Security hardening & edge performance for Pulse Media
Stopped a sustained bot attack, hardened 40 servers and cut page weight by 70% for a publisher with 12M monthly readers.

- 4.2M/mo
- Malicious requests blocked
- 98/100
- Security score
- −70%
- Page weight
- 0 min
- Downtime
The challenge
A credential-stuffing and scraping campaign was taking Pulse Media's WordPress fleet offline during peak news cycles.
What we built
Edge WAF rules and bot management, CrowdSec on every origin, a hardened server baseline, Varnish full-page caching and an image CDN.
The results
4.2 million malicious requests are blocked every month, the security score sits at 98/100 and readers enjoy pages 70% lighter.

