Cyber security solutions provider Imperva, Inc. has announced that Karger Publishers, a global medical and scientific publishing company, has selected Imperva Incapsula. The company will use the Incapsula service to ensure that its website, containing approximately 100 new scientific journals per year and a vast e-book archive, is accessible at all times by researchers at leading hospitals, research centers and universities all over the world.
In June 2015, the Karger website was the target of a massive distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that was controlled by a botnet with zombie clients all over the world. Shaken by the attack, the company evaluated several solutions and ultimately chose Imperva Incapsula because of its ability to detect, filter and control HTTPS traffic, the robustness of the cloud access security broker (CASB) offering and the speed at which Imperva was able to implement.
Once the Imperva Incapsula web application firewall (WAF) and content delivery network (CDN) were deployed in front of the Karger site, it resulted in an immediate drop in unwanted traffic. In addition, site performance has since improved and it has not been attacked again. The Imperva Incapsula Content Delivery Network (CDN) offers an added benefit of faster application delivery and enhanced user experience for researchers by enabling the Karger website to serve up dynamic content for paid subscribers without any cached content.
Imperva Incapsula is a cloud-based application delivery service that makes websites safer, faster and more reliable. Using Incapsula, organisations of any size can protect their businesses with enterprise-grade web application security, DDoS mitigation, performance optimization and load balancing.
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