Philippe Humeau graduated in 1999 as IT security engineer from EPITA (Paris, France).

He founded his first company at the same time and quickly oriented it towards penetration testing and high security hosting. He was also deeply involved in Magento’s community creation & animation in France and versed into eCommerce (wrote 4 books on the topic). The company (NBS) was sold in 2016 and Philippe founded CrowdSec in 2019, gathering all his experience to create a new Open-source security...

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Security monster

Protect your PHP website from bots with this open source tool

The CrowdSec bouncer is designed to be included in any PHP application to help block attackers.
Philippe Humeau 19 Jan 2022
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Help safeguard your Linux server from attack with this REST API

CrowdSec's new architecture improves communication among components to better protect systems against cybersecurity threats.
Philippe Humeau 20 Jan 2021
Security monster

How this open source security tool halted significant DDoS attacks

Configuration changes to CrowdSec stopped a 7,000-machine botnet in less than a minute.
Philippe Humeau 01 Dec 2020
Lots of people in a crowd.

New open source project crowdsources internet security

CrowdSec aims to leverage the power of the crowd to create a very accurate IP reputation database
Philippe Humeau 23 Oct 2020