The Web Application Firewall (WAF) is the cornerstone of the CDN security product portfolio. For public CDNs, it’s not just a security product but a significant growth engine impacting both the top and bottom lines. Akamai generates over a billion
The Web Application Firewall (WAF) has been a cornerstone of security for Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), particularly for major players like Akamai, Cloudflare, and Fastly. It forms the foundation of their security portfolios, which also encompass bot mitigation and API
Cequence Security was founded in 2014 by Ameya Talwakar and Shreyans Mehta, both of who worked at Symantec for a decade-plus. The company started in bot protection, describing itself as an Application Security Platform that automated application discovery, threat detection,
Traceable AI was founded in 2018 by Jyoti Bansal and Sanjay Nagaraj; the startup raised $60M in Series B and $79M in total, valuing them at $450M in May 2022. The most impressive part of all this is the founder,
Noname Security was started in 2020 by Oz Golan and Shay Levi. As the story goes, when the founders were required to write down a company name on a legal document, they wrote Noname because they had no name at
Salt Security, founded in 2016 by Roey Eliyahu and Michael Nicosia, is the leading API security startup in our lineup. In February 2022, the company raised $140M in Series D, $270M in total, and hit the unicorn milestone at $1.4
The startup API security market is coming into its own. Although this niche is relatively young, startups have raised hundreds of millions, and a couple has reached unicorn status. But, of course, we’re describing the pure plays, not the CDNs.
Cloud-based, zero-trust access and networking is the hottest trend in the security industry. The pure-plays in this segment are seriously challenging incumbent providers with a modern approach to securing the network, users, applications, and devices with a user-identity and device-identity
Netskope, the unicorn security startup that raised $400M and hired an army of architects from the CDN industry has built a massive global private network (overlay). By the end of 2019, their network (NewEdge) will span 50 PoPs and have
For the last six years, the bot detection company Distil has been releasing an annual bad bot report. The Distil Research Lab analyzed thousands of website domains across 2018, tracking hundreds of billions of bad bot requests. Distil’s report is
What does a company do when they raise $400M, are a leader in CASB (cloud access security broker), have a growing product line, earned Unicorn status, and hit a roadblock when it comes to global network performance due to legacy
Containerization has been swiftly gathering momentum in the IT industry with Gartner predicting that 50% of companies will use some element of container technology by 2020, up from under 20% in 2017. Kubernetes (also known as K8S) is the leading
The main product of cybersecurity company Distil Networks is bot detection and mitigation. The San Francisco HQ’ed enterprise uses a range of detection mechanisms to detect bad bots – from heuristics deployed by its security team to automated systems that
Cisco has long made a point of acquiring subsidiaries to extend its specializations into specific tech markets, including in recent years, energy management, machine learning, the Internet of Things (IoT) and cybersecurity. In so doing, the multinational tech conglomerate is
Distil Networks released new threat research on mobile bots on Wednesday, revealing how millions of mobile devices, which have been infected by malware, are being used to carry out bot attacks. Emanating from the bot mitigation company’s Research Lab, the
