Founder Gur ShatzMarc Gaffan Headquarters Redwood Shores | Website www.incapsula.com Founded 2009 | |
Key people Anthony Bettencourt, CEO, ImpervaMarc Gaffan, General Manager Services Website PerformanceSecurity as a Service Profiles | ||
Imperva Incapsula is a cloud-based application delivery platform. It uses a global content delivery network to provide web application security, DDoS mitigation, content caching, application delivery, load balancing and failover services.
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History
Incapsula was founded in 2009 by Gur Shatz and Marc Gaffan. The company originally operated under the company Imperva (NYSE:IMPV), a US-based cyber security company who owned 85% of the company. It was spun out from Imperva in 2009 and reported to be growing at a rate of 50% per quarter as of August 2013. In February 2014 Imperva bought the remaining part of Incapsula and it became a product line within the parent company.
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 100Gbps of traffic at its peak. The attack was against BTC China, a bitcoin and yuan trading platform.
In December 2016 Incapsula revealed that it had again defended against the largest attack ever recorded, peaking at over 650Gbps and 200Mpps.
Service and features
Incapsula has different features that are used in the security and performance of websites:
Incapsula WAF provides solutions to protect websites against SQL injections, cross site scripting, illegal resource access and all other OWASP top 10 threats, and web 2.0 threats including comment spam, referrer spam, fake registrations, site scraping, malicious bots, and academic web archiving. It works by changing a website's Domain Name System (DNS) record to route the website traffic through Incapsula. Incapsula then filters out malicious attacks from bots and website scrapers. 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.
Incapsula launched a tool named Backdoor Protect in 2013. The tool is reported to detect and block malicious backdoors and webshells. The tool works by comparing a website's traffic against a database of known backdoors. Later that year, the company announced Login-Protect, a two factor authentication feature as an integrated addition to its products. Incapsula also announced in 2013 that it would be implementing Layer 7 load balancing capabilities.
Awards and recognition
In 2011 Incapsula was chosen as one of the Top 10 companies to participate in RSA Conference Innovation Sandbox. The same year they were a finalist for the Red Herring Top 100 North America Award. Incapsula was named #1 for Best Cloud Based Security CDN by WeRockYourWeb.
The 2015 Forrester Wave for DDoS Service Providers, naming Imperva as a leader among evaluated DDoS service providers.