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
Microsoft announced last week that it was integrating Azure Security Center with its Web Application Firewall (WAF) to give its business customers better security. Shalini Pasupneti, senior program manager, Microsoft, wrote in a blog post that web applications are under increasing
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
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
AWS Is Ramping Up Its DDoS Capabilities AWS is ramping up its DDoS capabilities, in which it details “best practices for DDoS resilience” in a white paper, aimed at enterprises with public-facing endpoints. A crucial factor in DDoS mitigation is
Incapsula, acquired by Imperva in 2014, is a cloud security and acceleration service. The Incapsula network has grown to 26 PoPs, with more planned. Although Incapsula started around the same time as CloudFlare, their business models are different, as we’ll
The time has finally arrived where we can officially carve out a new market segment called Edge Security CDN. The Edge Security CDN segment started when Akamai acquired Prolexic back in February 2014, having matured over the last few months,
Recently, we had the opportunity to interview Bob Lento, CEO of Limelight Networks, and he gave us the current state of affairs. We discussed several topics, including growing the business, long term planning, product roadmap, the next steps on the
Fireblade, an innovation driven cloud security startup has come a long way over the last twelve months. They offer a next-generation behavioral WAF, DDoS Mitigation, and protection against Bots and Scrapers. Fireblade is not a CDN selling directly to end-users,
Last week at Velocity, we had the opportunity to meet up with Laurent Gil, co-founder of ZENEDGE, a cybersecurity startup headquartered in Los Angeles. ZENEDGE is a cloud-based security platform built on global infrastructure, focusing on Web Application Firewall (WAF)
In 2006, a start-up by the name of Strangeloop Networks developed the Site Optimizer. It was one of the first products of its kind, and it became known as FEO (Front-End Optimization). Thereafter, two other FEO start-ups emerged, Blaze.io and
The Bizety team recently spoke at length with Yuri Frayman, CEO, of Zenedge. If you haven’t been keeping up, we previously published a two-part interview with the company’s CTO Leon Kuperman. This conversation revolved around Zenedge’s ability to protect large
Instart Logic has come a long way since our first conversation on January 7th, 2014. Prior to this date, all that was known about them was that which was presented in the media – the big rounds of funding and
CloudFlare was one of the first CyberSecurity CDNs in the ecosystem to focus exclusively in protecting websites from DDoS and Application Layer attacks using CDN infrastructure. Although Akamai has been providing WAF and DDoS Protection for the last few years,
