By pooling the information of all its users, the platform can detect and block attacks.
Only unity is strength. This could be the motto of CrowdSec, a French cybersecurity company that is betting on a different approach to respond to the multiplication of computer attacks. If instead of trying to fight alone in their corner against an army of hackers, organizations played the network effect to weaken them? To protect exposed networks on the internet, CrowdSec has developed a “collaborative” intrusion prevention system. The platform relies on information coming from its user base to automatically report attacks and enrich a database of malicious addresses that members of the community can block.
To carry out their attacks, criminals absolutely need to use what is called an IP (internet protocol) address, a sequence of numbers that identifies a machine on the Internet. From the “behavior” of these addresses, compared to…
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