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Black Lotus Named to San Francisco Business Times’ 2014 List of 100 
Fastest Growing Companies
DDoS mitigation provider ranked No. 30 with 295.8 percent growth over 
two-year period

SAN FRANCISCO--()--Black Lotus, a leader in availability security and provider of distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection, today announced the company’s inclusion on the San Francisco Business Times’ annual list of 100 Fastest-Growing Companies in the Bay Area. The cybersecurity company reported 295.8 percent growth from 2011 to 2013, putting it at a final rank of number 30 in the overall list. As DDoS attacks continue to grow in frequency, Black Lotus’ growth is evidence of the increased industrywide recognition of the need for proactive implementation of effective cybersecurity measures.
“Our inclusion on this list is the result of long-term planning and a clear understanding of what the international enterprise market needs from its cybersecurity providers”
Since its creation in 1999, Black Lotus has been on a steady upward trajectory due to its consistent growth across both end-users and channel partners, as well as its growth in investment. Black Lotus also launched new scrubbing centers during the past year in Ashburn, Virginia and Amsterdam, both of which are capable of withstanding DDoS attacks of up to 1,000 Gbps. Lastly, the company has continued to build out its reach and audience through strategic partnerships in the data center market. Each of these initiatives demonstrates Black Lotus’ ongoing commitment to enhancing its DDoS protection technology and bringing its security-as-a-service solution to a wider market.
“Our inclusion on this list is the result of long-term planning and a clear understanding of what the international enterprise market needs from its cybersecurity providers,” said Arman Khalili, chief executive officer of Black Lotus. “We learned to make the hard decisions and take the right risks by building a multi-faceted team of staffers with diverse backgrounds, who are all more than capable of driving this company toward our end goal. By prioritizing these factors, we’ve been able to scale our company at a rapid rate and bring our vision of a safe and open Internet community to a global audience.”
Service providers and data center companies that are interested in DDoS protection services can contact Black Lotus at sales@blacklotus.net or call 866-477-5554.
About Black Lotus
Black Lotus Communications is a security innovator and pioneer of the first commercially viable DDoS mitigation solutions. These advanced solutions enhance the security posture of small and medium businesses and enterprise clients while reducing capital expenditures, managing risk, ensuring compliance, and improving earnings and retention. Breakthrough developments at Black Lotus include the world's first DDoS-protected hosting network, the first IPv6 DDoS mitigation environment, and the first highly effective Layer 7 attack mitigation strategy. For more information, visit www.blacklotus.net or follow Black Lotus on Twitter at https://twitter.com/ddosprotection.

Contacts

Metis Communications
Justine Boucher, 617-236-0500
blacklotus@metiscomm.com

Black Lotus Named to San Francisco Business Times’ 2014 List of 100 Fastest-Growing Companies

By Unknown → Tuesday, November 4, 2014
Black Lotus Ranks No. 795 on the 2014 Inc. 5000 with Three-Year Sales Growth of 574% 

NEW YORK, August 20, 2014 -- Inc. magazine today ranked Black Lotus NO. 795 on its 33rd annual Inc. 500|5000, an exclusive ranking of the nation's fastest-growing private companies. The list represents the most comprehensive look at the most important segment of the economy—America’s independent entrepreneurs. Companies such as Yelp, Pandora, Timberland, Dell, Domino’s Pizza, LinkedIn, Zillow, and many other well-known names gained early exposure as members of the Inc. 500|5000.

“A pure-play DDoS protection company is in good company with the quickly-growing service providers on the Inc. 5000, especially as more enterprises see the financial blow caused by DDoS attacks and build Black Lotus’ offerings into IT budgets,” said Warren Dewar, chief financial officer of Black Lotus. “Our triple-digit growth has fueled our international expansion to open traffic scrubbing centers in the U.S. and Amsterdam over the last three years, with more service rolling out to address our clients’ needs for fast, reliable traffic crucial to the success of their online commerce.”

