Case Study: Jagex Games Studio achieves up to 95% DDoS mitigation and uninterrupted player experience with Corero SmartWall Threat Defense System

Jagex Drops The Warhammer Against DDOS With Corero

Cambridge-based Jagex Games Studio, creator of RuneScape and War of Legends, operates five datacentres supporting millions of players and faces performance-sensitive service demands. Frequent, evolving DDoS attacks—including reflection attacks and extortion attempts—were causing slowdowns, outages and hundreds of probing incidents per month, so Jagex needed an automatic, real-time solution that would protect availability without disrupting gameplay.

Jagex deployed Corero SmartWall TDS with SecureWatch Analytics and the SecureWatch PLUS service across its datacentres to provide on‑premises, real‑time detection, mitigation and threat intelligence. The rollout now absorbs roughly 95% of attacks with zero player impact, can handle attacks up to 400% of normal daily capacity, reduces customer‑impacting incidents and lowers the operational burden on IT staff.

Jagex Games Studio

Barry Zubel

Head of IT