How it started
History
Incapsula was founded in 2009 by Gur Shatz and Marc Gaffan. 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.
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. Later that year, the company announced a two factor authentication feature called Login-Protect, as an integrated feature of its products.
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. The attack was against BTC China, a bitcoin and yuan trading platform.
Incapsula also announced in 2013 that it would be implementing Layer 7 load balancing capabilities.
From Wikipedia’s article on Incapsula, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.2