Defense.net launches with $9.5M to stop big DDoS attacks
Summary
Barrett Lyon — founder of distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) mitigation company Prolexic, co-founder of content-delivery network BitGravity and a main character in Joseph Menn’s 2010 cybersecurity thriller “Fatal System Error” — founded the startup in December and has been building a network that can absorb a large, malicious DDoS attack while sending the good traffic to its intended destination. Defense.net has been in incubation at Bessemer Venture Partners, which is leading the startup’s $9.5 million Series A funding round. Lyon (pictured) and CEO Chris Risley declined to answer questions about the product, its customers, its revenue and so on. The company is not going to use Infrastructure as a Service as a sort of net for attacks to be shot into; instead, gear at multiple colocation facilities will do the job, Risley said. “We gave them the good traffic, so they could be back in business.” It will be interesting to see what the startup has come up with to stop DDoS attacks in the current age.
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