Defense.Net is a privately held American information technology and services company. The company's business is to protect Internet-facing infrastructures – such as
e-commerce
E-commerce (electronic commerce) is the activity of electronically buying or selling of products on online services or over the Internet. E-commerce draws on technologies such as mobile commerce, electronic funds transfer, supply chain manageme ...
web sites – against all forms of
Distributed Denial of Service (
DDoS
In computing, a denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) is a cyber-attack in which the perpetrator seeks to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users by temporarily or indefinitely disrupting services of a host
A ...
) attacks at the network. Defense.Net operates a constellation of DDoS mitigation sites around the Internet which are capable of filtering and removing DDoS attacks real-time.
History
Defense.Net was founded by
Barrett Lyon
Barrett Gibson Lyon (born March 18, 1978) is an American Internet entrepreneur.
Early life and education
The son of a lawyer, Lyon was raised in Auburn, California. Although he initially struggled in school due to dyslexia, in middle school he ...
in 2012. Lyon was also the pioneer of the DDoS mitigation industry as the founder of
Prolexic, which was the first DDoS mitigation company.
In 2014, the company was named one of the 100 Hottest Private Companies in North America by Red Herring
and acquired shortly after by
F5 Networks
F5, Inc. is an American technology company specializing in application security, multi-cloud management, online fraud prevention, application delivery networking (ADN), application availability & performance, network security, and access & autho ...
purportedly for between $50 and $100 million.
In 2014, Defense.Net was acquired by
F5 Networks
F5, Inc. is an American technology company specializing in application security, multi-cloud management, online fraud prevention, application delivery networking (ADN), application availability & performance, network security, and access & autho ...
.
Financial history
In 2012
Bessemer Venture Partners
Bessemer Venture Partners (Bessemer) is an American venture capital firm. The firm has over $19 billion under management and invests globally, with offices in San Francisco, Redwood City, New York City, Boston, Israel, India, and London.
Bessemer ...
lead a Series A round of funding for a total of $9.5 million.
See also
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Denial-of-service attack
In computing, a denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) is a cyber-attack in which the perpetrator seeks to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users by temporarily or indefinitely disrupting services of a host connect ...
References
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External links
Defense.Net home page
American companies established in 2012
Companies based in San Mateo County, California
DDoS mitigation companies