| Company type | Privately held company |
|---|---|
| Industry | Information Technology & Services |
| Founded | 2012 |
| Headquarters | Belmont, California, USA |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Website | www.defense.net |
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 web sites – against all forms of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) 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 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 purportedly for between $50 and $100 million.
In 2014, Defense.Net was acquired by F5 Networks.
Financial history
In 2012 Bessemer Venture Partners lead a Series A round of funding for a total of $9.5 million.
See also
References
- Sposito, Sean (6 August 2013). "Prolexic Founder Launches DDoS Startup". American Banker.
- "2014 Red Herring North America: Winners". Red Herring. 20 April 2014.
- Novet, Jordan (22 May 2014). "Network company F5 buys DDoS prevention startup Defense.net". VentureBeat.
- Team, Trefis. "F5 Expands Its Security Portolio With Defense.Net". Forbes. Retrieved 2020-04-14.
- Lawler, Ryan (30 September 2013). "Cyber Security Expert Barrett Lyon Brings Defense.net Out Of Stealth To Battle A New Wave Of DDoS Attacks". TechCrunch.