NSFOCUS
About
NSFOCUS is an internet and application security company with 23+ years of experience that provides holistic, carrier-grade, hybrid DDoS and web security solutions powered by threat intelligence. The company operates globally with 4000+ employees across two headquarters in Beijing, China and Milpitas, CA, USA, plus 50+ offices worldwide. NSFOCUS serves more than 200,000 customers including telecom carriers, financial institutions, cloud service providers, managed security services providers, and ...
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Ideal Customer
- NSFOCUS primarily targets large enterprise, carrier-grade, and service provider customers — its sweet spot is organizations with significant network infrastructure and high-volume traffic exposure, such as telecom carriers, ISPs, IDCs, large financial institutions, government agencies, and cloud service providers.
- Its hybrid DDoS and security operations platforms are best suited for organizations that require scalable, multi-tenant protection and have dedicated security operations teams.
Key Differentiators
- NSFOCUS differentiates itself through its carrier-grade, AI-driven hybrid security architecture — combining on-premises appliances with a globally distributed cloud scrubbing network — backed by over 25 years of threat intelligence research from its NSFOCUS Security Labs.
- The company has developed NSFGPT, a proprietary Security Large Language Model (SecLLM) that integrates machine learning, expert knowledge, and 20+ years of accumulated threat data to power its AISecOps automation.
Industries Served
- NSFOCUS serves a broad range of industries including telecommunications, financial services (banking and insurance), internet service providers, data centers, hosting providers, cloud service providers, managed security service providers, retail, healthcare, critical infrastructure, government, and education.
- The company has a particularly strong track record with global carriers and banks — protecting over 25% of the Fortune Global 500, including four of the five largest banks and six of the world's top ten telecommunications companies.
Service Coverage
- NSFOCUS operates globally with two headquarters — one in Beijing, China, and one in Milpitas (Silicon Valley), California, USA — and over 50 offices worldwide spanning APAC, EMEA, North America, Latin America, and Greater China.
- The company maintains a presence in the United States, Japan, Europe (including the UK), Southeast Asia (Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia), Australia, and Brazil, with its international business division serving the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia.
Partnerships
- NSFOCUS maintains technology and channel partnerships in more than 60 countries, and is a member of the Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP) — giving it early access to vulnerability data — as well as the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA).
- Its WAF product supports deployment on major public cloud platforms including AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Alibaba Cloud, and Tencent Cloud, reflecting deep cloud ecosystem integrations.
Company Size & Ownership
- NSFOCUS was founded in 2000 and has grown to approximately 3,000–4,000+ total employees globally across its parent entity (NSFOCUS Technologies Group Co., Ltd.), though its international (IBD) operations reflect a smaller footprint of roughly 500–650 employees.
- The company's trailing twelve-month revenue as of early 2026 is approximately $353–358 million USD, up from $237 million in 2023, reflecting strong growth.
Compliance & Certifications
- NSFOCUS holds a comprehensive portfolio of certifications including ISO 27001 (Information Security Management), ISO 27701:2019 (Privacy Information Management System), ISO 22301 (Business Continuity), ISO 9001 (Quality Management), ISO 20000 (Service Management), ISO 14001 (Environmental Management), ISO 45001 (Health and Safety), and CMMI Maturity Level 5.
- The company is also CREST-accredited for both Penetration Testing and Vulnerability Assessment, and holds licenses for Penetration Testing and Managed SOC services issued by the National Cyber Security Agency (NACSA) of Malaysia and the Cybersecurity Services Regulation Office (CSRO) of Singapore.
Compiled from public sources by VenSearch · Last researched October 14, 2026
Offerings
30 offerings5G Network Security Solution
A security solution designed specifically for 5G network environments, addressing security for 5G core network infrastructure. It is listed as a distinct solution offering from NSFOCUS.
Active Defense Business Operation System (ADBOS)
A smart traffic scheduling platform for central management of on-premises and cloud-based DDoS defenses, operable via a self-service portal or smartphone apps. It provides central management for all Anti-DDoS devices and cloud services, allowing monitoring and traffic scrubbing from anywhere at any time.
