Zero‑Trust at scale: hardening a streaming platform against modern threats
Executive summary
A rapidly growing subscription‑based streaming platform—specialised in curated, long‑form content for a passionate global audience—asked Babini Mazzari to strengthen its defences against escalating DDoS floods, credential‑stuffing botnets, and emerging zero‑day exploits. Any service interruption or data breach would erode subscriber trust and threaten recurring revenue. Over a three‑month engagement, our security and DevOps squads implemented a dual‑layer Web Application Firewall (WAF), real‑time incremental backups, geo‑replicated disaster recovery, microservice isolation, vulnerability‑gated CI/CD, and Zero‑Trust access controls—then rolled these into a continuous managed‑services cycle.
The result is a hardened architecture that delivers sub‑one‑hour RPO/RTO, zero unplanned downtime since launch, and a security spend that remains under 2 percent of annual revenue.
Business challenge
High‑visibility streaming sites face relentless automated probing. The client’s previous single‑layer perimeter and manual backup regimen could no longer support its growth trajectory or satisfy new board‑level risk appetites for uptime, GDPR compliance, and secure payment processing.
Objectives
Measurable security and availability for mission-critical infrastructure
Continuous availability | 99.95% uptime |
Rapid recovery | RPO ≤ 60 min, RTO ≤ 60 min |
Regulatory alignment | GDPR + PCI‑DSS tier 1 |
Cost efficiency | Security OpEx < 2% of revenue |
Solution overview
We adopted an agile, sprint‑based model: assess, design, roll out, test—then iterate at the first sign of new risk.
Outcomes
Hardened, compliant, and cost-effective: proof in metrics
Unplanned downtime from attacks | 0 minutes (first 6 months) |
Average incident‑response time | < 12 minutes |
Backup integrity tests | 100% pass rate |
Security spend vs revenue | 1.8% |
Adoption of Zero‑Trust MFA | 100% of administrators |