The 2014 Inc. 500, unveiled in the September issue of Inc. (available on newsstands August 20 to November 15 and on Inc.com), is the most competitive crop in the list’s history. To make the cut, companies had to have achieved a staggering minimum of 942.6% in sales growth. The Inc. 500’ s aggregate revenue is $15.2 billion, with a median three-year growth of 1,828%, generating 23,000 jobs over the past three years. Complete results of the Inc. 500|5000, including company profiles and an interactive database that can be sorted by industry, region, and other criteria, can be found at http://www.inc.com/inc5000.

"What surprises me, even though I know it’s coming, is the sheer variety of the paths our entrepreneurs take to success, thematically reflecting how our economy has evolved,” says Inc. President and Editor-In-Chief Eric Schurenberg. “This year there are far more social media and far fewer computer hardware businesses than there were, say, six years ago. But what doesn’t change is the fearsome creativity unleashed by American entrepreneurship.”

The annual Inc. 5000 event honoring all the companies on the list will be held from October 15 through 17, 2014 in Phoenix. Speakers include some of the greatest entrepreneurs of this and past generations, such as Michael Dell, Martha Stewart, host of the CNBC show “The Profit” Marcus Lemonis, Container Store Founder and CEO Kip Tindell, and Chobani Founder and CEO Hamdi Ulukaya.

About Black Lotus 


Black Lotus Communications is a security innovator and pioneer of the first commercially viable DDoS mitigation solutions. These advanced solutions enhance the security posture of small and medium businesses and enterprise clients while reducing capital expenditures, managing risk, ensuring compliance, and improving earnings and retention. Breakthrough developments at Black Lotus include the world's first DDoS protected hosting network, the first IPv6 DDoS mitigation environment, and the first highly effective Layer 7 attack mitigation strategy. For more information, visit www.blacklotus.net or follow Black Lotus on Twitter at https://twitter.com/ddosprotection.

For more information, please contact: 


Justine Boucher
Metis Communications
617-236-0500


Black Lotus Achieves Record Breaking Growth

By Unknown → Thursday, August 21, 2014
As our company continues to develop its technology and expand its presence, it’s a positive sign when others are recognizing how we’re growing and enhancing offerings. We had a lot of positive feedback during RSA when our booth visitors saw the awards we’ve won in security technology. This week, we received the great news that Red Herring selected us as a finalist for its Top 100 North America award. This list puts us in excellent company with the year’s most promising private technology ventures from across North America, including GENBAND, Rapid7 and Infinio.

This award has a long history; Red Herring has been selecting promising start-ups and "scale ups" (a phase from which we’ve almost graduated) since 1995. The finalists are evaluated individually from a pool of hundreds of candidates across the continent, spanning markets including security, software and hardware, life sciences, cloud, mobile and more. We were scored based on criteria judging our addressable market size, financing, our proof of concept and our management's expertise, among a handful of other categories.

It reinforces our team’s hard work and dedication to researching new threats and developing new technology when outside individuals and third party reviewers can look at Black Lotus’ standing and see the same exciting solutions and rapidly developing potential that we’ve been seeing from day one.

Already 2014 is proving to be an impressive year. Alex Vieux, publisher and CEO of Red Herring, says, "The finalists list confirms the excellent choices made by entrepreneurs and VCs and the start-ups' solid roots in corporate America, embracing their innovations…[and emphasizing] the United States’ entrepreneurial excellence.”

Black Lotus will be attending the Red Herring North America Forum from May 14 to 16 in Monterey, California to present our company’s strategy, and the top 100 winners will be announced at an awards ceremony on the final night.

Interested in more updates on our status and an insider look at the ceremony? Follow us on Twitter to make sure you don’t miss out!

Black Lotus Named a Top 100 North America Red Herring 2014 Finalist

By Unknown → Friday, May 9, 2014
The Security Industry’s Coveted Excellence Award Winners and Finalists from all over the world were honored by Info Security Products Guide in San Francisco on February 24, 2014

Black Lotus announced today that Info Security Products Guide, the industry's leading information security research and advisory guide, has named Black Lotus, a Silver and Bronze winner of the 2014 Global Excellence Awards in the Best Overall Security Company of the Year and Awesome Product of the Year categories. The security industry celebrated its 10th Annual 2014 Global Excellence Awards in San Francisco by honoring excellence in every facet of the industry including products, people behind the successes and best companies.

