Case Study: Logitravel (online travel company) achieves 100% uptime and DDoS protection with Verizon Digital Media

Using Rate Limiting to protecting their business from a massive DDoS attack

Logitravel, part of the Logitravel Group, is a 100% online travel company that helps over two million people a year book packages, cruises and tours across some 50 websites. With more than 285 million daily requests on its Edgecast CDN, the business faced severe risk from botnets and application-layer attacks; an 18‑hour DDoS with peaks above 150,000 requests/sec threatened revenue, reputation and continuous availability.

Verizon Digital Media Services protected Logitravel with Edgecast CDN features — Rate Limiting for L7 DDoS, a dual Web Application Firewall, bot mitigation, DNSSEC and managed cloud security — using instant propagation, penalty‑boxing and URL/method-specific controls to block malicious traffic while allowing legitimate users through. The result: 100% uptime during the attack, roughly 3,300 legitimate requests/sec served, eight hours of downtime prevented and 96 million online transactions processed across 50 sites.

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