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

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

October 28, 2014 11:04 AM Eastern Daylight Time

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--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

Tags: Awards → Customers → DDoS mitigation → DDoS protection → News → Protection for Networks

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

By Unknown → Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Black Lotus Partners with CloudSigma to Provide Enhanced DDoS Protection in Cloud Environments

International Customers Can Now Leverage the Customizable, Enterprise-Scale Cybersecurity Solution for a More Seamless, Protected Cloud Experience

November 04, 2014 09:00 AM Eastern Standard Time

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Black Lotus, a leader in availability security and provider of distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection, today announced a partnership with CloudSigma, a public cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) provider with advanced hybrid hosting solutions. As DDoS attacks become increasingly common across industries, it is crucial for cloud providers to consider the cybersecurity of their customers. By partnering with Black Lotus, CloudSigma’s customers are afforded enhanced protection, ensuring they aren’t at risk for wasted time or resources in the event of a targeted DDoS attack.

“Recent research shows that nearly 40 percent of enterprises are unprepared for DDoS attacks, which can be very hard to recover from”

For a global cloud provider like CloudSigma that services major enterprises across markets, a basic, automated DDoS mitigation offering is insufficient. As DDoS methods grow more complex, countermeasures require a larger portion of a business’ IT team to manage the attack, pulling employees away from their primary responsibilities and incurring significant losses in revenue as a result. Black Lotus provides hands-on, customizable protection that takes into account the environments at stake to give CloudSigma customers the guaranteed around-the-clock uptime that they rely on for optimum productivity and maximum profits.

“Recent research shows that nearly 40 percent of enterprises are unprepared for DDoS attacks, which can be very hard to recover from,” said Robert Jenkins, chief executive officer at CloudSigma. “Our partnership with Black Lotus enhances our existing core infrastructure DDoS protection with a more user-focused, customizable service. It will also complement our firewall policies for greater security in general, giving our customers a more seamless, protected experience in our cloud.”

Black Lotus’ Chief Security Officer and Co-Founder Shawn Marck said, “Our company’s mission is to ensure our customers – whether websites, protected servers or data centers – can go about their business without fear of censorship or disruption due to a DDoS attack. By partnering with CloudSigma, we’re able to expand into new regions and market segments and provide the proactive security-as-a-service solution that enterprises need to easily sidestep the prolonged detrimental impact an attack can have.”

Black Lotus’ DDoS protection solution is available immediately from all of CloudSigma’s cloud locations, including San Jose, Washington D.C., Miami and Honolulu in the U.S., and its dual locations in Zurich, Switzerland in Europe.

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.

About CloudSigma

CloudSigma is a pure-cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider that offers highly-available, flexible, enterprise-class cloud servers and cloud hosting solutions, both in Europe and the U.S. CloudSigma is one of the most customizable cloud providers on the market, giving customers full control over their cloud and eliminating restrictions on how users deploy their computing resources. With CloudSigma, customers can provision processing, storage, networks and other fundamental computing resources as they please, as well as easily deploy any operating system or application with full root/administrative access. The result is a high-performing cloud at an efficient price.

With infrastructure in Equinix data centres in Zurich, Switzerland, as well as Washington DC, San Jose & Miami, US, and a DRFortress data center in Honolulu, CloudSigma selects the highest-quality facilities to support its innovative infrastructure. CloudSigma is increasingly being recognized for its advancement of the cloud IaaS industry and more information may be found at www.CloudSigma.com or by visiting the company on Twitter@CloudSigma, Facebook and Google+.