More than 50 judges from a broad spectrum of industry voices from around the world participated and their average scores determined the 2014 Global Excellence Awards Finalists and Winners. Winners were announced during the awards dinner and presentation on February 24, 2014 in San Francisco attended by the finalists, judges and industry peers.

Black Lotus was recognized by ISPG for its Protection for Networks (PFN) service which enables any service provider or enterprise anywhere in the world to enable DDoS mitigation on their networks by rapidly turning up a GRE tunnel or connecting directly with Black Lotus at an on-net datacenter. PFN is differentiated from other DDoS protection services by the ability to use the service full time or on demand without any additional fees due to frequency of attacks or other metrics. Additionally, PFN has been particularly popular with service providers as it can be used to resell DDoS protection services on networks which do not have native DDoS mitigation capabilities.

Earlier this month Black Lotus customers were protected against otherwise crippling NTP DDoS attacks exceeding 400 Gbps in size when the company implemented global policies to block these attacks, even for customers which did not subscribe to larger mitigation plans.


Black Lotus defeats major competitors at 2014 ISPG Global Excellence Awards

By Unknown → Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Black Lotus announced today that Info Security Products Guide, the industry's leading information security research and advisory guide, has named our company as a finalist for the 10th Annual 2014 Global Excellence Awards in the Best Overall Security Company of the Year category. These prestigious global awards recognize security and IT vendors with advanced, ground-breaking products and solutions that are helping set the bar higher for others in all areas of security and technologies.

Over the past year, Black Lotus has deployed a nationwide backbone to provide carrier grade DDoS mitigation to service providers and enterprises which now protects 675,840 end users across 158 autonomous networks. These upgrades have enabled us to defend our customers against the world's largest and most complex DDoS attacks, and to allow other service providers to provide the same level of service to their end users. In our most recent DDoS Threat Report we detailed the mitigation of 79,538 attacks, the largest peaking at 137 Gbps.

We are proud to be recognized as an industry player whose DDoS mitigation services have been named finalist by Info Security Products Guide. Behind this distinguished success is our relentless drive to remain customer focused. We believe this recognition from Info Security Products Guide further validates our commitment to our customers and their security needs.


Black Lotus named Finalist in Info Security Products Guide’s Global Excellence Awards

By Unknown → Monday, February 3, 2014
Inc. magazine today ranked Black Lotus NO. 1315 on its seventh annual Inc. 500|5000, an exclusive ranking of the nation's fastest-growing private companies. The list represents the most comprehensive look at the most important segment of the economy—America’s independent entrepreneurs.  Black Lotus joins LivingSocial, Edible Arrangements, CDW and Lifelock, among other prominent brands featured on this year’s list.

“We're excited to be recognized among some of the most innovative companies in America. Our continued growth has allowed us to pursue many exciting projects to include an infrastructure expansion at our Los Angeles facilities resulting in the single largest DDoS attack scrubbing center in the world," said Jeffrey Lyon, president of Black Lotus, "The presence of a DDoS mitigation company on the Inc 5000 is evidence of the growing demand for protection services."

In a stagnant economic environment, median growth rate of 2013 Inc. 500|5000 companies is an impressive 142 percent. The companies on this year’s list report having created over 520,000 jobs in the past three years, and aggregate revenue among the honorees reached $241 billion.


Black Lotus ranked among the fastest growing companies in America

By Unknown → Thursday, August 22, 2013
Los Angeles, December 3, 2012:  Black Lotus, a leader in Layer 7 DDoS mitigation technology, has been named a finalist in the Excellence category of the 2013 SC Awards for outstanding leadership and achievement in information security. Black Lotus' patent-pending Human Behavior Analysis (HBA) is recognized in the Best Emerging Technology category, which acknowledges companies with superior security products that help customers tackle today’s most pressing information technology (IT) challenges. The winner will be announced at the 2013 SC Awards U.S. ceremony to be held on Feb. 26, 2013 in San Francisco.

“Cutting-edge solutions are needed to fight the growing complexities of cyber attacks, and as a finalist in the SC Awards, Black Lotus has demonstrated the ability to execute innovative and comprehensive IT security measures,” said Illena Armstrong, vice president and editorial director of SC Magazine. “SC Magazine, our distinguished panel of expert judges and the entire industry will take a moment to recognize these efforts with this year’s awards gala.”

