They get shit on a lot here. Why? What do they do and how is that different from other companies that offer similar services?

What I know of them: they offer DDS brute force/spam protection for websites.

  • IphtashuFitz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    They terminate the TLS sessions at their servers and reencrypt to forward to the backend. This allows them to analyze the data to spot spam, optimize compression and such

    And any organization that utilizes a CDN/security provider, like Akamai, AWS, Fastly, etc. knows that they all do this. They need access to the unencrypted content in order for services like CDN and WAF to work properly.