Resources

The Forrester Wave^TM: Enterprise Database Auditing And Real-Time Protection, Q4 2007

According to Forrester, "Imperva offers the most comprehensive database auditing solution to support rigorous enterprise auditing requirements. SecureSphere's centralized management server supports central administration of audit data and policies through a single GUI, making it easier to deploy across many databases and servers..."

Gartner – Hype Cycle for Data and Application Security, 2007 (registration required)

This report from Gartner describes the growing realization in the market that lines between application security and data protection are blurring. “As enterprises begin to improve data security, they need to implement strategies that might cross a simple line, such as ‘application' and ‘database'.” As you research data security offerings, use this report to understand how current data and application security technologies overlap. This report underlines the importance of selecting technologies that protect sensitive data throughout its entire lifecycle – through applications and databases.

Forrester Report on Web Application Firewalls (registration required)

"Application firewalls have grown from simple protocol validation systems to sophisticated application-aware products that can detect even protocol-valid traffic that is malicious or anomalous."

Yankee Group Names Imperva "Market Leader" in Web Application Firewalls (registration required)

mperva 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.

Free Yankee Group Report: Security Begins at the Database Level (registration required)

Read this report on Database Security from The Yankee Group Senior Analyst Phebe Waterfield. Enterprises are adopting more stringent controls for database security and compliance, raising the standards that organizations must meet. Meeting these more stringent requirements is possible using emerging database security gateways such as SecureSphere from Imperva. In this Yankee Group DecisionNote, Senior Analyst Phebe Waterfield assesses new database security tools and provide guidance to enterprises considering a purchase.

Imperva Takes Control of the Datacenter (registration required)

"Imperva's SecureSphere Database Monitoring Gateway unobtrusively addresses the end-to-end auditing requirements of the chain of data security. The datacenter becomes more secure and compliance requirements for database auditing can be met with no impact on deployed applications… Imperva's SecureSphere product line allows security operations to provide independent oversight of the business application infrastructure, allowing the protected business to grow with confidence."