Finance Firm — 2026-Mar-06
Finance Firm
Harden a client website's edge web application firewall by layering a known-good probe-blocking ruleset over managed rules, while fixing search-engine crawler access.
- Deployed a custom rule set that verifies legitimate bots and SEO-critical files first, then blocks probes, scanners, and abusive crawlers
- Cut hundreds of malicious probe requests within hours — traffic that previously reached the origin
- Used edge observability to make attack traffic visible, then blocked common vulnerability probes before they reached the origin
- Tuned crawler rules so all verified search bots pass cleanly, with no impact on legitimate visitors