1 CASE STUDY Protecting a Social Trading Platform from DDoS Attacks How Incapsula protected eToro’s trading environment from recurring DDos attacks.Protecting a Social Trading Platform from DDoS Attacks 2 2 2 The Business & Technical Challenge As an online trading company, eToro operates in a complex environment: through the use of HTTP/HTTPS sites, Flash applications, and proprietary API’s (both web-based and application-based), the company processes thousands of transactions every minute. eToro’s trading infrastructure is a highly available and redundant environment built to sustain failure and ensure system uptime for all its users worldwide. In July 2012 the company experienced network DDoS attacks that were causing repetitive availability issues on the trading systems. The com

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