A+E Networks, a global entertainment company, was facing challenges in managing its streaming media services. With a portfolio of seven popular video brands, the company reaches 335 million people worldwide. However, the increasing demand for more viewers, more bandwidth, and more content was putting pressure on developers to deliver frequently and fast. The company's configuration management was largely manual and became slow and cumbersome as their portfolio grew. A build across each site could take hours, and as they added programming and moved to microservices, the time only expanded. A+E Networks also lacked visibility with their legacy Content Delivery Network (CDN), having to rely on professional services with no view of what was happening behind the scenes. The company wanted to empower developers to implement services and upgrades quickly and manage traffic spikes with a multi-CDN model.

Slate Magazine, a digital media pioneer, faced significant challenges with their legacy Content Delivery Network (CDN). The CDN lacked the agility to purge content and complete updates at the speed required by the rapidly evolving digital media landscape. The process of waiting for a change to go live could take as much as 15 minutes, which was highly inefficient in the fast-paced digital media industry. Additionally, the legacy CDN charged on a per-service basis and required XML for updates, adding to the workload of Slate's already busy team of developers. These challenges prompted Slate to seek a more efficient and agile solution.

BloomNation, an online flower retailer, faced a significant challenge in late 2019 when it was listed on Built In LA’s 50 Best Small Places to Work list. This recognition boosted their national profile but also attracted malicious actors to their website on a larger scale. The company was inundated with abusive attack traffic, including DDOS, SQLi, XSS, and credential stuffing, as malicious actors attempted to scan their web applications. This situation had a significant impact on the organization. Engineers had to divert their attention from building and deploying product features to manually researching and blocking IP addresses to keep the website operational. The surge in traffic also negatively affected the customer experience, with page load times slowing and the site breaking as attack requests increasingly hit their server instances. BloomNation needed a solution that could not only repel these attacks but also provide their engineering team with the ability to rate limit traffic to quickly tag and identify traffic signals based on custom criteria.

Betterment, an online financial advisor with over $14 billion in assets under management and a user base of over 380,000 customers, needed a solution to protect customer PII and financial assets. The company required a solution that could automatically scale and block attacks without impacting performance or requiring ongoing signature tuning. The company's Engineering and Security teams were particularly concerned about the signal-to-noise ratio based on their previous experience with legacy WAFs. It was crucial for them to find a WAF that could scale automatically and accurately block attacks without increasing support call volume or creating additional work for the Engineering or Security teams.

Namely, a cloud-first, all-in-one HR platform, was experiencing rapid growth, which necessitated the prioritization of its web defense. As the customer base of Namely expanded, so did its responsibility for managing web defenses, including detection, prevention, and response. In a fast-paced agile development environment, security leader Daniel Leslie was tasked with building security and IT from scratch. He was seeking innovative ways to manage website defenses, having had experience with legacy Web Application Firewalls (WAFs). His core criteria for a solution included technical alignment, ease-of-use, best-in-class security functionality, and total cost of ownership (TCO).

Movember, a leading charity organization focused on men’s health, was facing a significant challenge with their web application firewall (WAF) deployment. They had been using a traditional WAF solution that was rigid and unable to scale during peak traffic periods without constant tuning and intervention from their team. This was particularly problematic as Movember had recently transitioned to a cloud environment to better serve their donors and campaign participants, and to streamline their organizational initiatives. The conventional WAF solutions they tried to implement were not compatible with their modern application infrastructure. After six months of struggling to fit a legacy WAF solution into their system, the solution was never fully implemented, causing frustration and resulting in a solution that had to be discarded and replaced.

The Weather Company, a premier provider of accurate weather forecasts, insights, and alerts, serves over 400 million monthly active users worldwide. The company's primary challenge is managing the scale and volume of its user base, which peaks during severe weather events such as hurricanes or winter storms. The company needed a robust configuration, setup, and technology to support its users, particularly in delivering video technology and handling hundreds of millions of requests daily. These requests are crucial as users rely on them to make quick decisions during severe weather conditions.