Case Study: Chick-fil-A achieves stronger account takeover protection with Fastly Next-Gen WAF

Chick-fil-A Protects Digital Transformation Assets with Automated Web App Security

Chick-fil-A needed a flexible web application security solution to protect the critical mobile and web apps central to its digital transformation. Their legacy web application firewall, which relied on pattern matching, was ineffective against modern threats like account takeover and could not keep up with their distributed software deployments. They required a future-ready solution to secure these public-facing assets without impacting application performance.

The company implemented the Fastly Next-Gen WAF (Signal Sciences) for its deep contextual analysis and easy deployment. The solution provided effective protection against account takeover attempts and other attacks without requiring heavy maintenance or impacting app performance. Fastly's agent was quickly deployed across their hybrid infrastructure, offering superior visibility and the ability to create advanced, custom protections, securing their applications in both data center and AWS environments.

Chick-fil-A

Robert Davis

Director of Cybersecurity