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
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
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
Distil Networks, the San Francisco-headquartered bot detection and mitigation specialists, today issued  The 2018 Anatomy of Account Takeover Attacks Report focused on ATOs (account takeovers). The report draws on data from 600 domains, including login pages; 100 of which
On Tuesday (Nov 7, 2017), Distil Networks, the San Francisco based cybersecurity firm founded in 2011, announced additional enhancements to its Bot Defense Platform, immediately making available a new JavaScript development option to its customers. The new method completes Distil
The bot detection company Distil Networks announced today the rollout of Bot Defense for API, a bot mitigation solution for API security. Distil’s solution prevents bots from accessing public API servers for web and mobile, an underprotected area that is
Distil Networks announced today its release of a free plugin for Google Analytics that filters out bad bot traffic, providing site owners with a more accurate picture of A/B test results, conversion metrics, and other analytics. The new tool comes
Edge Security CDN (WAF + DDoS + Bot Mitigation) is the fastest growing segment in the CDN industry. Akamai security solutions is likely to reach $450M to $550M in 2017. CloudFlare is likely to generates $100M+ in sales this year.
Today, Distil Networks published its fourth annual bad bot report, which found that malicious bots attack 96% of all websites that require login credentials. Using anonymized data from domains across Distil’s global network, the 2017 Bad Bot Report studied hundreds
Distil Networks has just announced the release of their Universal ACL (Access Control List), which uses device fingerprinting to block traffic, providing companies a wider range of ways to block malicious users from their online applications. “A key piece of feedback
Akamai is out and Verizon EdgeCast is in. We never saw this coming. Distil Networks and Verizon EdgeCast have formed a partnership, where Verizon will resell Distil Network’s bot mitigation products. Distil Networks is the market leader of the growing
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
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
With the continued threat of cyber crimes together with an increasing demand for cloud services, there is expected significant growth in the cloud security market. According to IDC, cloud security accounts for 50% as an area of immense growth in
The Onion Network, otherwise known as Tor, is a free, open network browser that specializes in letting you surf the Internet without any form of network surveillance. It gets its name because of the way it routes traffic is like
