Advanced Protection from Sophisticated Bots

Digitalisation and the thrive to enhance transparency in education has pushed universities to adopt cloud solutions for their data. One of our clients, i.e. an International University based out of the USA was also facing a similar transformation in their system. Earlier, the website was made on premise and had faced various AI bot attacks, blocking various portals and disrupted operations for a whole week. From then onwards, the IT team was always asked to stay on-guard and had to work even overtime during peak times like admissions and examinations. This also peaked their security development costs. No sooner did they realize the dire need of a single and automated solution that could mitigate continuous bot attacks and could combat other malicious attacks as well. It was after all, a matter of their rapport as well.

The Challenges that they experienced

The on premise solution that they had wasn’t actually able to handle large data loads that was coming during peak times and ultimately was a sign that it needed something robust and fast to run smoothly. The advanced attacks they had faced also couldn’t be controlled well with the existing solution. Also, the IT teams were just overtaxing themselves with no efficient security outputs.

One of the bot attacks had hacked their websites during admissions and the management had to face the hardships of the disrupted website that lasted for days. Later on, it was found that it was a BotKit attack. The management declared the need of some external help and contacted Prophaze.

After a detailed meeting, Prophaze team could get insights into various incidents the university had faced. Since, Prophaze facilitates equal protection to K8s, cloud, and on premise, it could provide a fully integrated solution that is designed on a massive platform.