Verizon Digital Media Services and Distil Networks announced today a partnership between their companies that will deliver bot mitigation services across Verizon’s Edgecast CDN. This partnership will expand on Verizon’s current security offerings, which offer WAF, anti-DDoS, DNS protection, TLS encryption, and
In a previous post, we explained how Akamai could hurt the competition and capture market share by dropping its data transfer prices to $1/TB. The question is can Akamai’s business model thrive at $1/TB for data transfer? There are two schools
Bot detection and mitigation is the the hottest market within our industry. Finding effective ways to manage sophisticated human-like bots is becoming more difficult, due to the advanced techniques being used by attackers, which can imitate browser activity that seems
On Friday, we predicted that Akamai would acquire a bot mitigation company within 3 months. Three days later, Akamai acquires Cyberfend, a bot mitigation company. This is a record for us. Some of our predictions have come true and others
Unbotify, a security startup focused on bot detection and mitigation, is the latest company to join the super-hot security segment. Yaron Oliker and Alon Dayan founded Unbotify in 2015, and it is one of the very few pure-play bot mitigation companies
There are companies in the bot mitigation sector that have built platforms which can tell good bots from bad bots. Google bots are good bots, whereas bots that steal credit card data are bad bots. However, bots are getting more advanced all
The DDoS mitigation business has become a commodity. The CDN WAF business is the great product of yesterday. And the bot mitigation industry, which also includes the online fraud market, is the hottest segment in our ecosystem. There are winners
Distil Networks has unveiled the Hi-Def Fingerprint, an augmented device fingerprinting method that identifies unique devices more accurately than standard techniques. Finding a reliable and unique method of identification has historically been a tricky endeavor. As an analogy, Distil cites
Cybersecurity startup Shape Security has finally revealed that they have closed a $40 million funding round, which includes a strategic investment from Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s (HPE) Hewlett Packard Pathfinder program. Shape Security Raises $40 Million
Instart Logic, the Palo Alto-based provider of application delivery solutions, has announced the debut of its endpoint-aware application delivery solution, which is currently available in the Oracle Cloud Marketplace for the convenience of Oracle customers. Its platform combines machine learning,
Convergence within the CDN industry began to take shape in the early part of 2015. This year, convergence will accelerate, reshaping incumbent business models and inspiring new ones in the process. The convergence is likely to echo the disruption that
PerimeterX, a security based startup has just come out of stealth mode. They have developed a security service called the PerimeterX Bot Defender that protects online companies from automated attacks, including bot attacks, DDoS attacks, zero-days threats, brute force, price
Reblaze is an up-and-coming startup that has burst onto the CDN scene with an innovative feature-rich cloud security platform. The founding team are security veterans with years of industry experience, and they’ve built a holistic feature-rich SaaS security platform for
Distil Networks has just released its third annual Bad Bot Landscape Report. Distil has the largest library of bots in the industry and specializes in bot mitigation security. Bots can be a diverse group of website and API predators. They
Shape Security has come a long way in a short period of time, recently raising $25M in Series D, fattening their war chest to $91M. Shape Security is an interesting startup, stacked with executives from government agencies and Internet giants
