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Overview
[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]One of our prospects contacted Prophaze Technologies regarding their high bandwidth utilization and unavailability of their servers randomly. The client needs to processes thousands of requests prior to weekends. Server down time is a critical issue which comes under the three security pillars (CIA triad). As per the discussion with their prospect IT support Team, we got an overview of the incident.
Offenders were trying to hit the servers with thousands of requests from different IPs which makes their servers down on Fridays at the business peak hours. After analysis, we also confirmed that this was done using the bots.
Prophaze cloud security platforms offers protection from bots with the AI- based Behaviour detection. Then we on boarded the prospect for a pilot session for 2 days. Success criteria of the pilot is to mitigate this specific attack and Prophaze was successful in mitigating this attack.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row st_font_color=”#ffffff” css=”.vc_custom_1617798774373{padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;background-color: #1762b7 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][st_heading title=”The Challenges that they experienced”][/st_heading][vc_column_text]The security challenges includes HTTP flood attacks and DDoS attacks that takes the website down. Also found that malicious activities in off/down hours and bad IP addresses tried to get the access. The Institution requires protection against bots that could flood the website traffic, SQL-i attacks designed to fetch data and XSS that might insert malicious code into web pages.
Protection and scalability are the important things that they were looking for. After checking on several security products, the University chose Prophaze Kubernetes WAF because this offers the security and scalability as the company expected. Knowing how critical web application security is to the fabric of their business, they need protection against potential attack factors including click frauds.[/vc_column_text][st_heading title=”The Results”][/st_heading][vc_column_text]Our Kubernetes WAF solution has the ability to meet the challenges the company faced:
- Our products and services help them to analyse, do inbound/outbound content analysis, compliance and powerful policy configuration into a single solution.
- We tend to leverage known-bad IP lists to go with our proprietary Parsing technology, to form quick, inline decisions to identify and block malicious requests.
- Provides a lot of innovative approach to automatic detection and blockage of potential attacks in production environment
- Increased security against malicious activities and is up-to-date on securing itself against IP offenders and they are automatically blocked.
- Automatically scales to handle its increased security needs and reliable security without the false positives.
- The protection is much easier, better and scalable.
- Delivers faster incident-response time
- Provided scalable performance and centralized visibility into traffic and attacks at the web attack layer
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