Namely's Innovative Security Partnership with Fastly for Enhanced Web Defense
Technology Category
- Cybersecurity & Privacy - Intrusion Detection
- Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Application Development Platforms
Applicable Industries
- Buildings
- National Security & Defense
Use Cases
- Tamper Detection
- Time Sensitive Networking
The Customer
Namely
About The Customer
Namely is a leading HR platform that provides HR professionals with the technology, data, and support they need to help their employees and business thrive. The platform is designed to save time, avoid costly errors, and build a winning company culture. As a cloud-first, all-in-one HR platform, Namely is experiencing rapid growth and expanding its customer base. This growth has led to an increased responsibility in managing web defenses, including detection, prevention, and response. The company operates in a fast-moving agile development environment and prioritizes innovative security solutions.
The Challenge
Namely, a cloud-first, all-in-one HR platform, was experiencing rapid growth, which necessitated the prioritization of its web defense. As the customer base of Namely expanded, so did its responsibility of managing web defenses, including detection, prevention, and response. In a fast-paced agile development environment, security leader Daniel Leslie was tasked with building security and IT from scratch. He was seeking innovative ways to manage website defenses, having had experience with legacy Web Application Firewalls (WAFs). His core criteria for a solution included technical alignment, ease-of-use, best-in-class security functionality, and total cost of ownership (TCO). The challenge was to find a solution that could provide 'finished data' rather than raw log data, enabling faster, more accurate, and actionable insights.
The Solution
Namely chose to partner with Fastly as a component within their security architecture due to its better usability for security operation tasks, technical alignment with deployment updates and maintenance, and lower TCO. Fastly’s Next-Gen WAF was easy to install and onboard new personnel due to its ease of use and visibility of automated, intelligent blocking decisions. It provided real-time visibility around how their web applications were being attacked, addressing an issue many enterprises struggle with. Fastly’s intelligent Cloud Engine created events after seeing enough malicious requests to confirm an actual attack, reducing 'alarm fatigue' and enabling faster response times. In one instance, Fastly’s Next-Gen WAF alerted Namely teams to a non-security related engineering issue in the code, demonstrating its versatility. Fastly also enhanced the capacity of the Security and DevOps Teams at Namely, providing immediate blocking and actionable intelligence to dig deeper into potential threats.
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