Case Study: SDIS 62 strengthens public safety and reduces attack exposure with Imperva Cloud WAF

SDIS 62 secures 32 public IPs in 15 days with Imperva Cloud WAF

SDIS 62, a French public fire and rescue service, faced significant security challenges with an outdated internal WAF that left known vulnerabilities unpatched and failed to properly filter traffic. This exposed their 32 public-facing applications and threatened the availability of systems critical for coordinating emergency response across 50 fire stations. To protect this essential infrastructure, they turned to vendor Imperva for its Cloud WAF solution.

Imperva implemented its Cloud WAF, which redirected all traffic through its platform to eliminate direct exposure of public IPs. The deployment was completed in-house in 15 days, securing all applications. The solution provided effective protection against DDoS attacks, botnets, and SQL injections with near-zero false positives, greatly reducing the attack surface. The team gained improved visibility and an intuitive dashboard for presenting security metrics, leading to greater operational ease and the confidence that their critical public safety systems were secured.