Case Study: Vimeo achieves faster attack detection and lower operational overhead with Fastly Next-Gen WAF

Scaling Attack Detections with Immediate Impact

Vimeo, the world's leading professional video platform, faced a challenge securing its rapidly scaling infrastructure and recent acquisitions. Its security team, led by Director Corey Mahan, needed to modernize its attack detection to gain visibility into production traffic and prevent threats like XSS and SQLi without extensive tooling on their AWS infrastructure, all while consolidating requirements under a single vendor.

Fastly's Signal Sciences Next-Gen WAF was implemented as the solution. It provided deep attack detection and blocking capabilities, offering immediate "out-of-the-box" value by stopping bogus traffic and providing crucial visibility. Vimeo deployed it across all properties in just 30 days. The results included significant time savings by eliminating the need for manual rule tuning, nearly non-existent operational expenses, and the ability to scale user protections with automated responses to suspicious behavior, allowing the security team to focus on more critical tasks.

Vimeo

Corey Mahan

Director of Security