Case Study: The Motley Fool stops screen scraping and blocks web application attacks with Imperva SecureSphere

The Motley Fool Stops Screen Scraping and Web Application Attacks with Imperva

The Motley Fool, a multimedia financial-services company, needed to protect its website, member data and proprietary CAPS stock-rating content from screen scraping, SQL injection and comment-spam while avoiding the noise and ineffectiveness of prior IPS solutions. The team required accurate, low-false-positive protection, flexible custom policies, application monitoring, customizable blocking responses and a non-intrusive, transparent deployment.

They deployed Imperva SecureSphere WAF in transparent bridge mode, profiling traffic in simulation and then actively blocking threats. SecureSphere stopped automated scraping and web attacks in real time with virtually no false positives, gave developers full request/response visibility to fix application issues, reduced comment spam, and delivered swift, stable deployment with lower operational cost.

The Motley Fool

Brandon Ragan

Lead Systems Engineer