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
Demand for cutting-edge bot detection and DDoS mitigation services has been growing in leaps and bounds in recent years, as the relentless arms race between hackers and cybersecurity researchers has bred a new crop of advanced cyberthreats. Recent, highly publicized
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
The latest DDoS attacks against Dyn and Brian Krebs are a defining moment for the CDN industry. Up until last year, large-scale DDoS attacks weren’t much of a concern to content delivery companies. Fast forward to today, and in the
Here’s the latest CDN Ecosystem Graph, which illustrates the overall landscape and various segments within the industry. The players are categorized into groups, who share similar attributes or provide similar services. One of the more exciting groups is Bot Mitigation.
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
Cloudflare has rolled out two new traffic control products, CloudFlare Traffic Control and Traffic Manager, that enable customers to control and direct how Cloudflare’s edge network manages their traffic. They are available in Early Access and will be publically available
DDoS attacks appear to be increasing in frequency and scaling in size. Most reports will show a near continuous stream of increasing risk and higher attack volume, but Versign’s Q2 2016 research report suggests that the trend has always been
The 1Tbps DDoS attack is a total game changer for the edge security business model. For starters, we can throw away the idea of small companies becoming a DDoS mitigation service provider. Unfortunately, the DDoS mitigation business is going the
After the two massive DDoS attacks last week, it’s time to re-think the DDoS Mitigation architecture strategy. Brian Krebs got hit with a 620Gbps DDoS attack and OVH with a 799Gbps attack. The interesting part – the 799Gbps attack was
In our quest for knowledge and insight, we’re going to start posting key videos that highlight important challenges in our industry – the industry being CDN, Cloud Security and Infrastructure. This presentation is from our friends over at Fastly. Tyler
Cloudflare is pushing for better quality internet encryption and they have recently announced the rollout of three new encryption features: TLS 1.3, Automatic HTTPS Rewrites, and Opportunistic Encryption. Cloudflare Releases New Encryption Features
Who would have ever thought that Akamai’s biggest customers shifting their content delivery efforts in-house and leaving Akamai with a ton of excess network capacity was a good thing? Well, it’s more than good – it’s great, because all that
Mid-last year, AWS information security executive Stephen Schmidt unveiled AWS’s open source implementation of SSL/TLS network encryption protocols, dubbed Amazon s2n, a sleek, nimble, and more intuitive means of encrypting a network.
