Online clothing retailer N Brown chooses website protection from Imperva

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Imperva, Inc., committed to protecting business-critical data and applications in the cloud and on-premises, today announced that fashion retailer N Brown Group plc is using the Imperva Incapsula service to protect its online business.

N Brown deployed the Incapsula service across all its customer-facing web services to ensure protection from business crippling DDoS attacks as well as to protect against other malicious web application attacks with the service's Web Application Firewall (WAF).

With £866m per year turnover, N Brown is a target for cyber criminals looking to disrupt business and steal data. After analysing the cyber threat landscape, the company was looking to further strengthen its security posture as it migrated a number of its websites to a new hosting partner.

Imperva provided N Brown with a live proof of concept service to complete its evaluation. "Within a few hours of evaluating the service, we noticed the Imperva Incapsula technology was superior to the other products under evaluation, and that made Imperva an early frontrunner," said Richard Jones, head of IT security and risk at N Brown. "The ability to include WAF and CDN further differentiated Imperva from other solutions we considered. Implementing the Incapsula service was surprisingly easy, and it only took a few days to get all 36 websites up and protected."

Imperva Incapsula is a cloud-based application delivery service that makes websites safer, faster and more reliable. Using the service, organisations of any size can protect their businesses with enterprise-grade web application security, DDoS mitigation, performance optimization and load balancing.

N Brown Group

N Brown Group plc is a multi-channel, specialist fit, fashion retailer offering customers an extensive range of products in clothing, footwear and homewares. The Group has 140 years of experience in home shopping and is focused on its core mantra of 'Fashion that Fits.' The Group is transforming from being direct mail-led to digital-first, and two-thirds of revenues now come online. Its portfolio of trusted retail brands - including its three Power Brands; JD Williams, Simply Be and Jacamo – all serve a specific niche consumer group which have historically been poorly served on the high street. Other brands include Fashion World, Marisota, House of Bath, Figleaves and High & Mighty.

N Brown is headquartered in Manchester where it designs, sources and creates its product offer, and employs over 2,600 people across the UK.