Case Study: Spread Group achieves flexible security and business growth with Fastly

Fastly balances security and business growth for Spread Group

Spread Group is a global fashion and lifestyle company that produces customized apparel and accessories on demand for customers in 170 countries. As its platform grew more complex, it needed a way to keep delivering fast, reliable user experiences while strengthening cybersecurity across a highly dynamic environment. With Fastly CDN already in place, Spread Group turned to Fastly for a flexible security solution that could better support its rapid release cycle and business scale.

Fastly implemented the Fastly Next-Gen WAF alongside its CDN to provide blocking-mode protection, strong observability, and low-latency performance without disrupting core business flows. The rollout took three months and delivered seven key benefits, including analytics insights, granular threshold-based blocking, a fail-open approach, and an API-first design. Fastly helped Spread Group block malicious requests while preserving functionality, reducing manual tuning, and improving its ability to respond to threats like bots, DDoS, XSS, and SQLi attacks.

Spread Group

Tobias Zschietzschmann

Security Engineer