Success Story

• The client is a global leader in data management platforms, helping publishers increase audience engagement through interactive content.
• The firm leverages AI to activate first-party data and drive ad revenue through offerings like video ads, trivia, and polls.

To strengthen application resilience and support future growth, the client aimed to:

• Protect applications against escalating DDoS and bot attacks targeting web infrastructure.
• Prevent unplanned service outages during peak traffic hours to maintain operational stability.​
• Safeguard sensitive customer data to maintain trust and meet regulatory requirements.
• Handle sudden traffic spikes without compromising protection.
• Ensure security measures don't disrupt access or experience for legitimate users.

Cybage addressed these requirements by modernizing the traffic management layer and embedding advanced security capabilities into the existing infrastructure. The solution included:

• Migrating from a Classic Load Balancer to an Application Load Balancer (ALB).
• Integrating AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF) with the ALB.
• Configuring WAF rules to block DDoS attacks, bots, and malicious requests.
• Retaining Auto Scaling Groups with EC2 instances to ensure high availability and elasticity.
• Enhancing application protection without impacting legitimate user traffic.

• 100% reduction in malicious web traffic reaching the application through AWS-native security controls and edge-based threat filtering.
• 100% increase in application availability during peak traffic periods post implementing a resilient, cloud-native security architecture.
• Strengthened user trust and application security by protecting workloads against DDoS attacks, bots, and malicious web requests.
• Automated threat detection and mitigation accelerated incident response while minimizing manual security operations.
• Improved business resilience by ensuring secure and consistent access to essential business services.

• Completed traffic analysis and threat identification.
• Deployed the AWS WAF rules set.
• Refined and validated WAF rules for improved accuracy.
• Established continuous monitoring and security optimization.

AWS Security Architecture | Web Application Firewall (WAF) Implementation | Security 
Modernization | Continuous Security Optimization

• Integrate threat intelligence feeds to enable dynamic WAF rule updates.
• Enhance bot protection using behavioral analysis and adaptive detection.
• Fine-tune WAF rules through continuous false positive and false negative analysis.
• Conduct regular rule audits and expand security automation to address evolving threat patterns.