The WAF has been a good friend to the CDN industry for the last couple of years. For some, it has been a life saver. But as the CDN WAF 1.0 starts to age, CDNs must evolve their WAF’s to
The current security business model needs radical transformation. The force needed to disrupt the security industry is only likely to come from an external group. Sure, the security industry is innovating at the fastest pace ever, but when compared to
In the last two weeks, the world of cyber security has permanently changed. We have reached a major turning point, and there’s no going back. There are no more rules and no more boundaries. Unfortunately, everyone is fair game –
It’s that time of the year now, where we select the top two CDN business models for 2015. Last year, we nominated Instart Logic and Aryaka Networks. This year, we have selected Imperva Incapsula for having the most disruptive CDN
Top News Stories 1. China Telecom and IBM Push MobileFirst for iOS China Telecom, China’s largest fixed-line operator and cloud provider, has formed a deal with IBM to offer and manage enterprise apps for Apple devices. China Telecom will host
Significant Developments of the Week 1. China Unicom and Huawei to Innovate Smart Home Gateway China Unicom, ranked as the world’s third-biggest mobile provider, has announced a new partnership between China Unicom’s Research Institute and Huawei to innovate the Fiber
The CDN feature set continues to evolve as new CDNs entering the ecosystem continue to push the envelope in feature set innovation. Features that were once the domain of the traditional security appliance are now finding there way into the
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
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,
Product Management is the place where innovation begins, ideas turn into features, and features turn a mediocre CDN into an innovation driven CDN. There are three pillars to CDN Product Management: engineering, marketing and sales. When these three pillars work
The CyberSecurity CDNs are definitely in the right market, and must have their eyes fixated on the much bigger security pie, dominated by the likes of Cisco, Palo Alto, FireEye and Fortinet. In 2015, Gartner estimates the global cyber security
CloudFlare CEO Matthew Prince (Prince) sits down with CEO of Chase and says “I know you spend $200M annually on cybersecurity, give me $100M, and I’ll protect you from cyber theft”. Then Prince sits down with Home Depot CEO, and
Chase spends $200M annually on cyber security, and yet they got blind sided with a security breach. If Chase spends $1B annually on cyber security, would that prevent a breach? Probably not, as Chase is already one of the most
It seems like we have another Target like fiasco on our hands, and this time it’s much worse, because Home Depot is 3X the size of Target. According to Krebs, 2000+ stores have been impacted by a cyber security breach,
Today, the CDN Ecosystem is dramatically different than that of 2007. Not only is the current CDN market larger, but it’s bound to explode in the next five years from $3B to $12B+, due to the changes in the Internet
