Imperva, Inc. was an American cyber security software and services company which provided protection to enterprise data and application software. The company is headquartered in San Mateo, California.
French multinational Thales Group acquired the company for approximately $3.6 billion from private equity firm Thoma Bravo in 2023.
History
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