Imperva, Inc. is an American cyber security software and services company which provides protection to enterprise data and application software. The company is headquartered in San Mateo, California.
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Company type | Subsidiary |
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NYSE: IMPV (2011–2019) | |
Industry | IT security |
Founded | 2002; 22 years ago (2002) |
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Headquarters |
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United States
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Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Pam Murphy (CEO) |
Products | Security software and services |
Owner | Thoma Bravo (2019–2023) |
Number of employees | 1,400 (2023)[1] |
Parent | Thales Group (2023–present) |
Website | imperva |
French multinational Thales Group acquired the company for approximately $3.6 billion from private equity firm Thoma Bravo in 2023.
Imperva, originally named WebCohort, was founded in 2002 by Shlomo Kramer, Amichai Shulman and Mickey Boodaei.[2] The following year the company shipped its first product, SecureSphere Web Application Database Protection, a web application firewall.[3] In 2004, the company changed its name to Imperva.[4]
In 2011, Imperva went public and was listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: IMPV).[5] In August 2014, Imperva named Anthony Bettencourt as CEO.[6] In 2016, it 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 August 2017, the company named Chris Hylen, the former CEO of Citrix GetGo, as its new president and CEO.[9] Its former CEO, Anthony Bettencourt, resigned as chairman of the board of directors in February 2018.[10] In 2018, Imperva identified a bug in Google Chrome which had been allowing attackers to steal information via HTML tags for audio and video files.[11]
In 2019, Imperva was acquired by private equity firm Thoma Bravo.[12] That same year, Imperva 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.[13] 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 as CEO.[14]
In July 2023, Imperva agreed to be acquired by the French multinational Thales Group for $3.6 billion.[15] The acquisition was completed on December 4, 2023.[16]
In 2014, Imperva acquired the complete shares of Incapsula, a cloud application security startup named SkyFence, and real-time mainframe security auditing assets from Tomium Software.[17] In February 2017, the company purchased Camouflage, a data masking company.[18]
In August 2018, Imperva acquired Prevoty, a runtime application self-protection (RASP) security company.[19] In July 2019, it acquired Distil Networks for its bot management capabilities. In October 2020, Imperva acquired database security startup jSonar for an undisclosed amount.[20]
Imperva’s software stack contains products for both application and data security. It provides layered protection to ensure a company’s website located on-premises, in the cloud, or in a hybrid environment. The application security software includes Web Application Firewall (WAF), DDoS Protection, Runtime Application Self-Protection (RASP), API Security, bot management, Account Takeover (ATO) protection, attack analytics and application delivery; and the data security software includes Data Activity Monitoring (DAM), data risk analytics, data masking, discovery and assessment and file security.[21][22][23][24]