Where do we come from?
Thibault & Philippe, 2 of CrowdSec founders, used to work in high security hosting, which was kind of a new field back in the 2010’s. They designed a stack of protection which would also block IPs that made violations.
One day, one of their clients, a famous sports-oriented e-commerce shop was under attack. It was not a real problem since it was protected by a robust stack, but the hacker used more than 3,000 IP addresses to try to aggress the website. At this exact moment came this idea that would be the genesis of CrowdSec.
“What if we share those IPs with our peers and colleagues in the industry? That would cripple this hacker’s operations even further right?”
This was the starting point of a long journey, involving a lot of great minds into designing a lightweight product, Waze-like, that would not only block attacks but also share IPs with all its user community.
“Safer together” was born. The team started to gather around this idea that instead of being isolated sitting ducks, waiting to be picked one by one by the enemy, we could rather organize a sort of Internet neighborhood watch.