Contacts

Black Lotus Press Contact:
Metis Communications
Justine Boucher, +1 617-236-0500
blacklotus@metiscomm.com
or
CloudSigma Press Contact:
March Communications
Meredith L. Eaton, +1 617-960-9877
cloudsigma@marchpr.com

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Black Lotus Partners with CloudSigma to Provide Enhanced DDoS Protection in Cloud Environments

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Black Lotus Delivers DDoS Protection for Data Centers and Service Providers

Company provides Protection for Networks (PFN) Technology for increased customer satisfaction; launches free DDoS protection service

SAN FRANCISCO – January 14, 2013 – Black Lotus, a leader in availability security and provider of distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection, today announced that its Protection for Networks (PFN) solution is providing data center companies and service providers worldwide with around-the-clock availability, which ensures customers avoid revenue losses from site DDoS outages. Customers are discovering that by implementing Black Lotus’ DDoS mitigation, they can eliminate attack-related interruptions by 99 percent without having to invest in additional infrastructure to absorb attacks. Additionally, Black Lotus is offering a free PFN service for data centers and service providers that need up to one gigabits per second (Gbps) of DDoS protection or want to offer it as an entry-level service to end users.

For worldwide service providers that offer Web hosting, cloud hosting, collocation, Internet services, and virtualized and dedicated servers, any interruption to client services can result in customers migrating to competitors. Organizations such as Servers Australia, Steadfast, Zone Networks, Rack Nation and Continuum trust Black Lotus’ PFN technology to meet constant availability requirements. The PFN offering allows whole-infrastructure DDoS protection for data center companies and service providers and can also be offered as a value-added service to hosting customers. The end result is a new revenue stream that can defend its own infrastructure and fund the effort through reseller sales to end users.

DDoS attacks lasting hours or even minutes can lead to loss of revenue and customers. Black Lotus’ free PFN service enables data center companies and service providers to get started with border gateway protocol (BGP)-based DDoS protection, which includes an introductory level of protection and clean traffic. Service providers can try the entry-level DDoS protection and then quickly ramp up to full-scale mitigation in the future. The full PFN package lets any BGP network establish a session with the Black Lotus scrubbing center for immediate filtering during a DDoS attack. Once the session is active, only confirmed DDoS attacks are sent to the scrubbing center, where IPs under attack are inspected and filtered, and only clean traffic is routed back to the target’s network.

“Dedicated and managed hosting companies are finally recognizing it’s a matter of ‘when,’ rather than ‘if’ they will suffer an attack against their online presence. These companies are often the backbone of countless sites and businesses that need 24/7 uptime to serve their customers, which also makes them prime attack targets,” said Shawn Marck, CEO of Black Lotus. “Our services deliver rapid deployment of DDoS mitigation, so service providers not only experience cost savings and operational improvements, but they can also focus on their primary mission of providing continuous Web service instead of diverting internal resources to fight fires and worry about customer uptime.”

Service providers or data center companies that are interested in DDoS protection services can send an email to sales@blacklotus.net or call 866-477-5554 to learn more.

What Black Lotus data center and service provider customers are saying:

“We’ve grown our servers to host huge booking systems, airlines, government systems and many other sensitive services that require the highest level of reliability and uptime, including some of the world’s largest game server providers, which are prone to attacks 24 hours a day, seven days a week. These organizations cannot afford network connectivity issues or downtime, so DDoS protection is a must for us,” said Jared Hirst, managing director of Servers Australia, a provider of Web hosting, cloud hosting, collocation, virtualized and dedicated servers and other services. “Black Lotus can clean large amounts of DDoS attack traffic that can range in the hundreds of gigabits per second. Its network has the cleaning capacity we need, and we have successfully cleaned all sustained DDoS attacks to date.”

“DDoS attack protection is an important component to any comprehensive network security platform,” said Karl Zimmerman, president of Steadfast, a Chicago-based managed cloud and IT infrastructure company with three data centers and about 40 employees. “We have thousands of customers, all with their own needs and requirements, and having a complete security solution is critical to properly serving them. Black Lotus gives us the ability to protect against DDoS attacks while also providing control and flexibility. Because we can now keep customers up and running during DDoS attacks, we've been able to keep accounts that we might have otherwise lost.”

