Auto & General Southeast Asia ups site speed by 60% with Rackspace, Cloudflare

Insurance solution provider Auto & General Southeast Asia (SEA) has increased site speeds by 60%, optimised application performance, and enhanced security of its cloud infrastructure by deploying Rackspace Managed Services on Cloudflare.

Auto & General SEA is part of an international insurance group which provides insurance solutions for millions of policyholders across four continents. The Auto & General SEA brands include Budget Direct Insurance Singapore and EasyCompare Thailand.

The company needed a cost-effective solution and a collaborative managed services partner that would implement robust security measures to maintain PCI compliance*. In addition, the security solution needed to protect against cyberthreats and meet stringent insurance industry compliance regulations, without compromising site performance.

Auto & General SEA worked with multicloud technology solutions provider Rackspace Technology to deploy Rackspace Managed Services on Cloudflare to easily deploy the latest security features combatting evolving cyberthreats, meet security requirements, and move to a security solution seamlessly. The insurance provider deployed an edge security solution that included a web application firewall (WAF), distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection, domain name system (DNS) services, and a global content delivery network (CDN).

Source: Rackspace. Portrait of Sandeep Bhargava.
Source: Rackspace.
Bhargava.
“Website performance was optimised with CDN and DNS services that allowed dynamic content acceleration, static content caching, and image optimisation. For example, code minification** reduced the amount of code and markup on web pages and script files which in turn, reduced load times and bandwidth usage, and improved the overall end-user experience,” said Sandeep Bhargava, Senior VP and MD APJ for Rackspace Technology.

“In addition, real-time analysis is enabled through high-level access to dashboards, and malicious traffic is blocked before it reaches the web application, resulting in lower web server utilisation costs and reduced bandwidth consumption.”

“We have experienced improvements in our web and mobile site delivery with latency being reduced and increased our website page load time by 60% using Rackspace Managed Services on Cloudflare. This has helped keep customers on our site,” said Koji Yung, Infrastructure and Security Manager, Auto & General (SEA).

“We now have access to 24 x 7 x 365 support from certified cloud security experts who help with finetuning and changes to our infrastructure. Rackspace Technology helps to ensure the ever-growing online presence of Auto & General SEA is secured and optimised.”

Details:

Read more about the Rackspace Technology Auto & General SEA case study.

*PCI compliance helps to lower the risk of a data breach.

**Code minification reduces the amount of code used to increase performance and in turn improve user experience.

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