Signal Sciences

Legacy WAFs provided high operational costs and response times, especially during critical traffic spikes.As the company continued to expand its offerings and provide great digital experiences for its customers, DeNA knew it needed to scale its web security posture to match. But their legacy hardware WAF was causing the team multiple issues and made it difficult to operate efficiently.It was impossible for the DeNA team to reroute customer page requests if their WAF was not performing correctly.The legacy WAF performance, combined with the high price of scaling hardware investments, made it clear to DeNA that they needed a new solution that can perform under pressure.

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.

Eventbrite had lost confidence in their security vulnerability scanner’s ability to identify malicious code or backdoors attackers could leverage and needed a comprehensive solution to protect their global sites and M&A properties.Additionally, Eventbrite was building its security strategy for securing acquired properties. They needed a vendor that could install it easily, provide security coverage quickly, and provide effective web layer security for any future merger or acquisition activity with a single solution.Eventbrite had never utilized a web application firewall (WAF) as part of their security stack: the team was hesitant about the performance, tuning, and maintenance issues that are common with legacy WAFs. But they reached a breaking point with vulnerability scanners and needed a vendor that would restore confidence in their security posture.