OpenSphere Adds A10 Networks, Infoscience, and NTO to Bidirectional Integration Program for Audit and Protection Solutions

Foster City, CA, Feb 19, 2008 – Imperva®, the leader in application data security and compliance, today announced that it has added three new partners to Imperva OpenSphere, the industry’s first solution eco-system for delivering comprehensive data security and compliance solutions. A10 Networks, Infoscience, and NT OBJECTives (NTO) have joined OpenSphere to provide integration of their products with Imperva SecureSphere® appliances and simplify datacenter deployments.

“The addition of A10 Networks, Infoscience, and NT OBJECTives to OpenShpere furthers our goal of creating the broadest and most open ecosystem of pre-integrated technologies for meeting data security and compliance project requirements,” said Rohit Gupta, vice president of business development for Imperva. “These new partners expand the reach of OpenSphere into new areas including server load balancing and penetration testing.”

New Partners Broaden OpenSphere

The addition of A10 Networks, NTO, and Infoscience expand three of OpenSphere’s four integration categories (ContentIn, InformationOut, CompatibleWith, and DeliveryOn) which lay the groundwork for comprehensive and efficient data security and compliance deployment.

CompatibleWith – A10 Networks provides high-performance products that help organizations of all sizes accelerate, optimize and secure their applications.

ContentIn – NTOSpider is a leading web application vulnerability assessment tool.

InformationOut – Infoscience Logstorage is a Japanese language product for consolidated PC, server, network device, and application log management.

Joining OpenSphere

For more information on joining Imperva OpenSphere and a full list of member companies please visit www.imperva.com/partners.

Imperva OpenSphere – Partner Quotes

A10 Networks

“When designing Web Application Delivery networks — performance, reliability, and security are of primary importance,” said Lee Chen, founder and CEO of A10 Networks. “Together, A10’s AX Series Advanced Traffic Manager appliances and Imperva’s SecureSphere Web application firewalls deliver the industry’s best-of-breed solution to ensure applications are always performing, reliable and secure.”

Infoscience

“Centralized log aggregation is a powerful tool for security management, but requires the ability to collect data from a comprehensive set of resources across an organization’s IT network,” said Akira Watanabe, President of Ahkun, the sales and support organization for the Infoscience Logstorage product. “By joining the OpenSphere program we are able to add database activity and web application security logs to the Logstorage product and provide customers with a more complete view of information security events.”

NT OBJECTives (NTO)

“Web application scanning and Web application firewalls go hand-in-hand, allowing organizations to immediately mitigate vulnerabilities while addressing code fixes in normal development cycles,” said JD Glaser, CEO of NTObjectives. “We are pleased to join the OpenSphere program and provide customers with the security and operational benefits of outputting vulnerability scanning information to the SecureSphere solution.”

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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