GoDaddy Debuts Imperva Web Application Firewall

Redwood City, California - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - July 28, 2008 - GoDaddy has initiated the SecureSphere Web Application Firewall (WAF), as part of its overall security system, to protect its website and all of its Quick Shopping Cart customers.



Bob Parsons, GoDaddy.com CEO and Founder noted, ''Our Quick Shopping Cart product generated more than 55 million dollars for our customers last year alone. There's no sign of slowing - in fact, online spending is predicted to grow by more than 17% in the next year according to Forrester Research. We understand the need of top level security for our customers and ourselves. We chose Imperva SecureSphere because we believe they are the very best. Protecting our customers and keeping the Internet safe is a top priority at Go Daddy.''



In addition, SecureSphere enabled Go Daddy to meet the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) June 30th deadline for complying with requirement 6.6, which mandates that a WAF be deployed or code review be performed to secure web applications that process payment card data.




In addition to having more than 30 million domains under management, The Go Daddy Group, Inc. offers a wide range of hosting solutions, Web site creation tools, SSL certificates, email, and e-commerce tools. The Quick Shopping Cart application enables businesses to quickly and easily create and manage ecommerce sites. These stores securely accept PayPal and credit card payments, offer multiple shipping options and issue coupons.

The SecureSphere Web Application Firewall enables businesses to efficiently maintain control over critical data, while providing secure and transparent protection for Web applications. To eliminate costly and complex manual tuning, the SecureSphere WAF uses patent pending Dynamic Profiling technology that automatically builds a model of legitimate behavior and adapts to application changes over time. SecureSphere protects the complete application stack, from the individual application to the server and network. Imperva's Transparent Inspection technology delivers multi-gigabit performance, sub-millisecond latency and options for high availability that meet the most demanding data center requirements. For large scale deployments, the SecureSphere MX Management Server centralizes and streamlines configuration, monitoring, and reporting across multiple appliances.

Shlomo Kramer, President and CEO of Imperva remarked, ''The SecureSphere Web Application Firewall was designed to meet the requirements of the largest and most demanding environments on the Web, like GoDaddy.com. The decision by GoDaddy.com to deploy Imperva is a powerful endorsement for the robustness of our platform in terms of both security and scalability. Protecting GoDaddy.com and its tens of thousands of Quick Shopping Cart customers is a proud achievement for Imperva.''

Imperva SecureSphere award-winning products deliver activity monitoring, audit and security for business applications and databases. SecureSphere products offer proven, automated capabilities for achieving, maintaining and documenting regulatory compliance. SecureSphere is the industry's only complete business-critical data security and compliance solution that provides full visibility into data usage by the end-user, through the application and into the database. Automated feeds from the security and compliance experts at the Imperva Application Defense Center (ADC) ensure that SecureSphere is always armed with the latest defenses against new threats, and the most recent regulatory compliance best practices.

Imperva, the leader in application data security, delivers activity monitoring, real-time protection, and risk management solutions for business applications and data. Imperva's practical solutions provide full visibility into sensitive data, database and application access, enabling granular control and maintenance of critical data. Over 4500 of the world's leading enterprises and government organizations in over 35 countries rely on Imperva's automated, scalable and business-relevant solutions to prevent data theft, data abuse and ensure data integrity.

Imperva and SecureSphere are registered trademarks of Imperva, Inc. All other brand or product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

Go Daddy is a provider of services designed to enable individuals and businesses to establish, maintain and evolve an online presence. Go Daddy provides a variety of domain name registration plans and web site design and hosting packages, as well as a broad array of on-demand services. These include products such as SSL Certificates, Domains by Proxy private registration, ecommerce web site hosting, blog templates and blog software, podcast packages and online photo hosting.



The Go Daddy Group, Inc. has more than 28 million domain names under management. Go Daddy registers, renews or transfers a domain name every second. GoDaddy.com is the world's No. 1 domain name registrar according to Name Intelligence, Inc. GoDaddy.com is also the largest paid hosting provider in the world, according to Netcraft Ltd. During 2007, The Go Daddy Group registered more than one-third of all domain names registered in the top six generic top-level domains, or gTLDs, including .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz and .mobi.



GoDaddy.com has also been honored by various industry organizations and publications as Best Registrar and Best Hosting Company already this year. In 2007, Go Daddy was named Arizona's Most Innovative Company and Business Leader of the Year.



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