Hundreds of IT security companies nominated their solutions for consideration in the SC Awards and entries are evaluated by a jury hand-picked by SC Magazine’s editorial team for their breadth of knowledge and experience in the information security industry. The SC Award judges are luminaries from all walks of life – from end-user companies to the analyst and consulting communities to academia. Many are practicing and former chief security officers from the private and public sectors, who also may have been honored themselves at SC Awards galas in previous years. Not only are judges advised to review the materials provided by entrants, they are also asked to review any applicable research or analyst reports, as well as product reviews appearing in SC Magazine.

The SC Awards, now in its 16th year, are the premier global recognition for information technology (IT) security professionals and products that fend off the myriad security threats in today’s corporate world. The annual awards showcase the best solutions, services and professionals while recognizing achievement and technical excellence. SC Magazine distinguishes the achievements of the security professionals in the field, the innovations happening in the vendor and service provider communities and the fervent work of government, commercial and nonprofits.

"We're extremely excited, and frankly overwhelmed by the level of positive reception that our patent-pending technology is attracting. Our selection is testament that new and innovative DDoS mitigation technologies are needed for security professionals to stay ahead of today's complex threats to service availability," said Jeffrey Lyon, president at Black Lotus.

“This year’s SC Awards are possibly the stiffest competition we’ve ever had,” said Illena Armstrong, vice president and editorial director of SC Magazine. “As information security continues to grow in importance this has only added more weight to our program. Recognition for the tireless efforts of the men and women providing information security to the organizations around the world is paramount to SC Magazine and we look forward to celebrating them at the SC Awards gala.”

Winners of this year’s SC Awards U.S. will be announced at a gala dinner and award ceremony to be held in San Francisco on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013. The event is a night filled with excitement, along with an invaluable opportunity to network with the top corporate IT professionals in attendance. To attend the awards, please register at https://www.eiseverywhere.com/ereg/newreg.php?eventid=51723&categoryid=389844.



About SC Magazine

SC Magazine provides IT security professionals with in-depth and unbiased information through timely news, comprehensive analysis, cutting-edge features, contributions from thought leaders and the best, most extensive collection of product reviews in the business. By offering a consolidated view of IT security through independent product tests and well-researched editorial content that provides the contextual backdrop for how these IT security tools will address larger demands put on businesses today, SC Magazine enables IT security pros to make the right security decisions for their companies. In addition to the monthly print edition, the brand’s portfolio includes a vibrant website (scmagazine.com); SC Congress New York, Toronto and Chicago; SC Awards; SC MarketScope; and SC Magazine Newswire.

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Nominations and event information:

Maggie Keller, event coordinator

natasha.mulla@haymarketmedia.com

646.638.6041

Public Relations for SC Magazine

Katherine Verducci, MIX Public Relations

katherinev@mix-pr.com


About Black Lotus Communications

Black Lotus Communications is a Los Angeles-based security innovator that pioneered the first commercially viable DDoS mitigation solutions in 1999, weeks after the first known DDoS attacks. These advanced solutions enhance the security posture of small and medium businesses and enterprise clients while reducing capital expenditures, managing risk, ensuring compliance, and improving earnings and retention. Breakthrough developments at Black Lotus include the world’s first DDoS protected hosting network, the first IPv6 DDoS mitigation environment, and the first highly effective Layer 7 attack mitigation strategy. For more information, visit http://www.blacklotus.net or follow Black Lotus on Twitter at https://twitter.com/ddosprotection.

Contacts:

Media Relations
media@blacklotus.net


Black Lotus Named as SC Magazine’s 2013 Excellence Award Finalist

By Unknown → Monday, December 3, 2012
Government Security News names Black Lotus as a Finalist in the Best Network Security category in GSN's 4th Annual Homeland Security Awards competition

Los Angeles, November 11, 2012 - Government Security News has announced the finalists – including Black Lotus -- in 34 different categories in its 4th Annual Homeland Security Awards competition, along with the names of the preemptive winners in another eight categories.

