Incapsula
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| Founded | November 2009 |
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| Founder | Gur Shatz[1] Marc Gaffan[2] |
| Headquarters | Redwood Shores, CA, United States |
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Key people
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Gur Shatz,CEO[3] Marc Gaffan, VP Marketing & Business Development[3] |
| Services | Website Performance Security as a Service[4] |
| Parent | Imperva |
| Website | www |
Incapsula Inc. is a cloud-based application delivery platform. It uses a global content delivery network to provide website security, DDoS protection, load balancing and failover services to clients.[2]
History
Incapsula was founded in 2009 by Gur Shatz and Marc Gaffan.[5] The company originally operated under the company Imperva (NYSE:IMPV), a US-based data security company who owned 85% of the company.[2] It was spun out from Imperva in 2009 and reported to be growing at a rate of 50% per quarter as of August 2013.[2] It was also reported that Imperva has increased its ownership in the company since it was spun out in 2009.[2]
In August 2012 Incapsula launched Botopedia.org, an online community-sourced directory that consolidates information about active non-human entities (bots).[6]
Incapsula was attributed with protecting against one of the Internet's largest attacks on a website as of October 2013. The attack was said to have lasted nine hours with 100 Gigabits of traffic at its peak.[7] The attack was against BTC China, a bitcoin and yuan trading platform.[8]
Service and features
Incapsula has different features that are used in the security and performance of websites. These include web application firewall (WAF), DDoS mitigation and a content delivery network (CDN), which Incapsula uses for proxy acceleration and caching.
Incapsula WAF provides solutions to protect websites against SQL injections, cross site scripting, illegal resource access and all other OWASP top ten threats, and web 2.0 threats including comment spam, fake registrations, site scraping and malicious bots. It works by changing a website's Domain Name System (DNS) record to route the website traffic through Incapsula.[9] Incapsula then filters out malicious attacks from bots and website scrappers.[9] Incapsula also has a content delivery network that caches websites on their server network to speed up website load time. The cached information is returned from a server closest to the end user in order to provide fast page loads. This also eliminates slow response from central servers due to heavy server traffic.[10] Incapsula also has an abuse desk that receives complaints, then sends out boilerplate messages to people who complain about the spammers they host, which then sends a "you have not replied so we are closing the ticket" when the complainant fails to log in to update their in-house report. The fact that most complainants do not have an Incapsula userid or password to do so, and are not given one at any point in time, further protects spammers who use their 'bulletproof' services. This accounts for their numerous listings on SPAMHAUS for hosting known spamming organizations. [11]
Incapsula launched a tool named Backdoor Protect in 2013. The tool is reported to detect and disable malicious backdoors and also protect from backdoor threats. The tool works by comparing a website's traffic against a database of known backdoors.[12] Later that year, the company announced Login Protect, a two factor authentication feature as an integrated addition to its products.[13] Incapsula also announced in 2013 that it would be implementing Layer 7 load balancing capabilities.[14]
Awards and recognition
In 2011 Incapsula was chosen as one of the Top 10 companies to participate in RSA Conference Innovation Sandbox.[15] The same year they were a finalist for the Red Herring Top 100 North America Award.[16] Incapsula was named #1 for Best Cloud Based Security CDN by WeRockYourWeb.[17]
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