Pappas Automobil Deploys Radware Solutions to Provide Secure and Profitable Business Continuity
Company Size
1,000+
Region
- Europe
Country
- Austria
Product
- Radware’s DefensePro
Tech Stack
- Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)
- DoS protection device
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Cost Savings
- Customer Satisfaction
Technology Category
- Cybersecurity & Privacy - Network Security
Applicable Industries
- Automotive
Applicable Functions
- Business Operation
- Sales & Marketing
Use Cases
- Cybersecurity
Services
- System Integration
About The Customer
Pappas Automobil is one of the largest car trading ventures in Central Europe, with 40 locations across Austria, Hungary and Bavaria. The company has been selling vehicles and providing garage services for the past 60 years, with a special focus on distributing Mercedes-Benz in Austria. Today, Pappas Automobil AG has modernized its selling methods, with an online catalog, for ordering cars, trucks and spare parts, that is used 27 Austrian branches. The company is responsible for protecting a large amount of sensitive and confidential data, it uses SSL encryption.
The Challenge
Pappas Automobil AG, Austria's largest Mercedes distributor and a nation-wide operator of service garages, had an online ordering system that enabled its many branches to order cars and parts. However, the company faced challenges in providing secure, high-throughput real-time intrusion prevention and DoS protection to guarantee continued high availability and secure service provision. The company's initial firewall protection was unable to provide the required security. The company’s network traffic needed to be protected from worms, viruses, and DoS/DDoS attacks, including SYN floods, while ensuring prompt response times and delivery of business critical applications. Continuous disruptions to the network were causing large losses as branches were unable to place orders for spare parts or locate a suitable repair destination – leading to unhappy customers and lower revenues.
The Solution
Pappas Automobil selected Radware’s DefensePro, part of the APSolute suite, for its network in order to secure its ordering system. DefensePro is a real-time Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) and DoS protection device that protects the application infrastructure against known attacks and emerging zero-minute and non-vulnerability network attacks to ensure service availability even when under network attack. Once detected, DefensePro immediately differentiates between malicious and legitimate network activity without requiring human intervention. A real-time signature is created automatically to mitigate an attack while allowing approved traffic to continue as normal.
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