Lance Crosby’s security start-up StackPath is proving to be wildly profitable. Since they launched in July 2016, it has possessed the attributes more commonly associated with a veteran firm: 1M customers, 275 employees and $150M in investor funding at its
Who saw this coming? MaxCDN and Fireblade have been acquired by StackPath, a startup security-as-service-platform that raised $180M. StackPath is led by Lance Crosby, founder of Softlayer, and Andrew Higginbotham, former SVP of Cloud Technology at CenturyLink. In addition, StackPath acquired
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,
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
Sitelock, based in Scottsdale Arizona has just flipped the CyberSecurity CDN business model upside down. Sitelock is a CyberSecurity CDN that is larger than CloudFlare with 1M paying customers. The best part is that Sitelock doesn’t have its own CDN,
Bizety is publishing the 9th edition of the CDN Ecosystem Diagram. The ecosystem continues to grow, with two new additions that include Fireblade and Distill Networks. Both are exciting start-ups, that enter the industry with different business models. Fireblade is
Fireblade, a new type of hybrid CDN is changing the dynamics of CDN edge security. They have introduced innovative features into the CDN Ecosystem that once belonged to the FireEye’s of the world. The Fireblade platform is based on an
We are in beginning stages of a major shift occurring in the Cyber Security industry and CDN Ecosystem. It seems only a handful of companies understand what’s going on, and most are start-ups. Make no mistake, but the old guard
