Case Study: ToolKing.com eliminates price & content scrapers and frees IT resources with Distil Networks

ToolKing.com - Customer Case Study

Tool King, a long-established (since 1978) online retailer of tools and expert buying advice, relies entirely on its website for sales and customer engagement. Facing frequent content- and price-scraping attacks that threatened intellectual property, pricing competitiveness and increased infrastructure costs, the IT team needed an automated, comprehensive solution to stop unknown bot threats before they caused damage.

Tool King deployed Distil Networks’ cloud-based bot detection and mitigation, which fingerprints and shares malicious bot signatures across its network. Distil blocked millions of bad bots (about 11M in month one, then 9M and 7M), eliminated 100% of price- and content-scrapers, reduced bot attacks by 40% in three months, freed IT resources through automation, and recouped hosting and bandwidth costs—delivering protection with no added cost to the business.

ToolKing.com

Brandon Allhands

Director of IT