“As an offshore data center for high-profile and high-risk clients, we are a constant target for DDoS attacks,” said Felipe Cruz Ferrero, chief technical officer for Rack Nation, a data center that provides IT solutions. “We learned the necessity of DDoS protection the hard way, after we suffered repeated attacks targeted at specific clients. Rather than continuing to rely on a third party, we implemented Black Lotus’ PFN so we could control DDoS protection for our data center and end users. Now we can confidently deliver 99.98 percent uptime to our customers, which would be near-impossible to achieve without Black Lotus’ DDoS protection.”

About Black Lotus CommunicationsBlack Lotus Communications is a security innovator that pioneered 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.

Tags: Customers → DDoS mitigation → DDoS protection → News → Protection for Networks

Black Lotus Delivers DDoS Protection for Data Centers and Service Providers

By Unknown → Wednesday, January 15, 2014

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

Government Security News names Black Lotus as a Finalist in the Best Network Security category in GSN's 4^th 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 4^th 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.

Tags: Application Layer DDoS → Awards → Customers → DDoS mitigation → DDoS protection

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

By Unknown → Sunday, November 11, 2012

VentraIP Group Partners With Black Lotus to Activate New Enterprise-Grade DDoS Protection

Provides availability security to expanding global network

Los Angeles, October 1, 2012 – Black Lotus, a leader in availability security and provider of distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection, today announced its partnership with VentraIP Group, one of Australia's fastest growing providers of domain names and Web hosting services. Under the terms of the partnership, Black Lotus provides enterprise-grade DDoS protection to VentraIP’s expanding global network.

VentraIP uses the Black Lotus high-performance carrier network and attack monitoring platform to mitigate DDoS attacks against clients hosted on their network. Earlier this year, VentraIP’s clients experienced large-scale DDoS attacks, resulting in network degradation and site downtime. Black Lotus’ DDoS mitigation services help decrease turnover and preserve site uptime, preventing lost revenue and drop-off of legitimate traffic.

"As an Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and an .au Domain Administration (auDA) accredited registrar, our partnership with Black Lotus for DDoS protection is an insurance policy for our clients that gives us peace of mind,” said Angelo Giuffrida, chief operating officer of VentraIP. “If an attack of this nature is being made against a client on our network, we now have a plan to mitigate it and allow our network to continue operating for the rest of our customers."

“We’re seeing increasing incidents of DDoS attacks against company websites, both small and large,” said Jeffrey Lyon, president of Black Lotus. “VentraIP recognizes the potential risk to its customers, and our partnership allows the company to take the necessary steps to safeguard client sites and in many cases, their companies’ livelihoods.”

Black Lotus offers protection against DDoS attacks that typically penetrate slowly enough to bypass other available mitigation solutions. The widely used method of DDoS attack infiltrates the network at the application layer (Layer 7) and mimics acceptable Web traffic behavior, exhausting the resources of servers and resulting in service outages. Black Lotus monitors for this kind of traffic behavior and discerns between legitimate and malicious traffic with an intelligent DDoS mitigation platform, ensuring uptime continuity.

Following Black Lotus’ announcement of its patent-pending Human Behavior Analysis (HBA) technology last month, the company also won two awards recognizing its unique ability to discern between malicious botnet traffic and genuine human visitors to a website.



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.

About VentraIP Group

VentraIP Economy, a brand of VentraIP Group, is one of Australia's leading providers of cheap domain names, low-cost cPanel Web hosting, Xen VPS and Trustwave SSL certificates. The VentraIP Group has grown from an idea to having more than 40,000 satisfied customers across its three brands: VentraIP Economy, VentraIP Business and VentraIP Wholesale. For more information, visit http://www.ventraip.com.au/.

