Company
FanDuel Group is an innovative sports-tech entertainment company that is changing the way consumers engage with their favorite sports, teams and leagues. FanDuel Group’s portfolio includes products for sports betting, casino, daily fantasy sports and horse racing. The premier gaming destination in the United States, the company has more than 12 million customers and a sports betting presence in 50 states.
“We seamlessly integrated Application Protection at our platform edge [AWS CloudFront] to ensure maximum protection against automated bot attacks, but also to minimize latency. By using AWS CloudFront in conjunction with an edge Lambda function, it was simple to integrate and leverage Credential Intelligence.”
– Senior Director, Architecture, FanDuel
Challenge
FanDuel experienced unprecedented growth in 2018 following a US Supreme Court ruling that allowed wagers on professional sporting events in the US. As the company’s popularity and product portfolio grew, it became a large target for account takeover (ATO) attacks and experienced up to 10 million malicious login attempts per day. FanDuel originally explored a homegrown bot management tool, but ultimately pivoted to consider vendor offerings instead.
Solution
FanDuel implemented HUMAN Application Protection because of its ability to protect against the volume of attacks its platform had to endure. In addition, HUMAN delivered the following benefits that allowed FanDuel to mitigate ATO attacks without sacrificing their users’ online experience:
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- Accurate bot protection based on behavioral analytics, advanced machine learning techniques and predictive models that blocks a wide range of automated attacks.
- Custom parameters allowed FanDuel to store specific data points, which was a key differentiator for the company.
- Seamless integration with AWS CloudFront allowed FanDuel to integrate HUMAN via an edge Lambda function, preserving page load performance and ensuring low latency.
- Improved efficiency and optimized the use of FanDuel’s internal security resources and infrastructure costs.
- Helpful customer support available 24/7/365 via Slack, email or phone.
In addition, FanDuel was impressed with HUMAN’s innovative product portfolio. They were particularly interested in our ability to flag and stop logins with compromised credentials in real time. Part of Account Takeover Defense, this capability proactively mitigates credential stuffing attacks and allows FanDuel to get ahead of account fraud.
