Case Study: Schneider Versand achieves continuous e‑commerce availability and prevents €100,000/day revenue loss with Akamai Technologies' Kona Site Defender

Schneider Versand Protects Its E-Commerce Site And Revenues With Kona Site Defender

Schneider Versand, Europe’s largest specialist in promotional gifts, operates a high-traffic e-commerce site that grew rapidly after a 2009 relaunch. In December 2011 the company was hit by a week-long DDoS campaign—peaking at roughly 500,000 HTTP requests per minute—that jammed the firewall and forced the shop offline for three days, revealing the need for a comprehensive, cloud-based security strategy.

Schneider deployed Akamai’s Kona Site Defender and CDN after a short trial and with Akamai Professional Services, enabling attack filtering at the network edge and rapid implementation (about four weeks). The solution restored availability, capped potential revenue losses (estimated up to €100,000 per day), reduced hardware/software costs by roughly 10%, protected brand reputation, and improved content delivery to absorb peak campaign traffic.

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Henning Dürkop

IT Coordinator, e-Commerce , Schneider Versand