Case Study: The RealReal achieves secure, fast e-commerce growth with Fastly

The RealReal blocks 31,000 monthly attacks with Fastly

The RealReal, the world's largest online marketplace for authenticated luxury goods, faced the dual challenge of securing its platform against approximately 31,000 monthly attacks while ensuring a flawless experience for its users. They needed a solution that would effectively block malicious bots and actors without creating false positives that could interrupt legitimate sales or slow down their developers. To meet this challenge, they turned to the security and delivery solutions from vendor Fastly.

By implementing Fastly's Next-Gen WAF, Bot Management, and CDN, The RealReal achieved immediate blocking of malicious traffic with high confidence, eliminating the fear of losing sales to false positives. The intuitive platform allowed their security team to ramp up quickly and provided excellent out-of-the-box protection. This solution created a frictionless relationship between developers and security, enabling multiple daily code deployments without sacrificing safety. Fastly provided the real-time visibility and reliable capabilities needed to maintain a trusted, high-quality platform for their users.

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