Blackwall

What the company sells

Blackwall provides a web traffic management platform that bundles bot mitigation, layer-7 DDoS protection, a web application firewall, traffic analytics, custom rule creation and content caching, aimed at hosting and service providers who resell it to their customers. The company describes itself as backed by investors and states it has raised $100 million at a $2.2 billion valuation, indicating private ownership with venture funding.^[1]

Categories

• Bot and abuse management (primary category)
• DDoS protection
• WAF and WAAP
• Network visibility and traffic brokering

Headquarters

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Founded

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Ownership

Privately held

CISO on record

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Website

blackwall.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.

• Bot Mitigation^[1]

  Detects and stops malicious automated traffic and scraping on customer web properties.

• L7 DDoS Protection^[1]

  Protects workloads against application-layer distributed denial-of-service attacks.

• Web Application Firewall^[1]

  Filters malicious web requests to shield applications from common vulnerabilities and injection attacks.

• Traffic Analytics^[1]

  Visualizes traffic patterns, visitor behaviour and anomalies for clients.

• Custom Rules^[1]

  Lets partners tailor security policies and traffic handling to individual client requirements.

• Content Caching^[1]

  Caches assets at the edge to accelerate content delivery and reduce origin server load.

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 Blackwall's categories, then alphabetical. A list from the record, never a ranking.

• On bot and abuse management, Blackwall competes with Arkose Labs, HUMAN Security, Fastly, Imperva, Cequence Security and Impart Security.

• On ddos protection, Blackwall competes with Cloudflare, NETSCOUT, A10 Networks, Fastly, Imperva, Nokia and Telia.

• On waf and waap, Blackwall competes with Fastly, Imperva, F5, Indusface, Cequence Security, Cloudflare, Barracuda Networks, Traceable AI and Wallarm.

• On network visibility and traffic brokering, Blackwall competes with SolarWinds, NETSCOUT, Corelight and Illumio.

References

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1. [1]blackwall.comBlackwall · blackwall.com · undated page, accessed October 21, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing

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