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Scaling Attack Detections with Immediate Impact: Vimeo's IoT Journey
Technology Category
- Cybersecurity & Privacy - Application Security
- Cybersecurity & Privacy - Intrusion Detection
Applicable Industries
- Cement
- National Security & Defense
Applicable Functions
- Maintenance
Use Cases
- Supply Chain Visibility
- Tamper Detection
Services
- Testing & Certification
The Challenge
Vimeo, a leading professional video platform with over 150 million users globally, was facing a challenge in terms of visibility into production traffic and new merger and acquisition activity. The company's rapid scaling and recent acquisitions necessitated a robust application security program to prevent prevalent attacks like XSS, SQLi, API abuse, and account takeover. Additionally, Vimeo required a solution that would seamlessly integrate with their newly built AWS infrastructure without the need for extensive tooling and upkeep. The company also wanted all requirements to be consolidated under a single vendor for ease of use across multiple teams.
The Customer
Vimeo
About The Customer
Vimeo is the world’s leading professional video platform, providing powerful tools for hosting, sharing, and streaming high-definition video. With over 150 million users globally and a number of recent acquisitions, Vimeo is scaling fast but remains highly focused on ensuring the creators and viewers have a seamless experience on their site. To support the company’s recent growth, the Vimeo team knew they had to strengthen their current application security program.
The Solution
Vimeo implemented Signal Sciences for its comprehensive detection and blocking capabilities, ease of use, minimal configuration and maintenance, and extensive visibility into attacks on their applications. Within 30 days, Vimeo was able to install, test, and deploy the solution in production across all of a new acquisition's infrastructure. The solution provided immediate time-to-value across different functions and teams, including Engineering, SRE, Dev, and Security. The 'out of the box' configuration not only improved general visibility but also stopped a lot of bogus traffic from hitting their resources. Unlike other Layer-7 approaches to security, Signal Sciences' next-generation WAF required no rules or ongoing maintenance to stop OWASP Top 10 attacks.
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