F5 Networks Pounces on Fledgling Anti-DDoS Startup Defense.net

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http://www.cio.com/article/753201/F5_Networks_Pounces_on_Fledgling_Anti_DDoS_Startup_Defense.net

By John E Dunn
CIO.com
May 26, 2014

Less than a year on from its launch, DDoS fledgling Defense.Net has been 
bought by F5 Networks for an undisclosed sum.

There has been a wave of security acquisitions recently, driven by the 
willingness of investors to cash in at what some now believe is the 
current high water mark for the security wave of the last five years.

It's hard to say whether Defense.net has fallen to this trend or whether 
it's simply a logical next step to embed the cloud-based DDoS mitigation 
it offers inside a larger and better-resourced firm that already sells 
on-premise systems.

Defense.Net's launch pitch was also about not simply blocking DDoS attacks 
but doing so in a way that didn't inadvertently cripple the systems it was 
supposed to defending or flood them with false positives. This might be 
another attraction; as DDoS mitigation has commoditised, vendors have 
looked for something, anything, to differentiate their offering from the 
many others out there. Given that its technology is recent, Defense.Net 
can plausibly can offer some of that.

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