Incapsula

Incapsula was founded in 2009 by Gur Shatz and Marc Gaffan.{{cite news |last=Reilly |first=Allison Midori |title=Protect Your Website, and Boost Its Speed, With Incapsula |newspaper=Small Biz Technology |date=20 October 2011 |url=http://www.smallbiztechnology.com/archive/2011/10/protect-your-website-and-boost-its-speed-with-incapsula.html/ |accessdate=12 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181214071147/http://www.smallbiztechnology.com/archive/2011/10/protect-your-website-and-boost-its-speed-with-incapsula.html/ |archive-date=14 December 2018 |url-status=dead }}{{better source needed|reason=It's promotional; a neutral source would be better.|date=December 2018}} The company has its origins in Imperva (NYSE:IMPV), an American-based cyber security firm which at the time owned 85% of Incapsula. It was spun out from Imperva in 2009. While reported to be growing at a rate of between 50%, 76% and 102% per quarter as of August 2013, the company lost over $1.7 million in the second quarter of that same year.

In February 2014 Imperva bought the remaining part of Incapsula and it became a product line within the parent company.{{Cite web |title=Imperva to Acquire Incapsula and Skyfence; Introduces SecureSphere WAF for Amazon Web Services |url=https://www.imperva.com/company/press_releases/imperva-to-acquire-incapsula-and-skyfence-introduces-securesphere-waf-for-amazon-web-services/ |access-date=2024-07-02 |website=Company |language=en-US}}

In 2013 Incapsula launched a tool named "Backdoor Protect". The tool is reported to detect and block malicious back-doors and "webshells". The tool works by comparing a website's traffic against a database of known back-doors.{{cite web |last=Kumar |first=Mohit |date=30 January 2013 |title=Incapsula Introduces Backdoor Protect |url=http://thehackernews.com/2013/01/incapsula-introduces-backdoor-protect.html |accessdate=28 October 2013 |website=The Hacker News}} Later that year, the company announced a two factor authentication feature called Login-Protect, as an integrated feature of its products.{{cite web |last=Selvan |first=Sabari |date=1 July 2013 |title=Incapsula Login Protection – Boost Your Website Security with Two Factor Authentication |url=https://www.cysecurity.news/2013/07/login-protect-website-security-2fa.html |accessdate=1 November 2013 |website=cysecurity.news}}

In October 2013 Incapsula was credited with having protected against one of the Internet's largest attacks on a website. The September 24, 2013, attack was said to have lasted nine hours with 100 Gbit/s of traffic at its peak.{{cite news |last=Kerner |first=Sean Michael |title=Latest 100 Gigabit Attack Is One of Internet's Largest |newspaper=eWeek |date=1 October 2013 |url=http://www.eweek.com/security/latest-100-gigabit-attack-is-one-of-internets-largest.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20131113154043/http://www.eweek.com/security/latest-100-gigabit-attack-is-one-of-internets-largest.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 13, 2013 |accessdate=12 December 2018 }} The attack was against BTC China, a bitcoin and yuan trading platform.{{cite news|last=Leyden |first=John |title=How mystery DDoSers tried to take down Bitcoin exchange with 100Gbps crapflood | newspaper=The Register UK |date =17 October 2013 |url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/17/bitcoin_exchange_ddos_flood/ |accessdate=11 December 2018}}

Incapsula also announced in 2013 that it would be implementing Layer 7 load balancing capabilities.{{cite news |date=15 October 2013 |title=Incapsula Brings Layer 7 Load Balancing Into the Cloud |newspaper=Broadway World |url=http://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwgeeks/article/Incapsula-Brings-Layer-7-Load-Balancing-Into-the-Cloud-20131015 |accessdate=1 November 2013}}

In December 2016 Incapsula reported that it had defended against the largest DDoS attack then recorded, which peaked at over 650 Gbit/s and 200Mpps.{{Cite web |date=2016-12-26 |title=650Gbps DDoS Attack from the Leet Botnet {{!}} Imperva |url=https://www.imperva.com/blog/archive/650gbps-ddos-attack-leet-botnet/ |access-date=2024-07-02 |website=Blog |language=en-US}}

Incapsula has multiple features that are used in the security and performance of websites:

• Application delivery control (ADC)
• Content delivery network (CDN)
• DDoS mitigation
• Global server load-balancing (GSLB)
• Web application firewall (WAF)

Incapsula WAF protects websites by changing their Domain Name System (DNS) records to route traffic through Incapsula.{{cite news | last =Cohan | first =Peter | title =Incapsula's Cloud Shields, Accelerates Your System| newspaper =Forbes| date =11 September 2001 | url = https://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2011/11/09/incapsulas-cloud-shields-accelerates-your-system | accessdate =28 October 2013 }} Incapsula then filters out malicious attacks from bots and website scrapers.

As of 2011 it was effective against cross site scripting, illegal resource access and all other OWASP top 10 threats, SQL injections, and web 2.0 threats including academic web archiving, comment spam, fake registrations, malicious bots, referrer spam, and site scraping.

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 to provide fast page loads. This also allegedly militates against slow responses due to heavy server traffic.{{Cite web |date=2023-04-11 |title=Incapsula Website Protection - DDOS Protection Services {{!}} Acmetek |url=https://www.acmetek.com/website-protection/ |access-date=2024-07-02 |language=en-US}}

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• [https://blog.incapsula.com/ Company blog]

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