Tags: Customers → DDoS mitigation → DDoS protection → News

VentraIP Group Partners With Black Lotus to Activate New Enterprise-Grade DDoS Protection

By Unknown → Monday, October 1, 2012

Black Lotus Launches Patent-Pending Human Behavior Analysis for DDoS Protection

DDoS protection technology mitigates, stops malicious botnet Layer 7 attacks 

Los Angeles, September 10, 2012 – Black Lotus, a leader in availability security and a provider of distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection, today unveiled its patent-pending Human Behavior Analysis (HBA) technology to protect Web hosts and e-commerce companies against DDoS attacks. Black Lotus first began developing HBA in 2009 when it observed complex, insidious application layer (Layer 7) attacks against websites. The technology allows Black Lotus customers to send all Web traffic through the DDoS-protected HBA engine and receive only known human users in return, which is critical to ensure client site uptime.

“HBA is the only availability security technology that can effectively judge whether a site visitor is human without relying on any packet or request header data,” said Jeffrey Lyon, Black Lotus president and CEO. “HBA leverages numerous patent-pending algorithms that observe an incoming site visitor and, when matched, tell the engine whether the visitor is a human or a robot. In cases where the algorithm is not a match, the visitor is further observed and flagged if it performs suspicious activity.”

John Larsen, systems engineer of javapipe.com said, "Quality of service to our clients has always been our highest priority. We utilize Black Lotus for their DDoS mitigation tools to keep our clients’ servers safe and secure. They provide the same level of quality, assurance and peace of mind that our clients have always expected of us."

Layer 7 attacks against websites penetrate slowly enough to bypass commercially available DDoS mitigation packet filters, mimicking acceptable Web traffic behavior to exhaust the resources of the server, resulting in service outages. Black Lotus saw the industry need for an intelligent DDoS mitigation platform that could understand real versus malicious Web traffic without relying on standard conventions. Available as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering, HBA renders intelligent filtering decisions and ensures thousands of websites enjoy uptime continuity.


Additional Black Lotus information:

• Black Lotus blog: http://www.blacklotus.net/blog


• Black Lotus on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ddosprotection


• Black Lotus on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ddosprotection

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.


Media Contact:
Justine Boucher
Metis Communications
617-236-0500
justine.boucher@metiscomm.com

Tags: Application Layer DDoS → Customers → DDoS mitigation → DDoS protection → Human Behavior Analysis → News

Black Lotus Launches Patent-Pending Human Behavior Analysis for DDoS Protection

By Unknown → Monday, September 10, 2012

Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office Selects Black Lotus for DDoS Protection

DDoS protection technology mitigates, stops malicious Layer 7 botnet attacks for Florida law enforcement agency

Los Angeles and Tampa, Fla., August 27, 2012 – Black Lotus, a leader in availability security and a provider of distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection, today announced that the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO) has selected Black Lotus’ patent-pending technology to ensure the security of its information systems. The technology protects the entire HCSO network from threats against availability and inspects its Web traffic through the DDoS-protected Human Behavior Analysis (HBA) engine, serving only verified human users in return, a technique that is critical to ensuring complete service continuity.

The HCSO website is a central repository for residents of one of Florida’s largest counties, and it offers information and resources on topics such as emergency services, special investigation services and homeland security, as well as updates on local crime. The ability to provide citizens access to this information around the clock is a high priority for the HCSO IT team.

“DDoS attacks are no longer isolated occurrences. Virtually anyone with a website is at risk,” said Jeffrey Lyon, President of Black Lotus. “Given the potential for losses, any company or agency that depends on its website as its primary platform for revenue or communication must form a holistic DDoS protection plan.”

Black Lotus offers protection against DDoS attacks that typically penetrate slowly enough to bypass commercially available mitigation solutions. This widely used method of attack infiltrates the network at the application layer and mimics acceptable Web traffic behavior, exhausting the resources of servers and resulting in service outages. Black Lotus provides HCSO with an intelligent DDoS mitigation platform that monitors the site for this kind of traffic behavior and distinguishes between legitimate and malicious site traffic, ensuring uptime continuity.

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.

Media Contact

Justine Boucher
Metis Communications
617-236-0500
justine.boucher@metiscomm.com

Tags: Customers → DDoS mitigation → DDoS protection → Human Behavior Analysis → News

Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office Selects Black Lotus for DDoS Protection

By Unknown → Monday, August 27, 2012