that is expanding in volume, variety and velocity, as market competition is forcing business units to adopt new cloud and big data services and applications. Big data environments enable data to be transposed between structured, unstructured and semistructured formats, enabling data to flow between them, and through applications and analytics. The concept of data silos and the application of data security governance, based upon the structure of stored data, are broken. This will expose uncoordinated data security policies and management, and is a recipe for security chaos.”^[1]

SecureSphere Agent for Big Data is a key step in the Imperva journey toward delivering on its vision of protecting data in all repositories, fixing what’s broken about today’s data silos and reducing security chaos along the way. Working in conjunction with the SecureSphere Database Activity Monitor (DAM), the new Big Data solution offers the broadest coverage in the industry with protection for applications as well as data across structured, unstructured, semi-structured, and cloud repositories.

The SecureSphere DAM solution provides unique scalability and efficiency, and low total cost of ownership. As part of that approach, SecureSphere Agent for Big Data has been architected to scale for the volume, velocity and variety inherent in Big Data environments. That is in sharp contrast to solutions that offer Big Data agents designed to address the scaling requirements of traditional RDBMS environments.

When it comes to meeting security and compliance requirements for protecting data, coverage is critical. Today, the majority of organizations do not have sufficient data protection for their Big Data deployments, leaving them at risk for compliance-related penalties and data breaches. With SecureSphere Agent for Big Data, customers can efficiently demonstrate Big Data compliance through automated processes, audit analysis, customizable reports and a unique efficient approach to monitor Big Data activities.

SecureSphere Agent for Big Data will be widely available by the end of this year.

Imperva also announced today its new ThreatRadar Bot Protection Service, an add-on for the SecureSphere Web Application Firewall (WAF).

Additional resources:

• SecureSphere Agent for Big Data data sheet
• ThreatRadar Bot Protection Services data sheet
• Big Data Blog, “The Elephant in the Room”

About Imperva

Imperva, pioneering the third pillar of enterprise security, fills the gaps in endpoint and network security by directly protecting high-value applications and data assets in physical and virtual data centers. With an integrated security platform built specifically for modern threats, Imperva data center security provides the visibility and control needed to neutralize attack, theft, and fraud from inside and outside the organization, mitigate risk, and streamline compliance. Over 3,500 customers in more than 90 countries rely on our SecureSphere^® platform to safeguard their business. Imperva is headquartered in Redwood Shores, California. Learn more: www.imperva.com, our blog, on Twitter.

Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are subject to material risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ substantially from expectations. Investors should consider important risk factors, which include: the risk that our products are not adopted at levels that we anticipate; the risk that competitors may be perceived by customers to be better positioned to help handle security threats and compliance; and other risks detailed under the caption “Risk Factors” in the company’s Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or the SEC, on November 7, 2014 and the company’s other SEC filings. You can obtain copies of the company’s SEC filings on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov.

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