Case Study: Betfred prevents account takeover, reduces downtime, and halves infrastructure usage with Distil Networks

Betfred prevents account takeover attacks, reduces downtime, and dramatically decreases infrastructure usage by deploying Distil Networks

Betfred, one of the UK’s largest bookmakers, faced severe bot-related problems across its digital platforms: up to 87% of some domain traffic was bad bots, credential‑stuffing brute‑force attacks peaked at 30 per month, aggressive scraping of real‑time odds was costing revenue, and backend systems were under heavy strain—forcing large teams to spend significant time on incident response and risking downtime during peak events.

Betfred deployed Distil Networks on its private AWS cloud and integrated it with their CDN, which quickly halved daily web requests, made credential‑stuffing attacks rare and rapidly mitigated, eliminated unauthorized scraping, and cut backend CPU utilization from roughly 40% to about 3–4%. The solution prevented downtime during major events like the Grand National, reduced emergency weekend incidents, and came with ongoing analyst support, freeing the IT team to focus on other priorities.

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Shaun Clark

Head of Infrastructure