Imperva planned to keep its CEO through a merger. Two months after a breach, he’s out.
Two months after Imperva disclosed a data breach, the CEO of the enterprise security company reportedly has resigned. Chris Hylen left his position on Oct. 21,. Hylen began in that role in August 2017, according to his LinkedIn page, and led the company to a reported $2.1 billion acquisition by Thoma Bravo, an American private equity firm. Imperva’s chairman, Charles Goodman, will assume the interim CEO position while the board seeks a permanent replacement, a company spokesperson said in a statement. “Effective Tuesday, October 22, 2019, Chris Hylen stepped down from his role as Chief Executive Officer,” athe spokesperson said. “This decision was made mutually by Mr. Hylen and the Thoma Bravo board.” The Israeli news outlet CTECH first reported the news. Imperva in August said that data belonging to customers of its cloud-based web application firewall product was exposed, resulting in the compromise of scrambled passwords, email addresses and SSL […]
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