HeroSpark reduces fraud and attacks by 99.5% with the Azion Web Platform
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"Migrating to the Azion Platform was a pivotal decision for GPA. Leaving behind the constraints of a legacy provider, we achieved greater agility and resilience. Azion shielded us from sophisticated cyberattacks and empowered us to modernize our infrastructure, reduce costs, and deliver the best shopping experiences to millions of customers across Latin America." Allan Monteiro, CISO & Head of Technology at Grupo Pão de Açúcar (GPA) |
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Impact at Scale
- 99.5% fewer fraud and attack incidents;
- 200+ hours saved per month with the Security Response Team;
- 100% of the team focused on innovation, not incidents;
- 20% reduction in infrastructure costs;
- 30% improvement in content delivery speed.
Challenges
Before partnering with Azion, HeroSpark faced several challenges that limited its growth and compromised user experience:
- Heavy operational workload managing incidents and fraud, consuming hundreds of monthly hours from the tech team
- Need to scale infrastructure to support HeroPay, a resilient and scalable payment solution
- High storage and content delivery costs
- Slow content delivery for part of the user base
These barriers impacted operational efficiency and hindered the team’s focus on innovation.
Solution
To overcome these challenges, HeroSpark adopted the Azion Web Platform, combining automation, security, and performance in a single ecosystem:
- Security Response Team (SRT): Automated mitigation and protection against DDoS attacks and fraud, saving over 200 hours per month of manual work
- DDoS Protection: Real-time mitigation of volumetric attacks at both the network and application layers
- Web Application Firewall (WAF): Managed rules and custom policies to block cyberthreats such as the OWASP Top 10 and emerging vulnerabilities
- Bot Manager: Behavioral detection, fingerprinting, and rate limiting to block malicious bots
- TLS/SSL: Centralized certificate management with modern encryption protocols
- HTTP/3: Faster loading times and lower latency
- Observability and SIEM Integration: Real-time metrics and logs to accelerate detection and response to threats
With this modern, distributed architecture, HeroSpark achieved a more secure, stable, and scalable operation.
Results
- 200+ hours saved per month by automating fraud and attack detection and response through the Security Response Team (SRT);
- Uninterrupted operations during attack attempts, with no noticeable impact on end users;
- Fast implementation with specialized support from Azion’s SRT;
- Improved performance and efficiency, with 20% lower infrastructure costs and 30% faster content delivery;
- Proven resilience to scale HeroPay securely and with high performances.
Why Azion
Azion empowered HeroSpark to build, secure, and scale applications on a fully managed global infrastructure—without the complexity or high costs of traditional solutions.
With advanced protection, performance at scale, and a dedicated Security Response Team, HeroSpark gained operational peace of mind to innovate continuously while ensuring its applications remain fast, secure, and reliable everywhere.
Through proactive support and seamless integration, Azion has become a strategic partner committed to making every application fast, secure, and scalable, strengthening HeroSpark’s resilience and business success.
About HeroSpark
HeroSpark is a leading digital education platform that helps digital entrepreneurs and companies scale their online businesses. Its infrastructure supports thousands of customers who rely on it daily to deliver fast, secure, and reliable experiences, maintaining a strong focus on operational efficiency and user experience throughout its technological evolution.
In its latest project, HeroPay, HeroSpark expanded its mission by building a resilient and scalable payment infrastructure that not only improved customer experience but also significantly enhanced operational efficiency and reduced costs.