Anti-DDoS System (ADS)
A stateless DDoS mitigation appliance that removes unwanted, malicious traffic and defends against complex, multi-vector DDoS attacks. It features automatic learning algorithms, scalable traffic mitigation with flexible licensing options ranging from 200Mbps to 1Tbps, and a service provider-ready modular architecture. The system includes real-time visualized attack mitigation with a customizable dashboard and multi-layered protection with minimal false positives.
Anti-DDoS System Manager (ADSM)
A centralized management and reporting platform for DDoS defense systems that also supports a customizable customer portal designed for providers offering Managed DDoS Services. The portal allows providers to give web-based access to customers for traffic analysis, reporting, and analytics.
Attack Threat Monitoring
A cloud-delivered service for monitoring attack threats targeting an organization. It is listed as part of NSFOCUS's cloud-delivered threat intelligence offerings.
Cloud DDoS Protection Service (Cloud DPS)
A cloud-delivered DDoS protection service designed for ISP/IDC/Hosting service providers, enterprises, government, and education organizations that defeats terabyte-level DDoS attacks with 7T+ mitigation capacity. It offers BGP diversion for infrastructure protection and DNS diversion for web-based applications, with flexible billing plans including 20G, 50G, 100G, and unlimited mitigation plans. The service supports always-on or on-demand operation and integrates with on-premises solutions.
Continuous Threat Exposure Management
A comprehensive cloud-delivered solution powered by EASM, PTaaS, VAPT, BAS, and VPT to help organizations reduce their threat exposure. It is designed to provide continuous visibility and management of an organization's attack surface and risk posture.
Exposed Internet Surface Analysis
A cloud-delivered service for analyzing an organization's exposed internet surface to identify and assess attack surface risks. It is listed as part of NSFOCUS's cloud-delivered threat intelligence offerings.
Flow Load Balancer (FLB)
A network appliance that collects traffic across the entire network and distributes it to multiple NTA devices to improve analysis performance. It is part of the Anti-DDoS System product suite.
Hybrid DDoS Protection
A complete hybrid DDoS mitigation solution that protects both customers and infrastructure by combining on-premises defenses with cloud-based scrubbing. It enables service providers to deliver Managed DDoS Services with a multi-tenant platform.
Intelligent Security Operations Platform (ISOP)
A consolidated security operations platform that combines XDR and SOAR capabilities, purpose-built for modern security operations centers. It uses AI and machine learning to automate security operations tasks, integrates with the NSFOCUS Threat Intelligence Center, performs full traffic analysis covering more than 150 types of encryption attack tools, and can reduce alert noise by 99% with AISecOps and SOAR automation.
Log Audit System (LAS)
A unified full lifecycle log audit solution for enterprises that supports comprehensive log collection from heterogeneous sources, flexible storage with up to 10:1 compressed storage efficiency, and second-level search performance. It provides real-time event alerting with built-in event correlation rules, effective asset management, and compliance readiness aligned with international standards including SOX, PCI DSS, and GDPR. Available in both hardware appliance and software editions with multiple deployment models.
Magic Flow (MF)
A high-fidelity network analysis tool that pinpoints malicious behaviors by leveraging modeling, machine learning, and threat intelligence. It is part of the Anti-DDoS System product suite.
Network Detection and Response (NDR)
An AI-driven network detection and response product with capabilities spanning detection, investigation, response, and operation across network security, data security, 5G security, and cloud/industrial control traffic monitoring. It integrates multiple detection approaches including rule-based detection, sandbox analysis, threat intelligence, AI/ML algorithms, and data security detection to address real-world attack scenarios. AI automates the NDR workflow including attack chain restoration and intelligent alarm filtering to reduce security team workload.
Network Traffic Analyzer (NTA)
A DDoS detection appliance that identifies attacks via traffic flow monitoring using an innovative, multi-stage DDoS detection engine with more than 30 vectors to accurately identify DDoS traffic from other traffic streams. It is part of the Anti-DDoS System product suite.
Next Generation Intrusion Prevention (NGIPS)
A next-generation intrusion prevention product listed among NSFOCUS's security operations product offerings. Specific feature details were not available on the pages provided.
Next-Generation Firewall
A next-generation firewall product listed among NSFOCUS's security operations product offerings. Specific feature details were not available on the pages provided.
