Jumia Protects More Than One Hundred E-Commerce Websites with Imperva
October 18 2016 - 07:04AM
Imperva, Inc. (NYSE:IMPV), committed to protecting
business-critical data and applications in the cloud and
on-premises, today announced that it is protecting African retailer
Jumia’s more than 120 customer facing e-commerce websites with the
Imperva Incapsula service.
Considered to be the first “unicorn” in Africa, and a likely
target for cybercriminals looking to cash in on its success, Jumia
is using the Imperva Incapsula service for always-on protection
from DDoS and other cyberattacks. It is also using the service’s
Content Delivery Network (CDN) functionality to keep its websites
running smoothly, even during the peaks of high demand often seen
in e-commerce environments.
Jumia aims to create a connected digital Africa to improve
people’s lives. The company has developed a sustainable ecosystem
of digital services and infrastructure through online, mobile
markets and classified advertising. Jumia currently operates nine
digital services across 22 African countries, supporting more than
120 customer and merchant facing websites, plus hundreds of
back-end operations. With its growing success and increasing demand
for merchandise sold on its online electronics, fashion and home
appliance stores, Jumia opted for the Imperva Incapsula solution
which could scale to meet its rigorous requirements. The solution
also supports Jumia through peaks of increased demand in products
as witnessed during Black Friday and other special sales
promotions.
“All of our business comes through our websites. It is paramount
that the websites are always online, scale to sustain periods of
high-volume traffic and are safe from hackers looking to take them
down or gain access to our customer data,” said Henrique Alves, CTO
at Jumia. “Even one second of downtime leads to loss of income, and
being down for an hour or more could easily result in the loss of
millions of dollars in revenue. I sleep easier at night knowing
that Imperva Incapsula is on the job protecting against DDoS
attacks and ensuring content delivery for our e-commerce site.”
The provisioning of the Imperva Incapsula service was complete
in less than a week for all of the websites, and since the
deployment, Jumia has found that the CDN functionality is living up
to its high expectations.
"We use a variety of campaigns and promotions to market our
goods which often leads to unprecedented peaks of online traffic,"
continued Alves. "Imperva Incapsula handles the sustained high
levels, as well as peak traffic that other services may see as
indicative of an attack, but is just an influx in traffic. We also
use the traffic analysis information to help us plan campaigns as
well as see what has worked, and what could have been improved with
past campaigns."
Imperva Incapsula is a cloud-based application delivery service
designed to make websites safer, faster and more reliable. Using
Incapsula, organizations of any size can protect their businesses
with enterprise-grade web application security, DDoS mitigation,
performance optimization and load balancing.
“Imperva Incapsula is the ideal solution for digital businesses
such as Jumia that depend on the reliability of their websites to
drive revenue,” said Meg Bear, senior vice president, cloud
services at Imperva. “Importantly, for rapidly expanding companies,
Imperva Incapsula is scalable on multiple levels, including
pricing, to not only protect e-commerce websites from DDoS attacks
and other web exploits, but also to improve performance with its
comprehensive CDN without breaking the budget should an issue
arise.”
For more details on Jumia’s work with Imperva to protect its
websites, read the case study at bit.ly/Jumia_2efQvZV.
About Imperva Imperva®
(NYSE:IMPV) is a leading provider of cybersecurity solutions that
protect business-critical data and applications. The company’s
SecureSphere, CounterBreach, Incapsula and Skyfence product lines
enable organizations to discover assets and risks, protect
information wherever it lives – in the cloud and on-premises – and
comply with regulations. The Imperva Defense Center, a research
team comprised of some of the world’s leading experts in data and
application security, continually enhances Imperva products with
up-to-the-minute threat intelligence, and publishes reports that
provide insight and guidance on the latest threats and how to
mitigate them. Imperva is headquartered in Redwood Shores,
California. Learn more: www.imperva.com, our blog, on Twitter.
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Imperva, the Imperva logo, CounterBreach, Incapsula, SecureSphere
and Skyfence are trademarks of Imperva, Inc. and its
subsidiaries.
EDITORIAL CONTACTS:
Tami Casey
Imperva
tami.casey@imperva.com
Lucy Harvey
Eskenzi PR
imperva@eskenzipr.com
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