Case Study: Conrad Electronic reduces costs and complexity with Cloudflare

Conrad Electronic retires 1,000 VPN connections with Cloudflare

Conrad Electronic, a major European electronics sourcing platform, faced challenges securing its ecommerce platform against sophisticated bot and DDoS attacks during a cloud migration. Their existing provider required manual configuration for new threats and offered poor support. Additionally, their legacy VPN for 1,000 employees was complex to maintain and created administrative bottlenecks. They turned to Cloudflare for a security solution.

By implementing Cloudflare's WAF, DDoS mitigation, and Rate Limiting, Conrad Electronic achieved automated threat protection that stopped attacks like credential stuffing. Replacing their VPN with Cloudflare Access streamlined secure access to internal applications, saving over 10 hours of administrative work monthly. Cloudflare also provided measurable efficiency gains: Advanced Certificate Management saves 120 hours annually, and the Workers platform handles over a billion requests per month. The vendor consolidation with Cloudflare resulted in improved security, significant cost savings, and freed developer resources to focus on business growth.

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