StackPath LLC today announced today that it’s launching its ambitious internet security-as-a-service software suite in hopes of providing a single platform that can handle all manner of cyber-threats.

The Dallas-based company, which introduced its intentions in July, said the first product in the suite is a Secure Content Delivery Network used to deliver video and other web content. It’s available starting at $20 a month for 200GB of monthly bandwidth.

“That’s a big target for attacks,” Nathan Moore (above), principal architect of the product at StackPath, said in an interview. A CDN can host hundreds of thousands of sites, which provide a large number of opportunities for cyber attacks.

Eric Hanselman, chief analyst at 451 Research LLC, said a CDN makes sense as a first piece of a security suite because it’s a broadly used product that collects a lot of data. That data can be used to help improve the overall suite as it’s rolled out in the next year or so.

The company was founded by Chief Executive Lance Crosby, onetime founder and CEO of SoftLayer, which IBM Corp. bought in 2013 and made the foundation of its cloud division. He told SiliconANGLE in July that it will take dozens of services over a number of years to build the unified security platform he’s aiming for.

Moore wouldn’t reveal what’s next on StackPath’s agenda, but he said Domain Name Services are another often-attacked area. Other products will likely be based on other acquisitions the company made, including web application firewall provider Fireblade Ltd., the virtual private network firm Cloak and Staminus Communications Inc., which makes technology to repel distributed denial of service attacks.

“This is just step one to create more of a secure Internet as a whole,” Moore said. “There’s a lot more in the pipeline.”

StackPath has written a new “threat intelligence engine” that uses machine learning to keep finding new threats across a wide variety of Internet services. That way, attackers will have a tougher time than they do currently, when fragmented services have varying levels of protection because of a disconnect between software developers and information technology administrators who must try to secure the services.

The company has raised $150 million in an initial round from ABRY Partners, an unusually large amount for a startup. But Crosby started with the intention to build the service through acquisitions, requiring a large slug of funding.

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