{{Short description|American I.T. company}} {{Infobox company | name = Defense.Net, Inc | type = Privately held company | foundation = 2012 | location_city = Belmont, California | location_country = USA | area_served = Worldwide | industry = Information Technology & Services | homepage = [http://www.defense.net/ 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<ref name="Sposito">{{Cite web |url=http://www.americanbanker.com/issues/178_151/prolexic-founder-launches-ddos-startup-1061138-1.html |title=Prolexic Founder Launches DDoS Startup |last=Sposito |first=Sean |date=6 August 2013 |publisher=American Banker}}</ref> 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<ref name="Red Herring">{{Cite web |url=http://www.redherring.com/events/rhna/2014-red-herring-north-america-winners/|title= 2014 Red Herring North America: Winners |date=20 April 2014 |publisher=Red Herring}}</ref> and acquired shortly after by F5 Networks purportedly for between $50 and $100 million.<ref name="Novet">{{Cite web |url=https://venturebeat.com/2014/05/22/network-company-f5-buys-ddos-prevention-startup-defense-net/|title= Network company F5 buys DDoS prevention startup Defense.net |last=Novet |first=Jordan |date=22 May 2014 |publisher=VentureBeat}}</ref>
In 2014, Defense.Net was acquired by F5 Networks.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2014/06/11/f5-expands-its-security-portolio-with-defense-net/|title=F5 Expands Its Security Portolio With Defense.Net|last=Team|first=Trefis|website=Forbes|language=en|access-date=2020-04-14}}</ref>
==Financial history== In 2012 Bessemer Venture Partners lead a Series A round of funding for a total of $9.5 million.<ref name="Lawler">{{Cite web |url=https://techcrunch.com/2013/08/06/defense-net/|title= Cyber Security Expert Barrett Lyon Brings Defense.net Out Of Stealth To Battle A New Wave Of DDoS Attacks |last=Lawler |first=Ryan |date=30 September 2013 |publisher=TechCrunch}}</ref>
==See also == *Denial-of-service attack
==References == {{Reflist}}
==External links == *[http://www.defense.net/ Defense.Net home page]
Category:American companies established in 2012 Category:Companies based in San Mateo County, California Category:DDoS mitigation companies