NSFOCUS Managed Security Services
Managed security services offered by NSFOCUS to provide ongoing security management and monitoring for customers. It is listed as a distinct support and services offering from NSFOCUS.
NSFOCUS Product Support Services
Product support services for NSFOCUS customers covering their deployed NSFOCUS products. It is listed as a distinct support and services offering from NSFOCUS.
NSFOCUS Professional Services
Professional services offered by NSFOCUS to assist customers with their security needs. It is listed as a distinct support and services offering from NSFOCUS.
NSFOCUS Security Assessment Services
Security assessment services offered by NSFOCUS to evaluate customers' security posture and identify vulnerabilities. It is listed as a distinct support and services offering from NSFOCUS.
On-Premises DDoS Defenses
A solution for deploying DDoS defenses within an organization's own infrastructure. It is listed as a distinct DDoS defense solution offering from NSFOCUS.
Remote Security Assessment System (RSAS)
A comprehensive vulnerability assessment product that provides vulnerability detection across more than 270,000 vulnerabilities with over 200 new plugins released bi-weekly, expert security analysis, and actionable remediation guidance. It supports web application vulnerability scanning, insecure configuration checking, weak password protection, automated vulnerability verification, cloud computing vulnerability scanning, IoT vulnerability scanning, container image scanning, code auditing, and endpoint agent scanning. It has been featured in Gartner's Vulnerability Assessment Market Research Reports.
Remote Security Assessment System Security Center (RSAS-SC)
A virtual appliance-based distributed vulnerability assessment platform that builds on the capabilities of RSAS and extends them with a distributed scanner architecture, multi-tenant data isolation, and a built-in security policy engine. It provides distributed scanning at enterprise scale with centralized scanning engine management and asset-centric vulnerability management.
Threat and Vulnerability Management Platform (TVM)
A platform that integrates cloud threat intelligence with traditional scanning capabilities to provide full lifecycle vulnerability operations including asset discovery, exposure analysis, risk prioritization, remediation guidance, and continuous monitoring. It uses the NSFOCUS Threat Intelligence Center to enable emergency vulnerability notices within the first minute, and supports multi-source vulnerability integration from scan results, penetration tests, third-party vendor advisories, and threat intelligence feeds. An innovative vulnerability prioritization technology uses threat factors such as popularity, proof-of-concept availability, and malware association alongside asset factors to define disposal priorities.
Threat Intelligence Service
A cloud-delivered threat intelligence service operated by the NSFOCUS Threat Intelligence (NTI) Center that provides actionable intelligence to minimize risk and improve overall security posture. It covers special scenarios such as mining, extortion, APT, command and control attacks, and offensive and defensive drills. NSFOCUS has been named a Representative Vendor in Gartner's Market Guide for Security Threat Intelligence Products and Services in 2020, 2021, and 2023.
Training Services
Security training services offered by NSFOCUS to educate customers on cybersecurity topics and NSFOCUS products. It is listed as a distinct support and services offering from NSFOCUS.
Unified Threat Sensor (UTS)
An all-traffic threat detection sensor applicable to all industries that integrates rule engines, virtual sandbox, threat intelligence, and machine learning to detect and analyze advanced threats across different scenarios. It features encrypted traffic identification, full traffic retention for forensics, dynamic file monitoring for unknown threats, sensitive data monitoring, and 5G core network security capabilities. The UTS seamlessly connects with third-party platforms including the NSFOCUS ISOP platform.
Value-Added Service for ISP/MSP
A solution enabling internet service providers and managed service providers to offer value-added security services to their customers. It is listed as a distinct solution offering from NSFOCUS.
Web Application Firewall (WAF)
A next-generation web application firewall that provides comprehensive protection against OWASP top 10 attacks, DDoS attacks, and emerging threats using semantic analysis, intelligent analytics, and threat intelligence. It includes API security with shadow API control, dynamic bot traffic protection, virtual patching, and behavioral analysis, and can be deployed on-premises, in private infrastructure on KVM or VMware ESXi, or in public clouds including AWS, Azure, GCP, Alibaba Cloud, and Tencent Cloud.
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