Case Study: Largest Multinational Banking and Financial Services Company reduces 1,300 load balancers to 25 and gains SSL offloading & DDoS protection with Radware

Multinational Bank Requires SSL Offloading and Application Protection to Stay in Business

A Fortune 500 multinational bank with 18,000 domestic branches, 191 overseas offices, 200,000 employees and roughly 400 million users relied on more than 180 web applications but faced scaling and security problems: its legacy load balancers couldn’t handle the connections-per-second required, most traffic was encrypted so attacks were hard to detect, and growing cyberattacks threatened service availability across multiple divisions and two data centers.

The bank deployed Radware Alteon (virtualized ADC and SSL offloading) and DefensePro (DDoS protection with SSL attack mitigation and ML-driven threat detection), gaining centralized management, encrypted-traffic inspection and on-demand capacity. The solution cut hardware from 1,300 load balancers to 25 Alteons, improved performance and latency, and maintained 24x7 availability and protection against multivector and encrypted attacks.