Case Study
Datalex Integrates Distil Networks with F5 to Protect Airline Websites From Advanced Persistent Bots
Datalex Integrates Distil Networks with F5 to Protect Airline Websites From Advanced Persistent Bots
Datalex Datalex Integrates Distil Networks with F5 to Protect Airline Websites From Advanced Persistent Bots www.distilnetworks.com sales@distilnetworks.com 1.866.598.6787 2 BOT BUSTER Eric Chapin, Security Administrator COMPANY Datalex INDUSTRY Ecommerce Platform for Airlines CHALLENGES • Web scrapers were hitting Datalex customers’ sites, luring away upsell and cross-sell opportunities, and increasing GDS API pull costs • Multiple daily attacks threatened to cause performance issues and downtime • Identifying and policing bad bot traffic with F5 Networks was burdensome and ineffective DEPLOYMENT Distil Appliance and Cloud CDN (based on each customer’s hosting preference) RESULTS • Forced advanced persistent bots to “throw in the towel” • Eliminated scrapers, mak