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Unless the [Web] application was designed and built to cleanse user data before it reaches the database, it’s merely a gateway used by a remote attacker to hack into a database.
-- Adrian Lane, Securosis, August 10, 2012
Imperva's take: Business security requires protection for both data and applications.
Federal data breaches jumped 19 percent last year
-- US Government Accountability Office, July 31, 2012
Imperva's take: Federal agencies should implement solutions to address current cyber threats.
Web Application Firewalls (WAF) have seen increased enterprise deployment... Customers cite major benefits such as... staving off incoming attacks while application code is being fixed.
-- Jeremiah Grossman, CTO, WhiteHat Security, July 2, 2012
Imperva's take: Organizations today more than ever are deploying WAFs to protect their Websites from hackers.
Applications and data are the main focus of modern cyberattacks. However, existing identity, endpoint and network security solutions are insufficient for their protection.
-- Application Security Road Map Beyond 2012: Breaking Silos, Increasing Intelligence, Enabling Mass Adoption, Gartner, Inc., June 22, 2012
Imperva's take: Focus on the business assets, not the infrastructure.
Enterprises [should] consider an alternative strategy that relies less on developers and more on integrating defensive technologies – like Web app firewalls (WAFs), [and] database audit and protection (DAP) products... – into the enterprise application architecture.
-- Ramon Krikken, Gartner, Inc., June 20, 2012
Imperva's take: WAFs are essential; they're the only practical and effective way to safeguard Web applications.
The challenge is not the laptop, the iPad or whatever, the challenge is protecting the data
-- Carlos Rodriguez, Manager of Network Infrastructure and Security, Lathrop & Gage LLP, June 25, 2012
Imperva's take: Protect your data, it's the real target.
The best available protection against serious targeted attacks requires a layered defense
-- Mikko Hypponen, Chief Research Officer, F-Secure, June 1, 2012
Imperva's take: Your first layer should be protecting data at the source.
Security managers should carefully monitor personal health information and other sensitive data ... In doing so, they will uncover how and when patient data is most likely to be improperly exposed
-- Eric Johnson, Tuck School of Business, September 25, 2011
Imperva's take: Access to ePHI must be monitored and protected from unauthorized exposure
Imperva is a Leader with a strong-performing and scalable database auditing solution...
-- The Forrester Wave™: Database Auditing and Real-time Protection, Q2 2011, Forrester Research, Inc., May 6, 2011
Imperva's take: Imperva is a recognized leader in data security.
I don't see how we ever come out of this without changes in technology or changes in behavior...[companies] need to be hunting inside the perimeter of their network
-- Shawn Henry, Former Executive Assistant Director, FBI, March 28, 2012
Imperva's take: It's time for security strategy to focus on the business assets.
In an extended enterprise where security doesn't control the users or the devices, security must take a data-centric approach
-- Navigate The Future Of The Security Organization, Forrester Research, Inc., February 14, 2012
Imperva's take: Focus on the business assets, not the infrastructure.
55% of [IT and IT security professionals] believe developers are too busy to respond to [Web] security issues.
-- Larry Ponemon, Chairman and Founder, Ponemon Institute, April 26, 2010
Imperva's take: WAFs are a practical and effective way to protect applications from Web attacks.
