10 Facts About Prolexic Technologies

Prolexic Technologies was a US-based provider of security solutions for protecting web sites, data centers, and enterprise IP applications from Distributed Denial of Service attacks at the network, transport, and application layers.

In 2003 Prolexic Technologies was founded by Barrett Lyon and was the subject of a book Fatal System Error by Joseph Menn.

In 2011, Prolexic Technologies indicated it secured Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard level 2 compliance certification from the PCI Security Standards Council, which would speed deployment of remediation for compliant organizations during encrypted Application Layer 7 DDoS attacks.

In 2011, Prolexic Technologies completed two financing rounds led by Kennet Partners totaling in $15.

Prolexic Technologies said it would use the Series B money to support staff and augment its network.

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In 2013, Prolexic Technologies closed a US$30 million Series C funding round led by new investors Trident Capital and Intel Capital.

Prolexic Technologies provides three kinds of DDoS protection services to its clients: Monitoring and attack detection services, mitigation services that intercept attacks, and attack intelligence and post-attack intelligence services.

Many DDoS attacks are concerted efforts by sophisticated live attackers, Prolexic Technologies uses a combination of automated tools and human expertise as part of its services.

Prolexic Technologies is said to have mitigated the largest DDoS attack of 2011, which involved 250,000 computers infected with malware.

The cloud-based DDoS mitigation approach used by Prolexic Technologies employs technology to redirect traffic to the company's DDoS mitigation service, scrub the traffic, and send only legitimate traffic to the client site.