Case Study: Large Pharmacy Company achieves protection from high-volume scraper bots and uninterrupted site availability with Netacea

Netacea Keeps an Online Pharmacy Safe from Scraping Attacks

Large Pharmacy Company is a leading online pharmacy operating across eight European countries and serving over 5 million customers. They were under sustained, high‑volume scraper attacks that caused inventory hoarding, threatened site performance and outages, and bypassed their WAF; the security team engaged Netacea (including an Offline Bot Audit and Netacea Bot Management) to address the problem without disrupting a planned re‑platforming.

Netacea used an Offline Bot Audit and machine‑learning Intent Analytics to show bad bots made up 57% of traffic—millions of requests in a week from tens of thousands of IPs—and then deployed server‑side Netacea Bot Management via a simple CDN integration (no agents). The result: scraper activity and inventory hoarding were mitigated, site availability protected even at peak events like Black Friday, re‑platforming was simplified, and bot traffic has been kept well under control with ongoing ML‑driven protection and responsive Netacea support.