Case Study: Handelsblatt Media Group achieves continuous uptime and accelerated digital transformation with Cloudflare

How Cloudflare is Powering Handelsblatt Media Group’s Digital Transformation

Handelsblatt Media Group, Germany’s leading business and financial publisher, was facing repeated, concerted online attacks that overwhelmed its origin servers and threatened reader trust just as it pursued a broader digital transformation. The organization needed a solution that would stop attacks, improve performance and reliability, and enable more efficient, cloud-friendly operations.

After a swift, zero‑downtime migration to Cloudflare, HMG enabled WAF and DDoS protection to immediately stop the outages and now leverages Cloudflare’s API-driven controls, Argo Smart Routing and serverless Workers to define infrastructure as code, automate deployments, and route traffic around congestion. The result: eliminated downtime from attacks, faster site performance, a greatly accelerated development pipeline, and an independent layer for managing on‑premise and multi‑cloud environments.

Handelsblatt Media Group

Isabel Wolters

Chief Technology Officer