Imperva

Imperva is a cyber security software and services company which provides protection to enterprise data and application software. The company is headquartered in San Mateo, California. Contents 1 History 2 Service and features 3 Awards and recognitions 4 References 5 External links History Imperva, originally named WEBcohort, was founded in 2002 by Shlomo Kramer, Amichai Shulman and Mickey Boodaei.[1] The following year the company shipped its first product, SecureSphere Web Application Database Protection, a web application firewall.[2] In 2004, the company changed its name to Imperva.[3] In 2011, Imperva went public and was listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: IMPV).[4] In 2014, the company acquired the remaining shares of Incapsula, a Cloud Application Security Broker CASB startup named SkyFence, and real-time mainframe security auditing agents from Tomium Software.[5] In August 2014, Imperva named Anthony Bettencourt CEO.[6] In 2016, Imperva published a free scanner designed to detect devices infected with, or vulnerable to, the Mirai botnet.[7] In February 2017, Imperva sold Skyfence to Forcepoint for $40 million.[8] In February 2017, Imperva purchased Camouflage, a data masking company.[9] In August 2017, Imperva named Chris Hylen, the former CEO of Citrix GetGo, as its new president and CEO.[10] Imperva's former CEO, Anthony Bettencourt, resigned as chairman of the board of directors in February 2018.[11] In August 2018, Imperva acquired Prevoty, a runtime application self-protection (RASP) security company.[12] Also in 2018, Imperva identified a bug in the popular web browser Google Chrome which had been allowing attackers to steal information via HTML tags for audio and video files.[13] In 2019, Imperva was acquired by private equity firm Thoma Bravo.[14] In July of that year, Imperva acquired Distil Networks for its bot management capabilities. Imperva then suffered a breach of its own when it notified customers that it learned about a security incident that exposed sensitive information for some users of Incapsula, the company’s cloud-based Web Application Firewall (WAF) product.[15]CEO Chris Hylen left in October 2019 and Thoma Bravo Chairman of the Board, Charles Goodman, became interim CEO. In January 2020, Imperva named Pam Murphy Chief Executive Officer.[16] In October 2020, Imperva acquired database security startup jSonar for an undisclosed amount.[17]