We are thrilled to announce that Hamza Kondah is joining our ambassador roster. Hamza is an expert in computer security and MVP in enterprise security. He first started in the IT security environment on the white hat side before specializing in consulting. He is also a cloud solution integrator. Today, he mostly offers his services […]

We are happy to announce that we are supporting the Open Source Initiative as a sponsor. The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a non-profit corporation with global scope, formed to educate about and advocate for the benefits of open source. OSI participates in conferences and events, to meet with open source developers and users, and […]

We are proud to welcome Gilles Babinet as a CrowdSec board member. French serial entrepreneur (founded 9 companies in the last 30 years), Gilles represents France in the Digital Champions group created by the European Union. He is also co-President of the French National Digital Council, an independent commission advising the French Government on digital matters. Gilles brings […]

The tale of two towers There are two schools in Open source. The first one considers that pure open source should be free with no exception and that developers shouldn’t live from it but rather willingly spend their time on their art. Even though this might sound like a monk-oriented career, a lot was done […]

Paris, May 5th, 2021 — CrowdSec, the first community firewall, which has already helped  identify hundreds of thousands of malicious IP addresses worldwide, today announced a $5 million seed round from Breega. Start-up CrowdSec aims to rethink cybersecurity by creating a collaborative endpoint detection and response (EDR), empowering a novel strategy to combat hacking on a […]

Since v1.0.x was released,  CrowdSec can now secure has implemented a Local API that can be requested by the CrowdSec agent or command line client, but also by remote CrowdSec machines. Let’s deep dive and explore how it works and how to make the most of it. This post is the English version of an […]

In 2020, our ways of living and working turned completely upside down in a matter of days. We all brought our companies home and staying connected to our colleagues, friends and family became a critical necessity. This opened the door for hackers to cause disruption and we saw a huge increase of DDoS attacks all […]