Cybrary: Enhancing Real-Time Visibility and Modernization with Signal Sciences
Technology Category
- Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics
- Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration
Applicable Industries
- Cement
- National Security & Defense
Applicable Functions
- Maintenance
Use Cases
- Cybersecurity
- Supply Chain Visibility
Services
- System Integration
- Training
About The Customer
Cybrary is an online training and career development platform that prepares the next generation of IT and cybersecurity professionals. The platform has a wide range of pages and training content that needs to be protected. The infrastructure team at Cybrary, consisting of only two people, was dealing with issues that their legacy web application firewall (WAF) could not address. As a security-focused organization, Cybrary needed to maintain their brand identity and ensure their security practice was cutting-edge. They needed a solution that could provide more context and visibility at the app layer and make more precise blocking decisions to stop bad web requests.
The Challenge
Cybrary, an online training and career development platform for IT and cybersecurity professionals, was facing a multitude of attacks across its APIs and web properties. Their legacy web application firewall (WAF) was proving inadequate in terms of usability and attack coverage. The two-person infrastructure team at Cybrary was grappling with issues that their legacy WAF could not address. The traditional model of blocking based on pattern matching, such as a specific SQL-injection string, was not effective for their needs. The legacy WAF was not only difficult to configure and debug but also provided incomplete attack coverage and blocked valid requests. It lacked real-time visibility, alerting, or a functional dashboard to monitor activity over time. As a security-focused organization, Cybrary needed to maintain their brand identity and ensure their security practice was cutting-edge.
The Solution
Cybrary sought a modern, feature-rich WAF solution that could be easily configured, block attacks, work natively within Kubernetes containers, and provide real-time alerting without requiring heavy maintenance investment. They chose to replace their legacy WAF with Signal Sciences after a successful two-week pilot. The pilot demonstrated the ease of use, performance, and availability of features required by the infrastructure team, including Slack integration and a unified dashboard, all working seamlessly with Kubernetes. Signal Sciences provided immediate value during the pilot, blocking attacks that the legacy WAF was missing. It also offered complete protection against OWASP Top 10, allowing Cybrary to quickly define, monitor, and take action on any web application or API transaction without extensive tuning. Additionally, Cybrary could protect their WordPress site without using any additional plugins.
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