Today we announce that we have been named a winner for the Top 10 cybersecurity startups for 2021 at the Black Unicorn Awards which are hosted by Cyber Defense Magazine and take place each year during the Black Hat USA conference. Judges Robert R. Ackerman Jr. of www.allegiscyber.com, David DeWalt of www.nightdragon.com, Dr. Peter Stephenson […]

We are happy to share that Arturo Busleiman joins our ambassador roster. Arturo is a 39-year-old programmer and security consultant from Argentina who has dedicated his life to promoting and developing open source software. His first foray into Linux began in 1995 when he downloaded mini-Linux from a BBS. Since then, he has contributed not only […]

The release of CrowdSec v1.1.x introduces new package repositories for the CrowdSec agent and the bouncers, making the setup process even easier. In addition to that, multiple CrowdSec agents can be connected to the console to get a unified view of the attackers. In this tutorial, we are going to cover the following: CrowdSec setup […]

A short while ago, we sat down with Yannick Siegler, one of CrowdSec’s early spotters and most involved community member. Hi Yannick. Can you tell us a little bit more about yourself and your company? I have been an auto-entrepreneur for several years. I  run my own company, Siegler Informatique, offering managed services and VPS. […]

The information security industry is obviously part of the IT sector, but security companies are different from traditional software companies in many ways. If your company builds cloud services or CRM systems or search engines, you don’t have an enemy. The closest thing to an enemy would be competing companies. However, infosec companies do have […]

Today, along with the release of CrowdSec v1.1.x, we are happy to announce that we moved to Package Cloud, a cloud-hosted package distribution. What does that mean? We are now distributing more packages! Alongside existing ones for Debian and Ubuntu (Bionic, Bullseye, Buster, Focal, Stretch, Focal for x86-64 & arm), we now provide packages for […]

Distributed Denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks have been targeting all types of businesses over the past few years. They have been used by hackers for quite some time and are some of the most common attacks but remain extremely efficient and harmful.  The concept is simple: hackers hammer a given target from many different locations to take […]

We are a security company. Our goal is to help our community members secure their assets. But one of our core values is to drink our own champagne and walk the talk. So, a few months ago, we asked Synacktiv to perform a code review on the CrowdSec agent. The tests were performed using a […]

Did you know that every day across the Internet, each IP address is scanned hundreds of times? Or that more than 2,000 attacks are perpetrated, stealing 1.4 million personal records? That’s right, every single day! Companies, institutions, individuals are more aware of the issue than they used to be and are ready to deal with […]

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 […]