Imperva [IMPV] on Wednesday said it has acquired the assets of data masking firm Camouflage Software, Inc., adding data protection capabilities to the company.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed. California-based Imperva said the acquisition isn’t material to its financial results.
Imperva already uses Newfoundland-based Camouflage’s technology to help its customers, which helped drive the asset purchase.
“Through our OEM agreement with Camouflage, we saw the value of their data security offerings and how it helped to provide Imperva customers with the flexibility to use data assets while minimizing the risk associated with exposing sensitive data,” Mark Kraynak, senior vice president and general manager of Enterprise Solutions for Imperva, said in a statement. “Now we are excited to take the relationship a step further with the acquisition. We look forward to extending the Imperva solution to include data security functionality that can further protect against cyber-attacks and help customers achieve regulatory compliance.”
Camouflage’s data masking technology allows organizations to replace sensitive data that is in their business processes with fictional data that “conforms to logic embedded in the application,” Imperva said. The company said that masked data minimizes the number of places actual sensitive data is stored, which mitigates exposure to cyber threats.
The data masking technology also serves as a compliance solution for customers subject to data privacy and other regulations, Imperva said.
Imperva said it has also hired nearly all of Camouflage’s employees.