In the Best Network Security category, GSN identified Black Lotus as a finalist for its patent-pending Human Behavior Analysis (HBA) system which can detect whether a website visitor is a real human and accurately block malicious connections in order to mitigate Layer 7 DDoS attacks, keeping websites online. Black Lotus has already deployed this technology to government agencies such as the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office which used Black Lotus to defend against attacks during the 2012 GOP National Convention.

"It is such a great honor to be recognized as innovators in network security alongside esteemed finalists Fortinet and Palo Alto Networks. Our selection is evident of the need for new and innovative solutions in mitigating threats to availability in the government sector," said Jeffrey Lyon, president of Black Lotus.

All winners will be announced -- and celebrated -- at a gala dinner GSN is hosting at the Washington, DC Convention Center on the evening of Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012. The finalists and winners were selected by a panel of objective judges, according to Jacob Goodwin, Editor-in-Chief of Government Security News.

"We received an extraordinary number of entries," Goodwin said. "We have carefully reviewed each entry and are now very pleased to announce an exceptionally strong field of finalists."


About Black Lotus Communications

Black Lotus Communications is a Los Angeles-based security innovator that pioneered the first commercially viable DDoS mitigation solutions in 1999, weeks after the first known DDoS attacks. These advanced solutions enhance the security posture of small and medium businesses and enterprise clients while reducing capital expenditures, managing risk, ensuring compliance, and improving earnings and retention. Breakthrough developments at Black Lotus include the world’s first DDoS protected hosting network, the first IPv6 DDoS mitigation environment, and the first highly effective Layer 7 attack mitigation strategy. For more information, visit www.blacklotus.net or follow Black Lotus on Twitter at https://twitter.com/ddosprotection.

Black Lotus named a finalist in the GSN 2012 Homeland Security Awards

By Unknown → Sunday, November 11, 2012
Ping! Zine Readers Choose Black Lotus; VP Shawn Marck and patent-pending Human Behavior Analysis (HBA) recognized for innovation in DDoS protection technology 

Los Angeles, Calif., September 24, 2012 – Black Lotus, a leader in availability security and provider of distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection, was recognized for excellence and innovation in DDoS mitigation technology by the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium (ISC)²® (“ISC-squared”) in its inaugural Americas Information Security Leadership (Americas ISLA) Awards. The company also received the Readers’ Choice Award for DDoS Protection from Ping! Zine Magazine, a leading web hosting industry magazine.

“Receiving these two awards within the span of a week is a validation of our security research and development work at Black Lotus,” said Shawn Marck, vice president of Black Lotus. “Virtually anyone with a website is vulnerable to DDoS attacks. Black Lotus continues to pursue new methods to address this problem. Our intuitive technology and proactive protection strategies keep thousands of customers’ websites available, by defending against application-level Layer 7 attacks.”

Black Lotus’ vice president, Shawn Marck won the award for “Up-and-Coming Information Security Professional,” recognized for his research and development of Black Lotus’s patent-pending Layer 7 attack mitigation strategy, Human Behavior Analysis (HBA). The 2012 Americas ISLA judges, all senior-level information security professionals from (ISC)2’s North and Latin American Advisory Boards, carefully reviewed the nominations and selected individuals with Americas ISLAs in four distinct categories, including Information Security Practitioner, Managerial Professional for an Information Security Project and Senior Information Security Professional.

“For the second year in a row, we have received a large number of nominations representing the accomplishments of private and public sector industry leaders who are making a real difference in the growth and quality of the information security workforce,” said W. Hord Tipton, CISSP-ISSEP, CAP, CISA, executive director of (ISC)2. “The industry continues to face a crisis, due to a major shortage of qualified information security professionals, but through their efforts, the 2012 Americas ISLA winners are illustrating what can and is being done to attract more top personnel to the field and give them the knowledge and tools they need to combat the growing cyber security threat.”

Black Lotus won the Readers’ Choice Award in the “DDoS Protection” category for defending service providers and end users against insidious DDoS attacks. To identify these winners, Ping! Zine Magazine polled its viewership from the circulation of 50,000 subscribers, who recognized organizations in 15 different categories including Hosting Billing Service, Dedicated Server Hosting and Colocation.

