Case Study: de Bijenkorf achieves always-on DDoS protection and faster online store performance with Cloudflare

De Bijenkorf speeds up and protects their online store with Cloudflare

de Bijenkorf, a luxury department store in the Netherlands, renewed its focus on e‑commerce to cement its online presence. After minor outages traced to low‑level SYN flood attacks and even an extortion attempt, the company needed reliable DDoS mitigation and improved site performance to avoid costly downtime and deliver a premium customer experience.

de Bijenkorf chose Cloudflare for its proven DDoS protection and global CDN, using a single dashboard to absorb and block malicious traffic and apply page‑caching rules that simplify the web architecture. The result: the webstore remains online during attacks, revenue loss is prevented, and a single vendor now provides both security and high performance while speeding development.

De Bijenkorf

Christiaan Mourik

Head of Technology