Case Study: Large Footwear Retailer Operating Company achieves six times more bot detection and stops scalpers with Netacea

Netacea Helps Sneaker Retailer Stop Bot Attacks Missed by CDN Based Solution

Large Footwear Retailer Operating Company, a trend-setting sneaker retailer selling limited‑edition releases, was under constant attack from sophisticated scalper bots that scraped product data and automated checkout, causing outages, excessive infrastructure charges and damaged reputation despite using their CDN’s bundled bot management. They engaged Netacea and its Netacea Bot Management to evaluate and stop the attacks missed by the incumbent solution.

Netacea ran a 28‑day proof of value, integrated Netacea Bot Management via a CDN plugin, and detected six times more malicious requests than the CDN’s solution (and three times more than the CDN’s upgraded tier). After deploying Netacea inline and switching off the previous provider, the retailer saw an immediate drop in bad traffic with no impact on orders or conversions, reduced infrastructure strain and outages, prevention of scalping during hot drops, and elimination of slow manual policy updates — delivering demonstrably higher detection and operational savings.