Case Study: Spread Group achieves flexible security and business growth with Fastly Next-Gen WAF

Fastly balances security and business growth for Spread Group

Spread Group, a tech-driven fashion and lifestyle provider, needed to protect its highly complex, fast-moving platform while preserving global performance and business growth. After using Fastly CDN for creative delivery, the company looked to Fastly Next-Gen WAF for a flexible security layer that could handle its massive traffic, evolving infrastructure, and threats like bots, DDoS, XSS, and SQLi without disrupting core business flows.

Fastly Next-Gen WAF implemented a high-performance, API-first, fail-open security approach with granular blocking and strong observability. Spread Group completed testing and rollout in three months, and the solution delivered seven key benefits including analytics insights, intuitive UI, low latency, and improved blocking accuracy; it also allowed the team to move from non-blocking to blocking mode while maintaining functionality.

Spread Group

Gernot Pörner

IT Architect