Allot

Allot has spent nearly three decades building deep packet inspection and network intelligence technology for telecom carriers, and has repositioned that network-layer visibility into a security business over the past several years. Founded in 1996 and headquartered in Hod HaSharon, Israel, the publicly traded company (Nasdaq and Tel Aviv Stock Exchange: ALLT) now sells DDoS Secure, a carrier-grade distributed denial-of-service detection and mitigation product, alongside its Allot Secure family of consumer and SMB security-as-a-service offerings for mobile, fixed, and 5G network operators.

The distribution model is Allot’s real differentiator: rather than selling security software directly to enterprises, it embeds protection into telecom operators’ own network infrastructure, letting carriers resell mobile security, DDoS protection, and IoT security as a subscription service to their entire subscriber base. That gives Allot access to a security market — consumer and SMB subscribers who would never buy a standalone security product — that most enterprise-focused vendors cannot reach directly, though it also means Allot’s growth is tied to carrier sales cycles and operator adoption decisions rather than direct enterprise sales.

As a public company with roughly 500 employees and revenue concentrated in Europe followed by Asia/Oceania, the Americas, and the Middle East and Africa, Allot has audited financials and SEC/Israeli securities filings available for independent verification, unlike most companies in this category. Frost & Sullivan has identified Allot’s DDoS mitigation approach as an optimal fit for service-provider environments, giving it independent third-party analyst recognition beyond its own marketing claims.