ClearPoint Metrics and Imperva Partner to Help CISOs, Auditors and Business Managers...

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Tue Jun 30, 2009 6:00am EDT

ClearPoint Metrics and Imperva Partner to Help CISOs, Auditors and Business
Managers Accelerate Data Security, Compliance Initiatives

BURLINGTON, Mass. and REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., June 30 /PRNewswire/ --
ClearPoint Metrics and Imperva Corporation today announced a collaborative
effort to deliver strategic intelligence on organizations data security and
compliance initiatives. The partnership will integrate Imperva's SecureSphere
Data Security Suite with ClearPoint Metrics' Security Performance Manager(TM)
creating a new class of security performance and risk metrics that will
provide visibility into the state, quality and effectiveness of data security
investments for chief information security officers, auditors as well as
business managers concerned about security. 

ClearPoint's Security Performance Manager will leverage information from
Imperva's suite to deliver intelligence in the form of performance metrics to
assess the business impact and effectiveness of key information security
initiatives. The SecureSphere Data Security Suite delivers a complete
lifecycle for Web application and database security in a single platform. By
securing transactions from the end user through the Web application to the
database, the SecureSphere Data Security Suite offers complete data security
and visibility and maps all assets on a network. The combination of these two
solutions provides a complete assessment of an organizations data risk
posture.

Data intensive businesses, particularly financial and insurance services, but
also the energy and retail sectors, depend on Imperva for full visibility and
control for business databases and the applications that use them. The
award-winning SecureSphere delivers full activity monitoring from the database
to the application and is recognized for its overall ease of management and
deployment. 

"This strategic partnership with Imperva came about through our mutual work
with a global financial services organization," said Jim Acquaviva, CEO at
ClearPoint Metrics. "We look forward to working with them to drive a new class
of enterprise performance metrics that enable organization to better
understand and communicate the impact of their investments in data security."

ClearPoint Metrics purpose-built solution for CIO's and CISO's enables
organizations to implement enterprise wide IT and information security metrics
programs. ClearPoint's portfolio of adapters provides connections to a large
number of critical security and business applications, including threat
managers, anti-virus, incident managers, intrusion detection and prevention,
identity and access managers, asset managers, network/system managers,
vulnerability scanners, and vulnerability and patch managers. 

"Imperva's mission is to help organizations secure critical data and achieve
regulatory compliance for their Web and database applications," said Rohit
Gupta, vice president of business development for Imperva. "Combining the
visibility and control of database activity provided by SecureSphere with
ClearPoint's Security Performance Manager's customers get a powerful, global
view of the state of their security infrastructure." 

About Imperva

Imperva, the Data Security leader, enables a complete security lifecycle for
business databases and the applications that use them. Over 4,500 of the
world's leading enterprises, government organizations, and managed service
providers rely on Imperva to prevent sensitive data theft, protect against
data breaches, secure applications, and ensure data confidentiality. The
award-winning Imperva SecureSphere is the only solution that delivers full
activity monitoring from the database to the accountable application user and
is recognized for its overall ease of management and deployment. For more
information, visit www.imperva.com.


About ClearPoint Metrics 

ClearPoint Metrics is changing the way organizations drive improvement and
assure compliance in IT and information security initiatives through the use
of metrics and scorecards.

ClearPoint Metrics solutions enable IT and Security executives and their teams
to consistently and reliably measure, monitor, and communicate the state,
business impact, and effectiveness of their IT governance, risk, and
compliance initiatives. Our solutions make it possible to easily access,
aggregate, and fuse together data from any application, server, or network
device, transforming it into useful security performance metric information
leading to higher quality communications and more confident decision making.

Our innovations take the cost and friction out of obtaining the hard facts and
data required for actionable IT and security performance assessments and solid
compliance reviews. ClearPoint makes it possible for business managers to
interact with security performance information in the context of their
objectives and use it to take meaningful action. For more information, visit
www.clearpointmetrics.com.


SOURCE  ClearPoint Metrics

Marci Acquaviva of ClearPoint Metrics, +1-617-456-1901,
macquaviva@clearpointmetrics.com; or Marc Gendron for Imperva,
+1-781-237-0341, marc@mqpr.net
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