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) refers to commercial activities including the electronic buying or selling products and services which are conducted on online platforms or over the Internet. E-commerce draws on technologies such as mobile co ...
web sites – against all forms of
Distributed Denial of Service
In computing, a denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) is a cyberattack 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 conne ...
(
DDoS
In computing, a denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) is a cyberattack 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 co ...
) 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, security researcher, and a former hacker.
Early life and education
The son of a lawyer, Lyon was raised in Auburn, California. Although he initially struggled in s ...
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
Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP) is an American venture capital and private equity firm headquartered in San Francisco. Outside the United States, it has offices in India, Israel, Hong Kong, and the United Kingdom. In 2024, Venture Capital Journa ...
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 cyberattack 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 co ...
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