Fireblade (company) explained

FireBlade
Industry:	website security
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Area Served:	worldwide
Key People:	Shay Rapaport (CEO) Erez Azaria (CTO)
Products:	website security software
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Parent:	StackPath

Fireblade (acquired by StackPath) is an Israeli company founded in 2008.^[1] It developed the first cloud-based bot-management solution and a multi-tier SaaS security suite powered by reputational and behavioral firewalls, to protect websites against DDoS attacks, web application attacks and a variety of automated attacks, improving website health, security and performance.^{[2] [3]} It offers integration with cPanel and WHM^[4] Fireblade was founded by Shay Rapaport and Erez Azaria (CEO and CTO respectively).

Fireblade's extensive bot management solution offers protection against credential stuffing, brute force attacks, application layer DDoS attacks,^[5] web spam and scraping ^[6] It also offers dynamic performance optimization,^[7] a 30 Points of Presence tier-1 CDN and other tools.

Features

• Protection against
  • DDoS attacks
  • Spam, scraping and abuse control
  • CMS vulnerability exploitation
  • Brute force login/password attack
  • Web application attacks
  • Firewalls: reputational an behavioral
  • On top of a traditional firewall, these firewalls scan the behavior and the context, searching for possible attacks or threats and to expose which is human and which is a machine/bot.
• Dynamic site optimization
• A tier-1 CDN access with 30 global Points of Presence
• Load balancer and failover
• Monitoring tools
  • Uptime monitoring
  • Health & performance analytics
  • Security Forensic
  • Real-time alerts
• Mobile application for monitoring

External links

• Fireblade website

Notes and References

1. Web site: Company Overview of Fireblade Ltd.. BusinessWeek. 19 October 2014.
2. News: Screen scraping: How to profit from your rival's data. BBC News . 30 September 2013 . 15 October 2014.
3. Web site: Fireblade Reveals a New Behavioral Approach to Website Security. Pingzine. 15 October 2014. 9 October 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141009235619/http://www.pingzine.com/fireblade-reveals-a-new-behavioral-approach-to-website-security/. dead.
4. Web site: Fireblade Unveils Security, Speed and Monitoring Plugin for Hosting Providers on cPanel. Housting Journalist. 9 June 2014 . 15 October 2014.
5. Web site: Common Web Application Attacks and How to Prevent Them. Smallbusiness Yahoo. 15 October 2014.
6. Web site: Fireblade Brings Anti-DDoS Solution to Web Hosting Market at WHD.global 2014. The Whir. 16 October 2014.
7. Web site: 4 Tips to Speed up Your Site to Keep Traffic Flowing. The High Tech Society. 15 October 2014. 23 August 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140823061148/http://thehightechsociety.com/tips-to-speed-up-your-site/. dead.