Imperva’s Shlomo Kramer Named CEO of the Year by SC Magazine
Pragmatic Visionary Recognized for His Role in Shaping Data Security at 2008 SC Awards Europe
“Receiving the CEO of the Year Award from SC Magazine is a tremendous honor, especially in our industry, which is characterized by very innovative and competitive companies,” said Shlomo Kramer, president and CEO of Imperva.
SC Awards
April 2008
"Imperva presented the strongest all-around offering"
In a recent review of the six leading Web Application Firewalls that help deliver your critical apps securely, Imperva was recognized as the industry leader. Reviewers hailed Imperva’s SecureSphere product as “the closest thing to a silver bullet for application security, based on its combination of adaptive learning and other techniques.”
Information Security Magazine
March 2008
The Tolly Group: SecureSphere Database Security Gateway Performance Report
An independent test conducted by The Tolly Group confirmed that the Imperva SecureSphere DSG delivers unmatched performance and sub-millisecond latency.
The Tolly Group
January 2008
Imperva Named Finalist for SC Magazine Excellence Award
Imperva announced that it has been named a finalist in the internationally recognized SC Magazine Awards program. SecureSphere was named a finalist for the Excellence Award in the Best Enterprise Security Solution category.
SC Magazine
December 2007
Imperva Wins Red Herring 100 Global Award
Imperva announced that it was named one of the top technology companies in the world by Red Herring Magazine and winner of the Red Herring 100 Global Award.
Red Herring Top 100
December 2007
Imperva SecureSphere Wins Editor's Choice Award from InformationWeek Magazine
SecureSphere Database Security Gateway received the Editor's Choice Award for database extrusion prevention systems from InformationWeek magazine, one of the industry's most respected independent testing organizations. SecureSphere was the only product to receive an "ideal" grade for visibility and understanding of database activity, detection, notification and blocking of attacks, and overall features.
According to InformationWeek's editors, "Right from the start, the Imperva SecureSphere Database Security Gateway impressed us with its plethora of features. Imperva's dynamic user profiling is almost reason enough to choose it. Other features, including stateful firewall, IPS, and database vulnerability assessment, are icing on the cake."
InformationWeek magazine and Web site
September 2007
"Having received more than 800 submissions, it is clear that we are witnessing a new outburst of creativity," says Joel Dreyfuss, Editor-in-Chief of Red Herring. "The Red Herring 100 North America companies are impressive up-and-comers, and definitely the ones to watch."
"For Imperva, winning this coveted Award is an honor and provides further evidence of our market and technology leadership," said Shlomo Kramer, CEO and founder of Imperva. "The Red Herring 100 is recognized around the world for identifying private companies, like eBay and Google that will become tomorrow's market leaders."
Red Herring 100
April 2007
Imperva wins 2007 Readers' Choice Award from Information Security Magazine
SecureSphere was honored with a bronze award in the database security category. Identifying Imperva a "market leader" in database security, the online review indicates that SecureSphere "drew strong approval from its customers, rating very well across the board to earn the bronze. SecureSphere scored well in every criteria: granularity of access controls and integration with existing infrastructure, scalability and management, data protection, customer support and alerting and reporting. Respondents said they're getting their money's worth."
Information SecurityTM magazine and SearchSecurity.com
April 2007
Imperva was named a finalist in the SC Magazine Awards 2007 Europe
Given SecureSphere's unique ability to automatically assess, monitor, and enforce data protection, data usage, and user accountability in Web based applications and databases, it was judged a finalist in the Excellence Awards: Best Security Solution for Healthcare category.
SC Magazine 2007 Europe
January 2007
SecureSphere Named One of 25 Best Security Innovations for 2007 by Financial IT Security Magazine (65KB PDF)
"Rivals don't track data access to the individual user...SecureSphere Database Security Gateway takes tracking to the next level by identifying the actual Web user for every database transaction whether that user is an employee, a partner or a customer. This granular view allows financial services companies to better secure their transaction data, document compliance with regulatory requirements, and help auditors assess how well the institution is protecting its data."
Financial IT Security Magazine
December 2006
Amichai Shulman Named to InfoWorld CTO 25 List
"Shulman notes that 'critical vulnerabilities' exist in all — not some — commercial database servers. Vendors and customers alike should be grateful for his efforts."
InfoWorld
June 5, 2006
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SecureSphere Named Editor's Choice for Web Application Firewall (118 KB PDF)
"Imperva's SecureSphere is our Editor's Choice." "From beginning to end, Imperva SecureSphere is our kind of WAF. Installation was a breeze." "SecureSphere's learning mode is also outstanding." "SecureSphere was the only appliance that not only allowed us the granularity of looking at signatures, but let us create our own signature dictionary." "Finally, the alert console was descriptive and not overwhelming."
Network Computing
April, 2006
Imperva Wins eWEEK Excellence Award
"Imperva's SecureSphere … in-line protection for both Web applications and communications with back-end databases is simply unmatched. While Imperva's Web application firewalls are exceptional — providing intelligent learning capabilities and granular application controls — Imperva truly differentiates itself from competitors with its insight into communications with the database."
eWeek
March, 2006
Shlomo Kramer Named to Top 20 People Who Changed the Network Industry
"Wherever there's an enterprise network, firewalls stand guard at its entry points. Some may argue that a garden-variety firewall no longer provides enough enterprise protection, but no one can deny how significant the technology has been for corporate security during the last decade. Kramer and his compadres at Check Point, including CEO Gil Schwed, get credit for inventing the firewall"
NetworkWorld
March, 2006
Imperva was named the Most Innovative Company at the invitation-only RSA Conference 2006 Innovation Station Showdown. Imperva competed against more than 40 security vendors who submitted nominations for this prestigious title. The Innovation Station program judges emerging companies based on their technology, vision, and market impact.
RSA Conference
February, 2006
Imperva named to Red Herring's Ten Private Security Companies to Watch in 2006
"Imperva takes the idea of a firewall from the network level up to the data level. It examines the way data is used and accessed to create a dynamic profile of the web and data security policy. By comparing profiled elements to the actual traffic, Imperva's firewall software can detect malicious activity coming from both the inside and outside the organization."
Red Herring
February, 2006
Yankee Group Names Imperva to "Winner" Category in Application Security Market
Imperva remains the only vendor that can credibly offer an integrated "vertical" stack spanning the web server, database and web service tiers. The company's continued emphasis on multitier protection, event correlation and automated baselining gives it a strong vertical integration play.
Yankee Group
December 19, 2005
CRN gives SecureSphere Database Security Gateway 5-Star Recommendation
"easy to install and manage, offers exceptional protection and has no negative impact on network throughput."
"the system learns who should be doing what from where and enforces policies when the access falls out of norms."
CRN
November, 2005
Imperva Selected as Finalist for Red Herring Top 100 Private Companies
Red Herring
April 2005
Imperva Named Finalist for Software Newcomer of the Year in 2005 "CODiE" Awards
Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA)
January, 2005
CRN gives SecureSphere Web Application Firewall a 5-Star Recommendation
"This technology is extremely effective at battling not-yet-recognized attacks, worms or intrusions, also called 'zero-day' attacks."
"Installation borders on plug-and-play simplicity, while administration tasks are almost completely automated."
September, 2004
InfoWorld product review gives Imperva the Highest Score in Application Security
"Installing SecureSphere can take less than a day..."
"SecureSphere provides excellent heuristics and data analysis with its Correlated Attack Verification engine."
InfoWorld
June, 2004