Melbourne Airport Strengthens DDoS Protections with Cloudflare

Melbourne Airport Strengthens DDoS Protections with Cloudflare

Melbourne Airport has announced it has beefed up its cyber security with updates to DDoS protections and more.

As part of the measures, the airport shifted its network perimeter to the edge of Cloudflare’s global network and adopted its web application firewall (WAF) to protect its public network and IT systems from distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. ).

“The entire airport is a broad technology ecosystem that supports a broad mix of operational and business systems. “I cannot underestimate its complexity,” said Melbourne Airport chief information officer Anthony Tomai.

As Tomai noted, maintaining Melbourne Airport’s cybersecurity is a serious task, as its 25 million customers and 40 airline partners rely on the airport to provide a wide range of IT-supported services.

To deliver cybersecurity best practices, Cloudflare partnered with Melbourne Airport after the cybersecurity organization assessed the airport’s WAF. In addition, the visibility of Melbourne Airport’s network was strengthened, allowing it to more easily modify its protection policies.

According to incident response manager Evan Thomson, the airport “quickly strengthened our protections for our publicly accessible assets,” allowing it to protect its “externally exposed URLs and restrict problematic traffic from inappropriate international sources.”

Following this, Melbourne Airport said it was advised to invest in better DDoS protection measures, prompting the move of its network perimeter to the edge of Cloudflare’s global network.

This was achieved using Cloudflare’s Magic Transit solution, in just 36 hours.