Case Study: 5miles achieves rapid, secure growth with Akamai Technologies' cloud security

Akamai Protects 5miles Against Online Attacks to Support Its Rapid Business Expansion

5miles is a fast-growing, hyper-local mobile marketplace that lets users buy and sell goods and services by phone using GPS-based matching. As the app expanded rapidly, 5miles faced mobile-specific security challenges—credential theft, malicious bots and scrapers, exposure of origin IPs, and SQL‑injection risks—while needing to maintain a seamless user experience.

Akamai implemented its Cloud Security Solutions in two months, delivering DDoS protection, application-layer firewalling, origin cloaking and 24/7 Security Intelligence support to proactively identify and block threats. The result was timely mitigation of attacks and vulnerabilities, improved website and mobile app performance and security, and a secure foundation to support 5miles’ continued growth.

5miles

Hui Zhang

Engineer