Limelight announced the release of its Layer0 Security Platform, significantly enhancing its capabilities in the $4.4 Billion 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. Layer0 Security services and features include: 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. A set of Bot Management rules allow teams to quickly deploy, detect, and manage a wide variety of bots that query apps and consume valuable resources. Developers can use these bot rules to allow good bots through and block bad bots if the traffic is unwanted.

Limelight's high-bandwidth, globally distributed network is built to inspect and repel a wide variety of network layer DDoS attacks. To keep resources healthy and preserve the integrity of applications, it provides advanced cloud-based protection to ensure an always-secure online experience. The Layer0 Security platform runs natively on the highly-performant Limelight backbone and Layer0 customers have a single pane of glass to control all of their services, including the new security features.