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Cybersecurity Pioneer: "Defense.Net's Secure Network Technology Provides Immunity from the Heartbleed Bug"BELMONT, Calif. --(Business Wire)-- Defense.Net, the only company designed to mitigate the increasing scale and sophistication of modern Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, today released statements from the company's founder, Barrett Lyon, on the "Heartbleed" vulnerability announced last night that has exposed more than half a million websites and may be one of the most catastrophic bugs in secure computing history. Barrett Lyon, co-founder and CTO of Defense.Net (Photo: Business Wire) Lyon, whose pursuit of hackers operating as part of the Russian mob was chronicled in the best-selling book Fatal System Error, and who created what is now the $1 billion DDoS mitigation industry more than 10 ears ago, noted the following:
More details can be found on Lyon's blog (http://www.blyon.com/) which will be updated as more is uncovered about this vulnerability. About Defense.Net Founded by Barrett Lyon, who created the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack mitigation industry more than 10 years ago, Defense.Net has combined the top minds in the DDoS space with breakthrough new technologies designed to effectively address today's and tomorrow's DDoS mitigation challenges. It is the only company to defend businesses and organizations against this new generation of massive and sophisticated DDoS attacks while delivering the highest levels of Internet application performance - two areas where legacy DDoS mitigation services have not been able to match the modern strategies of today's cyberattackers. With increasing threats from the escalating scale and complexity of DDoS attacks and a growing number of antagonists willing to use them, Defense.Net protects organizations from modern attacks by providing end-users with a seamless experience as if no attack were occurring. The company has raised more than $9.5M in debt and equity financing with investors that include visionary security and Internet investor Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP). Photos/Multimedia Gallery Available: http://www.businesswire.com/multimedia/home/20140409006284/en/ |