REDWOOD SHORES, CA--(Marketwired - Apr 10, 2013) - Incapsula , a cloud-based website security and performance service, announced today that its security and acceleration solution will be used to protect the 4 th annual European Hack In The Box (HITB) security conference website and other online properties, securing them against DDoS, coordinated external attacks, as well as excessive traffic.
"After having our conference website 'DDoS itself' from the sheer volume of traffic last year, surrounding the fervor of headline talks including the Absinthe iOS jailbreak, we decided Incapsula's solution was just what we need," said Dhillon Andrew Kannabhiran, founder and chief executive officer for Hack In The Box. "Now with the Evad3rs and over 400 hackers expected to gather at #HITB2013AMS next week, we're not taking any chances. Since signing up we've already seen a reduction in network and server loads."
"We are very excited for the opportunity to support HITB," said Gur Shatz, CEO of Incapsula. "As part of the security community, we can appreciate the importance of such meetings of the minds, that bring together emerging hackers, established security experts and non-security vendors, and allow them to efficiently exchange information on common terms. Security evolution is nourished by collaboration, free exchange of ideas and this is where such innovation blooms."
Hack In The Box is the organizer of a deep knowledge network security conference known as HITBSecConf, which is held annually in countries including Malaysia and the Netherlands. The Hack In The Box Security Conference brings together the top minds of the hacker community from across the globe to learn from their peers and industry experts.
Conference activities include three days of security oriented tech training, covering new innovations and refinements on old techniques, such as recent advances in web and mobile hacking. Attendees can also participate in a Capture the Flag security competition, to uncover browser interface vulnerabilities and visit the CommSec Village, which aims to highlight new commercial and open source security product.
Hack In The Box is also a home to the information security portal HITBSecNews and HITBSecForum community, both of which are now also safeguarded by Incapsula.
About Incapsula
Incapsula is a cloud-based, service that makes websites safer, faster and more reliable. Incapsula provides websites of all sizes with capabilities that so far, have only been consumable by the very large Internet websites.
Through its cloud-based delivery model, Incapsula offers websites, large or small, enterprise-grade security and performance optimization, securing websites from sophisticated multi-Gigabit DDoS attacks, illegal access attempts, spammers, scrapers and other malicious bots. The Incapsula service addresses the entire OWASP's Top 10 vulnerabilities list, an application security standard, highly recommended by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.
Incapsula was founded in 2009 by a group of industry veterans with strong backgrounds in web application security, online safety and identity theft. Incapsula was spun out and is financially backed by Imperva, a leading provider of data security solutions.
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