diff --git a/modules/contentbox/models/security/RateLimiter.cfc b/modules/contentbox/models/security/RateLimiter.cfc
index cd67957d6..48c005d00 100755
--- a/modules/contentbox/models/security/RateLimiter.cfc
+++ b/modules/contentbox/models/security/RateLimiter.cfc
@@ -8,19 +8,13 @@
 component extends="coldbox.system.Interceptor" {
 
 	// DI
-	property name="settingService" inject="id:settingService@contentbox";
-	property name="securityService" inject="id:securityService@contentbox";
+	property name = "settingService" 	inject = "id:settingService@contentbox";
+	property name = "securityService" 	inject = "id:securityService@contentbox";
+	property name = "cachebox"			inject = "Cachebox";
 
 	/**
-	 * Configure
-	 */
-	function configure(){
-		// the limiter data
-		variables.limitData = {};
-	}
-
-	/**
-	 * Limiter
+	 * onRequestCapture
+	 * fires before any event caching or processing
 	 */
 	function onRequestCapture( event, data, buffer ){
 		var allSettings = variables.settingService.getAllSettings();
@@ -42,99 +36,81 @@ component extends="coldbox.system.Interceptor" {
 		}
 	}
 
-	/**
-	 * Written by Charlie Arehart, charlie@carehart.org, in 2009, updated 2012, modified by Luis Majano 2016
-	 * - Throttles requests made more than "count" times within "duration" seconds from single IP.
-	 * - Duck typed for performance
-	 *
-	 * @count    The throttle counter
-	 * @duration The time in seconds to limit
-	 * @event    The request context object
-	 * @settings The settings structure
-	 */
-	private function limiter( count, duration, event, settings ){
+	/** 
+	* Written by Charlie Arehart, charlie@carehart.org, in 2009, updated 2012, modified by Luis Majano 2016
+	* - Throttles requests made more than "count" times within "duration" seconds from single IP. 
+	* - Duck typed for performance
+	* @count	The throttle counter
+	* @duration	The time in seconds to limit
+	* @event	The request context object
+	* @settings	The settings structure
+	*/
+	private function limiter( count, duration, event, settings ) {
 		// Get real IP address of requester
-		var realIP = variables.securityService.getRealIP();
-
-		// If first time visit, create record.
-		if ( !structKeyExists( variables.limitData, realIP ) ) {
-			lock name="cb-ratelimiter-#hash( realIP )#" type="exclusive" throwontimeout="true" timeout="5" {
-				if ( !structKeyExists( variables.limitData, realIP ) ) {
-					variables.limitData[ realIP ] = { attempts : 1, lastAttempt : now() };
-					return this;
-				}
-			}
-		}
-
-		lock name="cb-ratelimiter-#hash( realIP )#" type="readonly" throwontimeout="true" timeout="5" {
-			var targetData = variables.limitData[ realIP ];
+		var realIP 		= variables.securityService.getRealIP();
+		var cache 		= cachebox.getDefaultCache();
+		var cacheKey 	= 'limiter'&realIP;
+
+		var targetData = cache.getOrSet( cacheKey, function(){
+				return { attempts = 0, lastAttempt = now() }
+		} );
+
+		// on first visit no further processing
+		if( targetData.attempts == 0 ){
+			targetData.attempts++;
+			cache.set( cacheKey, targetData );
+  			return this;
 		}
 
 		log.debug( "Limit data", targetData );
-		// log.info( "DateDiff " & dateDiff( "s", targetData.lastAttempt, Now() ) );
-		// log.info( "Within Duration " & dateDiff( "s", targetData.lastAttempt, Now() ) LT arguments.duration );
-
+		//log.info( "DateDiff " & dateDiff( "s", targetData.lastAttempt, Now() ) );
+		//log.info( "Within Duration " & dateDiff( "s", targetData.lastAttempt, Now() ) LT arguments.duration );
+		
 		// Are we executing another request withing our duration in seconds? Ex: Has X seconds passed before last attempt
-		if ( dateDiff( "s", targetData.lastAttempt, now() ) LT arguments.duration ) {
+		if( dateDiff( "s", targetData.lastAttempt, Now() ) LT arguments.duration ){
 			// Limit by count?
-			if ( targetData.attempts GT arguments.count ) {
-				if ( settings.cb_security_rate_limiter_logging && log.canInfo() ) {
+			if( targetData.attempts GT arguments.count ){
+
+				if( settings.cb_security_rate_limiter_logging && log.canInfo() ){
 					// Log it to app logs
-					log.info(
-						"'limiter invoked for:','#realIP#',#targetData.attempts#,#cgi.request_method#,'#cgi.SCRIPT_NAME#', '#cgi.QUERY_STRING#','#cgi.http_user_agent#','#targetData.lastAttempt#',#listLen( cgi.http_cookie, ";" )#"
-					);
+					log.info( "'limiter invoked for:','#realIP#',#targetData.attempts#,#cgi.request_method#,'#cgi.SCRIPT_NAME#', '#cgi.QUERY_STRING#','#cgi.http_user_agent#','#targetData.lastAttempt#',#listlen(cgi.http_cookie,";" )#" );
 				}
-
+				
 				// Log attempt
-				lock name="cb-ratelimiter-#hash( realIP )#" type="exclusive" throwontimeout="true" timeout="5" {
-					targetData.attempts++;
-					targetData.lastAttempt = now();
-				}
+				targetData.attempts++;
+				targetData.lastAttempt = now();
+				cache.set( cacheKey, targetData );
 
 				// Do we have a redirect URL setup?
-				if ( len( settings.cb_security_rate_limiter_redirectURL ) ) {
-					location(
-						settings.cb_security_rate_limiter_redirectURL,
-						"false",
-						"301"
-					);
+				if( len( settings.cb_security_rate_limiter_redirectURL ) ){
+					location( settings.cb_security_rate_limiter_redirectURL, "false", "301" );
 					return;
 				}
 
 				// Output Message
-				writeOutput(
-					replaceNoCase(
-						settings[ "cb_security_rate_limiter_message" ],
-						"{duration}",
-						arguments.duration,
-						"all"
-					)
+				writeOutput( 
+					replaceNoCase( settings[ "cb_security_rate_limiter_message" ], "{duration}", arguments.duration, "all" ) 
 				);
-				arguments.event
-					.setHTTPHeader( statusCode = "503", statusText = "Service Unavailable" )
-					.setHTTPHeader( name = "Retry-After", value = arguments.duration );
+				arguments.event.setHTTPHeader( statusCode="503", statusText="Service Unavailable" )
+					.setHTTPHeader( name="Retry-After", value=arguments.duration );
 
 				// No execution anymore.
 				event.noExecution();
 
 				// Hard abort;
-				abort;
+				abort; 
 			} else {
 				// Log attempt
-				lock name="cb-ratelimiter-#hash( realIP )#" type="exclusive" throwontimeout="true" timeout="5" {
-					targetData.attempts++;
-					targetData.lastAttempt = now();
-				}
+				targetData.attempts++;
+				targetData.lastAttempt = now();
 			}
 		} else {
 			// Reset attempts counter, since we are in the safe zone, just log the last attempt timestamp
-			lock name="cb-ratelimiter-#hash( realIP )#" type="exclusive" throwontimeout="true" timeout="5" {
-				targetData.attempts    = 0;
-				targetData.lastAttempt = now();
-			}
+				targetData.attempts = 0;
+	       		targetData.lastAttempt = now();
 		}
 
+		cache.set( cacheKey, targetData );
 		return this;
 	}
-
 }