Black Lotus, based in San Francisco with operations in LA is an up-and-coming DDoS Mitigation Provider focused on the Service Provider market. Its customers include OnApp and HubSpot. Black Lotus has five scrubbing centers in total, and protects companies against
We’re in the 3rd generation of DDoS Mitigation Services. The first gen DDoS Mitigation Services were defined by providers like Neustar, Prolexic and Verisign. Next, CDNs entered the landscape and were forced to offer DDoS Mitigation Services, due to the
On August 28, 2014, AlienVault published a report in which they detailed the structural specifics of an evolution in watering hole attacks. The main difference detected was a lack of malware, now replaced by a malicious JavaScript file executed from
Zenedge, the hot new CyberSecurity startup based in San Jose CA has just raised $3.5M in venture capital. Zenedge was founded by a veteran team of entrepreneurs who have vast experience working in the start-up ecosystem. Zenedge is a new
On October 27, 2014, CounterTack put on a panel discussion entitled “Bringing Awareness to Cyber Resiliency “ in Alexandria, Virginia. Michael Riley, managing editor of Bloomberg News, moderated the discussion, which included a distinguished group of security experts from government,
Bromium, the hot security start-up, was founded with its mission being to “restore trust in computing.” Bromium has pioneered the cyber security front with a unique approach; diverging from the traditional detection method, and instead focusing on a new tactic: isolation. Insisting that detection
A few brains from the Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands) and the University of Central Florida got together over a few drinks and created an “Ultra-high-density spatial division multiplexing with a few-mode multicore fibre”. In simple terms, it just means
It’s that time again, where we try to figure out the size of the global CDN market using sophisticated mathematics (adding). Trying to figure out the exact market size of the CDN industry is extremely difficult, since most private CDNs
Fresh off the heels of their recent Zero-Day attack, Microsoft is now facing yet another security breach, this time in the form of phishing. In a detailed report published by Trend Micro, the security software company deep dives into the
Bizety is publishing the 11th edition of the CDN Ecosystem Diagram. In this edition, we present the collapsing markets of CDNs and traditional security. New Gen Pure-play Security: The traditional security market, especially the endpoint segment is giving way to
Azure CDN, Akamai, EdgeCast, CloudFlare, Sitelock, Zenedge, Level 3, Distil Networks, Fireblade, F5 Networks, Radware, and dozens more offer DDoS Mitigation Services. The DDoS services include everything from the basic Layer 3/4 protection, to advanced protection against multi-vector attacks across
Level 3 has done a decent job offering network based security for the last several years. At one time, they resold Prolexic DDoS Mitigation Services to its large customer base. However, with Akamai acquiring Prolexic, that relationship is certain to
On October 21, 2014, Microsoft’s Security Advisory team alerted its customers to a recent zero-day attack, which has left all releases of Windows, outside of the 2003 server, vulnerable to remote code execution that hinges on user interaction. Execution is
Vietnamese news websites were down due to a power outage occurring at the data center of the host company, Vietnam Communications Corporation (VCCorp). Online newspapers such as giadinh.net.vn, nld.com.vn, and dantri.com.vn were inaccessible, as well as newswires soha.vn, cafeF.vn, vccorp.vn,
On the Azure CDN section of the website, there is one sentence that stands out, and it goes something like this “Azure CDN is built on a highly-scalable, reverse-proxy architecture with sophisticated DDoS identification and mitigation technologies to protect you”.
