Thales Completes the Acquisition of Imperva, Creating a Global Leader in Cybersecurity
04 Décembre 2023 - 7:00AM
Business Wire
- Combination creating one of the world’s 5 leading companies
focused on protecting the heart of the digital ecosystem:
applications, data and identities
- With the integration of Imperva starting in January, Thales
will help organizations discover and protect sensitive data
anywhere, manage access and secure all paths to it
- North America is now the second largest country of
operations for Thales
- Imperva is Thales’ ninth acquisition in the digital security
area over the last nine years, and the second largest in the
Group's history after Gemalto
Thales (Euronext Paris: HO) announces today that it has
completed the acquisition of Imperva, earlier than expected
(previously foreseen at the beginning of 2024). This is a key
milestone for Thales, creating a global leader in cybersecurity,
with more than 5,800 cybersecurity experts across 68 countries and
€2.4bn in cybersecurity revenue expected in 2024, including civil
and defence activities, with double-digit growth expected
thereafter. This transaction will generate significant value
creation for Thales’ shareholders in line with the targets
communicated in July 2023, when announcing the acquisition. In
addition, the profile of Thales’ Digital Identity and Security
(DIS) activity will be significantly enhanced with new financial
targets by 2027 (2024-2027 organic sales growth of +6 to +7% and
2027 EBIT margin at 16.5%).
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Patrice Caine, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of
Thales, said: “The acquisition of the US company Imperva
is an important day for Thales, as it marks a new step in the
expansion of our global cybersecurity capabilities for enterprises
and governments around the world. We are very excited to welcome
the Imperva teams to Thales. The combination of our entities'
values and our joint commitment to a future of trust will create
significant synergies, business opportunities and major market
innovations. With ever-increasing cyber threats against business
and government digital infrastructure, Thales is now uniquely
positioned to help customers protect the heart of their digital
ecosystem: applications, data and identities.”
Data-Centric Security spanning across Applications, Data and
Identities
Together, Thales and Imperva will help customers address
cybersecurity challenges that have increased rapidly in frequency,
severity, and complexity, with the most comprehensive solutions for
the broadest range of application, data security, and identity
use cases. These three market segments combined are forecasted
to grow significantly in the coming years. According to analysts’
forecast, worldwide end-user spending is projected to total around
$20 billion in 2024.
With the addition of Imperva, Thales’ expanded cybersecurity
portfolio now offers a highly complementary combination of
solutions to help customers secure applications, data and
identities across their entire digital ecosystem:
- Application Security: Unified protection for every
application and API in the cloud, on-premises, or in a hybrid
model. The market leading product suite includes Web Application
Firewall (WAF), Distributed Denial of Service attack (DDoS)
Protection, Advanced Bot Protection, Application Programming
Interface (API) Security, a developer-friendly Content Delivery
Network (CDN), and Runtime Application Self-Protection (RASP).
- Data Security: Protection and control of access to
sensitive data anywhere whether at rest, in motion or in use. The
product suite includes the CipherTrust Data Security Platform,
Imperva Data Security Fabric, as well as the Luna and payShield
Hardware Security Modules, often used as the root of trust for
cryptographic operations.
- Identity & Access Management: seamless, secure and
trusted access to applications and digital services for customers,
employees and partners. The product suite includes the OneWelcome
Identity Platform and SafeNet Trusted Access.
“As a long-standing partner of both Thales and Imperva, we at
Exclusive Networks are delighted with the combination of two
companies that we know and value,” said Jesper Trolle, CEO
Exclusive Networks. “This acquisition marks a key step in
Thales' ambition to become a global leader in cybersecurity,
reinforcing its strength in data security and expanding into the
buoyant application security market. With this new combined value
proposition, Thales will be uniquely positioned to offer even more
innovative and effective solutions to address the growing security
and compliance challenges faced by organisations around the
world.”
This is Thales’ ninth acquisition in the digital security area
over the last nine years, and the second largest in the Group's
history after Gemalto, world leader in digital security.
After the completed acquisitions of Tesserent, the
leading player in cybersecurity in Australia, S21sec &
Excellium, two major players in cybersecurity consulting,
integration and managed services in Europe, and OneWelcome,
a European leader in Customer Identity and Access Management, the
integration of Imperva within Thales will position the Group’s
cybersecurity business as one of the top 5 global leaders in
cybersecurity.
Thales in North America
With 6,200 employees1 and €2.4 billion revenues2 in North
America in 2022, and approximately 50% of the free float shares
held by U.S. shareholders, Thales already has a strong presence in
the region. The acquisition of Imperva increases Thales’ digital
security workforce in North America by almost a third.
Each year, Thales invests €4 billion in R&D, of which €1
billion is self-financed3. The Group is fully committed to
supporting Imperva’s customers and augmenting its solutions through
accelerated innovations. As an innovator, Thales has a total of
20,000 patents in its portfolio, more than 50% of these involve key
technologies related to AI, generative artificial intelligence,
cybersecurity, big data, the cloud, augmented reality and quantum
technologies.
About Thales
Thales (Euronext Paris: HO) is a global
leader in advanced technologies within three domains: Defence &
Security, Aeronautics & Space, and Digital Identity &
Security. It develops products and solutions that help make the
world safer, greener and more inclusive.
The Group invests close to €4 billion a
year in Research & Development, particularly in key areas such
as quantum technologies, Edge computing, 6G and cybersecurity.
Thales has 77,000 employees4 in 68
countries. In 2022, the Group generated sales of €17.6 billion.
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_____________ 1 Including GTS employees 2 Without GTS revenues 3
Group-level data 4 Excluding the Transport business, which is
currently being divested
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