Exponant, a leader in delivering groundbreaking solutions using smart technologies and highly skilled people, and a value-added reseller for Imperva, today announced that the latter's SecureSphere solutions have been prominent in customers' minds, particularly in the financial and telecommunications sectors, as they seek to address application and database security challenges and the need to meet regulatory compliance requirements such as PCI DSS.
“Protecting sensitive data from external attacks and insider threats is not a trend, but a necessity,” commented Wolfgang Selzer, Director of Exponant. “The market consensus would appear to be that these risks, coupled with regulatory compliance mandates, need to be managed by a solution portfolio with full auditing, monitoring and security capabilities, and thus the SecureSphere offering from Imperva is an ideal platform to satisfy this need.
“The SecureSphere Data Security Suite is comprised of five components,” continued Selzer. “They are:
* A Web application firewall that provides security for Web applications;
* A database firewall for the auditing and protection of databases;
* A database activity monitoring toll that provides visibility into database usage;
* A discovery and assessment server capability for the discovery and assessment of databases; and
* An MX management server, which is a comprehensive and centralised data security management capability.”
“As users continue to exploit technological advances and the volume of information held by organisations continues to grow exponentially, so do the threats faced by enterprises become increasingly sophisticated,” concluded Selzer. "Fortunately there are tools available to counteract these potential threats, and it thus behoves companies to embrace their capabilities at the earliest possible opportunity.”
For further information, please contact Wolfgang Selzer, tel: 012 663 0160; fax 012 663 5678; e-mail wolf@exponant.com.
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Imperva
Imperva is a pioneer and leader of a new category of data security solutions for high-value business data in the data centre. With more than 1 500 end-user customers and thousands of organisations protected through cloud-based deployments, Imperva's customers include leading enterprises, government organisations, and managed service providers that rely on Imperva to prevent sensitive data theft from hackers and insiders. The award-winning Imperva SecureSphere identifies and secures high-value data across file systems, Web applications and databases.
Exponant
Exponant, originally founded in 1998, is a software, services and consulting company that includes a significant focus on monitoring and detection solutions in the areas of security, operations and application management.
In this regard, it is the master reseller in sub-Saharan Africa for Splunk and is a reseller for many global security brands such as AlienVault, Check Point Software Technologies, Guidance Software, Imperva, Palo Alto, TippingPoint, Trend and WebSense.
Although not exclusively focused on any specific markets, it is very strong in the financial, telecommunications, mining and engineering sectors.
Exponant is rated as a level 3 contributor BBBEE company and has customers from both the private and public sectors.
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