This week, the duel is between two cybersecurity software providers: Cloudflare Inc. and Datto Holding Corp The Case For Cloudflare This San Francisco-based company has its roots in Project Honey Pot, an open-source endeavor created in 2004 by Matthew Prince and Lee Holloway to track how spammers culled email addresses. In 2009, they were joined by Michelle Zatlyn and shifted their focus from tracking Internet-borne threats to stopping them. Over the years, the company grew by acquiring multiple firms—Vetrix and Area 1 Security last month and Zaraz in December—and by mitigating a series of mega-distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that generated positive media coverage for the company. Cloudflare opened for public trading in September 2019. Among its recent corporate developments, Cloudflare announced it was not following other U.S. companies out of Russia but would continue to provide some services because “Russia needs more Internet access, not less.” Earlier this …