16:55 ET NEW SECURITY PLATFORM FROM LIMELIGHT ENSURES WEBSITES AND APPS STAY OPEN FOR BUSINESS Limelight (Nasdaq: LLNW), a leading provider of content delivery and AppOps at the edge, today announced the release of its Layer0 Security Platform, ...

16:55 ET NEW SECURITY PLATFORM FROM LIMELIGHT ENSURES WEBSITES AND APPS STAY OPEN FOR BUSINESS Limelight (Nasdaq: LLNW), a leading provider of content delivery and AppOps at the edge, today announced the release of its Layer0 Security Platform, ...

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Feb. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Limelight (Nasdaq: LLNW), a leading provider of content delivery and AppOps at the edge, today announced the release of its Layer0 Security Platform, significantly enhancing its capabilities in the $4.4B web CDN and security market it entered in November. A fully PCI-compliant solution, Layer0 Security protects customers against OWASP Top 10 security risks, SQL injection, cross-site scripting, PHP injection, bot attacks, DDoS attacks, and other threats.


Limelight has been delivering secure content for more than two decades and, as the threat landscape becomes increasingly sophisticated, companies need seamless, automated solutions to simplify development, enhance experience and lessen time to market. With Layer0 Security, developers get comprehensive security at scale without the need to manually integrate it into their edge logic. The new security platform runs natively on Limelight's backbone and is fully integrated within the Layer0 platform, which allows teams to ship up to twice as fast and deliver sub-second websites. 


"Businesses today face growing security threats including targeted attacks to bring down websites, impact performance and steal information," said John Swedlund, Product Manager for AppOps and Security at Limelight. "We're taking the necessary steps to ensure our clients have the ability to quickly deploy security products and keep applications safe."  


Layer0 Security services and features include:


  • Web Application Firewall: The Layer0 WAF managed rule sets protect applications and APIs against security exploits by monitoring, filtering, and blocking malicious traffic. Developers can enable these as broad rule groups or on a rule-by-rule basis to stop attackers in their tracks.

  • Bot Management: A set of Bot Management rules allow teams to quickly deploy, detect, and manage a wide variety of bots that query apps ..

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