Considering the introduction of WAF in line with the launch of a comprehensive EC site

The Seven & i Group operates approximately 22,500 stores in Japan, including convenience stores, supermarkets, department stores, and specialty stores, and also develops a wide range of other businesses, including financial services. Seven & i Net Media Co.,Ltd., a member of the group, supports the group's digital strategy under the management vision of "creating new value with IT and design and enriching people's lives with technology and wisdom." There is a company Specific businesses include "system planning" that handles web development work for group companies, including the general EC site "Omni 7", "system development" that develops EC systems and mobile systems, and their "system development". The four pillars are "operation and maintenance" and "design production and operation" such as the group's website and application.

With the launch of Omni 7 in 2014, the company decided to consider introducing a new WAF (Web Application Firewall) with the aim of strengthening the security of its web system. Regarding the background, Kenji Takeuchi, senior expert and infrastructure team manager of the Operation Planning Department, Digital Systems Headquarters, said, "Because it takes a huge amount of man-hours to thoroughly implement measures in the application layer, we used to try to cover it with measures in the infrastructure layer. However, with the launch of Omni 7, which has multiple online stores such as Akachan AKACHAN HONPO CO., LTD. and Loft, we thought that a more robust security environment was necessary, so we decided to take measures at the upper network layer.” do.

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Seven & i Net Media Co.,Ltd. had previously introduced a WAF from another company, but this productI gave up on applying it to Omni 7 because I had a hard time with it. In addition, the agent-type product that we examined separatelyIt is said that it was not an option because the load on the server was large and additional hardware had to be considered. The final choice was Imperva's on-premise WAF.

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