Insurance Company Secures Website and Meets Compliance with Cloudflare
Client Overview
This case study features a large life insurance company that provides financial and insurance services and operates in global markets. As the industry involves large volumes of sensitive data and high-frequency transactions, the company must ensure website security, DDoS protection, and compliance to maintain service continuity and customer trust.
Key Challenges
The company’s legacy security infrastructure struggled to cope with growing cyber threats and compliance needs, facing the following challenges:
- Inability to withstand DDoS attacks, causing bandwidth overload
- Malicious traffic increased server load, affecting access for legitimate users and disrupting business operations.
- Traffic spikes overwhelmed the system, degrading website performance and user experience.
- Lack of real-time defense against new cyber threats
- The previous solution could not block the latest threats in real time, leaving data vulnerable.
- An advanced defense mechanism was needed to prevent data leaks.
- Required compliance with global financial and cybersecurity regulations
- As a financial institution, the company must comply with PCI DSS, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, GDPR, and other international standards to safeguard client data.
Cloudflare Solution & Benefits
The company adopted Cloudflare Advanced DDoS Protection and WAF to enhance website security and compliance, achieving the following benefits:
✅ Cloudflare Anycast architecture mitigates DDoS attacks
- 330+ global Anycast nodes enable immediate interception of malicious traffic and reduce server load.
- Unlimited DDoS mitigation automatically detects and blocks suspicious traffic to keep the website running.
✅ WAF protects against emerging cyber threats and ensures uptime
- Cloudflare WAF intercepts malicious requests, protecting against SQL Injection, XSS, and other attacks.
- 24/7 monitoring and auto-updated rules defend against zero-day attacks.
✅ Enhanced compliance to meet global standards
- Cloudflare architecture complies with PCI DSS, ISO 27001, and GDPR, aligning cybersecurity practices with regulations.
- Real-time reporting and monitoring tools offer visualized data to simplify regulatory audits.
Results & Business Impact
🚀 Enhanced DDoS defense with 100% website availability
- Improved DDoS protection ensured uninterrupted web access during attacks.
- Bandwidth load reduced by 50–90%, enabling smooth service delivery to clients.
🔐 Cybersecurity upgrade and improved compliance
- Cloudflare WAF blocks emerging attacks, reducing incident rates and enhancing risk control.
- Meets international regulatory standards, ensuring continued cybersecurity compliance.
💡 Reduced IT burden and improved operational efficiency
- All security management centralized in Cloudflare Dashboard, allowing the IT team to monitor and adjust from a single platform.
- Automated defense reduces manual configuration workload, improving cybersecurity operations.
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