Case Study: eToro achieves uninterrupted trading availability with Imperva (Incapsula)

How Imperva protected eToro’s social trading platform from recurring DDoS attacks

eToro is a global social trading platform (founded 2007) with 2.75 million users across 140+ countries, operating dozens of sites and proprietary APIs that process thousands of transactions per minute. In July 2012 the company faced recurring network- and application-layer DDoS attacks that disrupted availability; internal and hosting-provider efforts were time-consuming and insufficient, and eToro needed a PCI-compliant, low-latency, 24x7 solution that wouldn’t affect traders’ experience.

Incapsula was implemented quickly and without downtime, routing traffic through global scrubbing centers to absorb Layer 3/4 attacks and using bot detection plus progressive challenge technology to filter Layer 7 attacks transparently. The result is continuous, managed protection for eToro’s sites and APIs, minimal false positives and no user-facing delays, and 24x7 support that lets eToro focus on running its trading network.

eToro

Johnathan Assia

CEO