A10 Networks

What the company sells

A10 Networks sells security solutions, infrastructure solutions, and centralized management and automation solutions for applications and networks. A10 Networks says its products are for enterprises, service providers, and government organizations.

On security, A10 Networks says AI is changing how applications connect and communicate, and that traffic patterns are becoming more unpredictable, introducing risks such as DDoS attacks, API abuse, inference manipulation, and shadow AI. A10 Networks says it delivers protection across network and application layers and APIs, defending against DDoS attacks, bots, infiltration, exfiltration, prompt injection, and more. A10 Networks says its security includes unified web application and API security, DNS firewall, DDoS protection, and AI guardrails.

The security product line includes TrojAI by A10 Networks, described as AI Guardrails and Red Teaming, and ThreatX by A10 Networks, described as a web application protection platform. A10 Defend DDoS Mitigator provides DDoS mitigation with intelligent automation, powered by advanced machine learning. A10 Defend DDoS Detector provides precise, highly scalable network-wide anomaly detection. A10 Defend Threat Control is a proactive DDoS attack intelligence SaaS platform. A10 Defend DDoS Orchestrator covers DDoS defense monitoring, orchestration and management. A10 Defend Next-Gen WAF is an integrated application delivery and web application firewall.

On the infrastructure side, A10 Thunder® ADC is a high-performance application delivery controller and advanced load balancer. Thunder ADC provides consistent application delivery services across hardware appliances, virtual machines, bare metal, containers, and public cloud environments. Thunder ADC uses advanced Layer 4-7 load balancing, customizable health checks, and global server load balancing (GSLB) to help keep applications available across data centers and cloud environments. Thunder ADC improves application performance with capabilities including SSL/TLS offload, TCP optimization, RAM caching, compression, and intelligent load balancing.

A10 Thunder® CGN is advanced carrier-grade NAT, IPv4 preservation and IPv6 migration. A10 Thunder® CFW is a consolidated network security platform with stateful firewall, IPsec VPN, CGN, ADC, SSLi and secure web gateway. SSL Insight (SSLi®) in Thunder CFW provides TLS/SSL decryption for real-time visibility into encrypted traffic.

A10 Control provides centralized management for A10's security and infrastructure solutions. A10 Networks says it enables intelligent analytics, traffic visibility, and streamlined operations across any environment. A10 Control consolidates existing A10 Harmony Controller and aGalaxy capabilities and more.

A10 Networks describes its Cloud Access Proxy (CAP) as a complete enterprise solution to help organizations optimize the performance and security of their SaaS applications and provide visibility into branch offices and the cloud. Tenant Access Control prevents data theft between sanctioned and unsanctioned SaaS tenant accounts. URL Filtering provides traffic categorization and protection from web threats.

A10 Networks says 7,700+ businesses use its products, from Fortune 500 enterprises to service providers and government agencies. Turk Telekom, Segpay, Travelex and Uber are named as A10 Networks customers. Dhrupad Trivedi joined A10 Networks in December 2019 as president and chief executive officer. A10 Networks states its mission is to help enterprises and service providers build business-critical networks and applications that are secure, available, and efficient.^{[1][4][5][7][8]}

Categories

• DDoS protection (primary category)
• API security
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Headquarters

San Jose, United States^[2]

Founded

Not established from our sources

Ownership

Public (NYSE: ATEN)^{[2][3][6][10]}

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Website

a10networks.com

Products and services

Product names as the company writes them; what each does, in our words, from the company's own product pages. Never how well it does it.

• ThreatX by A10 Networks^[3][5]

  Web application protection platform.

• TrojAI by A10 Networks^[3][5]

  AI Guardrails and Red Teaming.

• A10 Defend DDoS Mitigator^[5]

  DDoS mitigation with intelligent automation.

• A10 Defend DDoS Orchestrator^[5]

  DDoS defense monitoring, orchestration and management.

• A10 Thunder® ADC^[4]

  Application delivery controller and load balancer.

  A10 Thunder® ADC is described as a high-performance application delivery controller and advanced load balancer. Thunder ADC provides consistent application delivery services across hardware appliances, virtual machines, bare metal, containers, and public cloud environments.

• A10 Thunder® CGN^[4]

  Carrier-grade NAT, IPv4 preservation and IPv6 migration.

• A10 Thunder® CFW^[4]

  Consolidated network security platform.

• A10 Control^[3][4][6]

  Centralized management, control and analytics platform for A10 solutions.

Competitors and alternatives

The other companies on our record filed under the same categories, category by category: first those that lead with that category and share more of A10 Networks's categories, then alphabetical. A list from the record, never a ranking.

• On ddos protection, A10 Networks competes with Cloudflare, NETSCOUT, DataDome, Fastly, Imperva, Akamai, Blackwall, Brava, Network Critical, Nokia and 2 more.

• On api security, A10 Networks competes with 42Crunch, Cequence Security, Data Theorem, Escape, Levo.ai, Pynt, Salt Security, Traceable AI, Wallarm, DataDome and 15 more.

Recent news

Dated company events from the last twelve months, each in one sentence of ours with its source. Newest first.

• August 13, 2026

  A10 Networks announced general availability of the A10 AI Gateway, a control plane for routing, cost management and governance across AI agents, applications and LLMs. A10 Networks^[9]

• June 15, 2026

  A10 Networks announced it has acquired TrojAI, an AI security company focused on securing, testing and governing AI applications and agentic workflows. A10 Networks^[10]

References

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1. [1]a10networks.comA10 Networks · a10networks.com · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
2. [2]DefaultA10 Networks · investors.a10networks.com · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
3. [3]A10 Networks: Enterprise Security & Infrastructure SolutionsA10 Networks · undated page, accessed October 23, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
4. [4]A10 Products | Enterprise Security & InfrastructureA10 Networks · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
5. [5]A10 Security Products | A10 NetworksA10 Networks · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
6. [6]A10 Thunder ADC: Application Delivery & Load BalancingA10 Networks · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
7. [7]Cloud Access Proxy Solution | A10 NetworksA10 Networks · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
8. [8]Leadership Team | A10 NetworksA10 Networks · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
9. [9]A10 Networks Launches A10 AI Gateway, an Intelligent Control Plane for All AI OperationsA10 Networks · published August 13, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
10. [10]A10 Networks Acquires TrojAI Inc., Expanding AI RoadmapA10 Networks · published June 15, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing

Last verified November 9, 2026. Our code found the quoted passage behind each fact on its source page when the fact was recorded, and re-checks every record against its sources each month.

Recorded September 27, 2026, expanded November 4, 2026 from the references above.

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