Visma Enterprise: Protecting Critical Education Infrastructure
A case study of Cloudflare
- Client
- Visma Enterprise
- Industry
- Software / Education
- Region
- Finland
- Duration
- 4 days
- Team and scope
- The Wilma platform used by the entire Finnish school system
Client website: visma.fi
Visma Enterprise deployed Cloudflare Magic Transit to mitigate a massive DDoS attack on Finland's national school platform, restoring services within one hour.
The challenge
The disruption threatened critical school communications, student documentation access, and the company's ability to fulfill service level agreements with its customers.
The solution
Visma Enterprise implemented Cloudflare Magic Transit to provide DDoS protection for its network infrastructure. The deployment moved the Wilma platform behind Cloudflare's protection to mitigate ongoing and future attacks at the network layer. Timeline: The project began over a weekend, followed by fine-tuning on Monday and full activation on Tuesday morning.
The results
All solutions returned online within one hour of activating the new protection. The implementation successfully filtered out malicious traffic, which reduced the load on servers and enabled pages to load more quickly for users. Personnel were freed from fighting attacks to focus on other security threats and corporate IT management.
In numbers
- customers served in Finland
- 1100+
- active users per month on Wilma platform
- 1 million
- time to restore services after activation
- 1 hour
Products and services used
- Magic Transit
Technologies
- Wilma
- Apache Iceberg
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