TicketNetwork chose Imperva for several reasons: Scalability – Prior to deploying Imperva’s WAF, TicketNetwork used F5 Networks’ WAF in production. However, TicketNetwork encountered challenges with the F5 WAF’s ability to handle its needs for high traffic loads. After this problem continued for nearly a year, TicketNetwork decided to evaluate other WAF vendors, including Imperva.

“During our evaluation, it was clear that Imperva was not only easy to use, but could easily scale to meet our demanding requirements,” said Mr. Mathena.

ThreatRadar – Not only did the Imperva WAF easily handle TicketNetwork’s heavy traffic requirements, but Imperva also offered ThreatRadar, an add-on security service for SecureSphere Web Application Firewall (WAF) that provides an automated defense against automated attacks. By integrating credible, timely information on known attack sources into the WAF defense, ThreatRadar can quickly and accurately stop traffic from malicious sources before an attack can be launched.

“For TicketNetwork, ThreatRadar’s ability to block malicious IPs is huge. Traffic from bots and other automated attacks comprises about 25 percent of our site visits,” explained Mr. Mathena.

TicketNetwork uses Imperva’s WAF in block mode, stopping a good chunk of bad traffic before it even comes to the gate.

“Today, all of our traffic flows through Imperva,” said Mr. Mathena.

Fast time to deployment – Quick deployment means quick compliance and security.

Mr. Mathena explains, “With Imperva, our WAF was up in less than a week. This dramatically improves our speed to security and compliance. Additionally, this means my security team can focus on other priorities.”“My favorite thing about the Imperva SecureSphere product is its ease of use—it’s simply unparalleled,” explained Mr. Mathena.