Case Study: Money Forward secures and scales its applications with Cloudflare

Money Forward secures 3.36 million monthly firewall events with Cloudflare

Money Forward, a Japanese fintech company with a large user base for its financial management services, faced challenges with its existing web application firewall (WAF) that could not handle traffic surges, especially during peak financial periods at the start and end of each month. This exposed their origin servers to security and availability risks. They also struggled to manage a growing number of domains and SSL/TLS certificates. To address this, they turned to vendor Cloudflare for its application security and WAF solutions.

By implementing Cloudflare's Web Application Firewall and Advanced Certificate Manager, Money Forward automated security and certificate management. The solution, supported by partner Mitsui Bussan Secure Directions, now automatically mitigates millions of monthly firewall events. Cloudflare provided a scalable, stable platform that significantly reduced operational overhead, automated time-consuming tasks, and gave the company's teams the confidence to focus on improving their business services instead of infrastructure concerns.

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