Vimeo: Enhancing Security and Scaling Attack Detections with Immediate Impact
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
About The Customer
Vimeo is a leading professional video platform that provides powerful tools for hosting, sharing, and streaming high-definition video. With over 150 million users globally and a number of recent acquisitions, Vimeo is experiencing rapid growth. Despite this, the company remains highly focused on ensuring that creators and viewers have a seamless experience on their site. To support its recent growth, Vimeo recognized the need to strengthen its current application security program to prevent prevalent attacks and ensure the safety and security of its users and their data.
The Challenge
Vimeo, the world’s leading professional video platform, faced a significant challenge in maintaining the security of its rapidly expanding user base, which includes over 150 million users globally. The company's rapid growth and recent acquisitions necessitated a robust application security program to prevent prevalent attacks like XSS, SQLi, API abuse, and account takeover. Additionally, Vimeo needed a solution that would seamlessly integrate with their newly built AWS infrastructure without requiring extensive tooling and upkeep. The company also sought to consolidate all requirements under a single vendor for ease of use across multiple teams. A lack of visibility into production traffic and new merger and acquisition activity further highlighted the need for attack detection modernization.
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. Signal Sciences now provides deep attack detection and blocking capabilities for billions of daily requests on all of Vimeo’s public-facing production sites. Within 30 days, Vimeo was able to install, test, and deploy the solution in production across all of a new acquisition's infrastructure. The 'out of the box' configuration provided immediate uplift for general visibility and stopped a lot of bogus traffic from hitting Vimeo's resources. The solution also allowed Vimeo to deploy across all their newly acquired properties quickly, providing them with traffic insights they previously lacked.
Operational Impact
Quantitative Benefit
Case Study missing?
Start adding your own!
Register with your work email and create a new case study profile for your business.
Related Case Studies.
Case Study
System 800xA at Indian Cement Plants
Chettinad Cement recognized that further efficiencies could be achieved in its cement manufacturing process. It looked to investing in comprehensive operational and control technologies to manage and derive productivity and energy efficiency gains from the assets on Line 2, their second plant in India.
Case Study
Data Capture for Afghanistan Forces
Electronic equipments on the field of Afghanistan provided information on the status of the vehicle and to identify potential threats surrounding it to the British Force. The monitoring and interpretation of this data requires robust and sophisticated digitization for data capture and communication.
Case Study
Digital Transformation of Atlanta Grout & Tile: An IoT Case Study
Atlanta Grout & Tile, a Tile, Stone & Grout restoration company based in Woodstock, Georgia, was facing challenges with its traditional business model. Despite steady growth over the years, the company was falling behind the web revolution and missing out on the opportunity to tap into a new consumer base. They were using independent software from different vendors for each of their department information and workforce management. This resulted in a lot of manual work on excel and the need to export/import data between different systems. This not only increased overhead costs but also slowed down their response to clients. The company also had to prepare numerous reports manually and lacked access to customer trends for effective business decision-making.
Case Study
Enhancing Security and Compliance in Remitly's Global Money Transfer Service with Fastly
Remitly, an online remittance service, was faced with the challenge of securing its proprietary global transfer network. The company needed a security solution that could meet PCI requirements and protect customers' sensitive transactions through its mobile application. The solution had to be capable of defending against new and emerging attack types without impacting performance. Remitly also had to deal with irregular traffic patterns, such as a sudden spike in account transfers from a small network segment on the Pacific coastline of South America. The company needed to determine in real time whether such traffic indicated an attack or valid requests. A traditional web application firewall (WAF) would not be able to distinguish this traffic, potentially leading to customer frustration if the IP was blacklisted.
Case Study
Major Aerospace Company Automates Asset Management
The O&M division of an aerospace and global security company was using spreadsheets to manually track more than 3,000 assets assigned to students and staff. Maintaining audit trails for this high volume of equipment became increasingly time-consuming and challenging. The chore involved knowing precisely what equipment was on hand, what had been issued, its location and the name of the custodial owner of each item. Every aspect of this task was carried owner of each item. Every aspect of this task was carried out by individuals with spreadsheets. Manually documenting the full lifecycle of each asset added to the burden. This included tracking maintenance requirements and records, incidents and damages, repairs, calibrations, depreciation, and end-of-life data.