Jared Townsend, website editor of Ping! Zine wrote in the Readers’ Choice issue, “While any web host surely promises its clientele the ability to get them up and running, we always return to the question, ‘Who’s the best to go with?’…This year, at Ping! Zine, we thought we’d do some exploring, attempting to identify the most proficient companies specializing in a number of categories.”

For a complete list of 2012 winners or more information about the Americas ISLA awards, please visit https://www.isc2.org/aisla/.

For a complete list of the winners of Ping! Zine’s Readers’ Choice Awards, please visit http://www.pingzine.com/issue-51-2012-ping-zine-readers-choice-awards/


About Black Lotus Communications

Black Lotus Communications is a Los Angeles-based security innovator that pioneered the first commercially viable DDoS mitigation solutions in 1999, weeks after the first known DDoS attacks. These advanced solutions enhance the security posture of SMB and enterprise clients while reducing capital expenditures, managing risk, ensuring compliance, and improving earnings and retention. Breakthrough developments at Black Lotus include the world's first DDoS protected hosting network, the first IPv6 DDoS mitigation environment, and the first highly effective Layer 7 attack mitigation strategy. For more information, visit www.blacklotus.net or follow Black Lotus on Twitter at https://twitter.com/ddosprotection.

About (ISC)2

© 2012, (ISC)² Inc. (ISC)², CISSP, ISSAP, ISSMP, ISSEP, and CSSLP, CAP, SSCP and CBK are registered marks of (ISC)², Inc.


Black Lotus Named a Readers’ Choice and ISLA Award Winner

By Unknown → Monday, September 24, 2012
Shawn Marck recognized for innovation in DDoS protection technology

Los Angeles, August 6, 2012 – Black Lotus, a leader in availability security and provider of distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection, today announced that its Vice President, Shawn Marck, was named a finalist by the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium (ISC)²® (“ISC-squared”) in its inaugural Americas Information Security Leadership (Americas ISLA) Awards. Americas ISLA Awards judges recognized Marck for his research and development of Black Lotus’s patent-pending Layer 7 attack mitigation strategy. (ISC)² is the world’s largest information security professional body and administrators of the CISSP®.

“Earning this recognition in the first year of the Americas ISLA Awards validates our security research and development work at Black Lotus,” said Shawn Marck, Vice President of Black Lotus. “DDoS attacks continue to plague virtually anyone with a website. Black Lotus is constantly looking for new methods to address this problem. Our intuitive technology and proactive protection strategies defend users against application-level Layer 7 attacks.”

With the success of its ISLA program in the U.S. and Asia-Pacific regions, (ISC)² expanded last year to laud the accomplishments of private and public sector industry leaders who are driving change in the information security workforce throughout the Americas. The program recognizes professionals who are leading initiatives that result in a stronger, more qualified information security workforce in North, Central and South America in the categories of:

  • Senior Information Security Professional

  • Managerial Professional for an Information Security Project

  • Information Security Practitioner

  • Up-and-Coming Information Security Professional

  • Special Recognition – “Community Service Star”

“Expanding the ISLA program to the Americas last year was a logical step for us given the wealth of information security innovation, leadership and talent in this region,” said W. Hord Tipton, CISSP-ISSEP, CAP, CISA, and executive director of (ISC)². “We were pleased with the caliber of finalists, and we congratulate them on their pioneering achievements. With the acute shortage of qualified information security personnel, the ISLA program provides a platform for these information security leaders to inspire the industry and their peers to shape the future of this critical profession.”

(ISC)² will announce the ISLA winners at a gala dinner on September 12, 2012 at The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.

For a complete list of 2012 finalists or more information about the Americas ISLA awards, please visit https://www.isc2.org/aisla/.


About (ISC)2

© 2012, (ISC)² Inc. (ISC)², CISSP, ISSAP, ISSMP, ISSEP, and CSSLP, CAP, SSCP and CBK are registered marks of (ISC)², Inc.


Black Lotus VP Named a Finalist for (ISC)²® 2012 Americas ISLA

By Unknown → Sunday, August 5, 2012