WEDOS Protection | E-Commerce DDoS Protection & WAF

WEDOS Protection for E-Commerce

Keep the Store Open. Keep the Revenue Flowing.

Downtime Is Not an Inconvenience. It Is a Direct Revenue Loss.

Every minute your store is unreachable, orders are not placed. Every second your checkout page times out, customers abandon and go to a competitor. Every hour your site is under attack, your search rankings slip and your paid traffic spend is wasted.

DDoS attacks against e-commerce targets are not random. They are timed — against peak trading periods, product launches, Black Friday, seasonal campaigns — precisely because the commercial damage is maximised when your traffic is highest and your tolerance for disruption is lowest.

WEDOS Protection keeps your store online, your checkout processing, and your customers converting — regardless of what is hitting your infrastructure.

Store Protection Overview

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Risk & Revenue Impact

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What WEDOS Protection Does for Your Store

Stays online during attacks — automatically

Protection activates the moment anomalous traffic is detected. No manual intervention, no support ticket to raise, no waiting for a response. Your store continues operating while the attack is filtered at the network edge, before it reaches your servers.

Protects the full stack — not just the homepage

Attacks increasingly target checkout flows, payment APIs, product search endpoints, and login systems — not just the front page. WEDOS Protection covers your entire application surface, with per-endpoint rules that can be tuned to the specific traffic patterns of your store.

Blocks bots that damage your business

Credential stuffing against customer accounts. Competitor price scraping. Inventory hoarding by automated bots during limited releases. Fake account creation at scale. These are not DDoS attacks — but they are bot-driven threats that degrade your store’s performance and integrity. WEDOS’s AI-driven traffic analysis identifies and blocks malicious automated traffic while keeping legitimate shoppers moving freely.

Keeps your payment infrastructure intact

Payment processor integrations, 3DS redirect flows, and webhook endpoints are sensitive to latency and availability. WEDOS Protection’s low-latency anycast architecture ensures that the additional security layer does not introduce delays that break payment flows or trigger processor timeouts.

Absorbs traffic spikes — attack or legitimate

Flash sales, influencer-driven traffic surges, and viral product moments create the same infrastructure pressure as a volumetric attack. WEDOS Protection’s global anycast network distributes load automatically, keeping performance stable whether the traffic spike is malicious or the best problem you’ve ever had.

Business Impact — Direct and Measurable

Risk	Without WEDOS Protection	With WEDOS Protection
Attack during peak trading	Store offline, revenue lost	Attack filtered, store online
Bot-driven account abuse	Customer trust damaged	Automated threats blocked
Checkout API targeted	Payment failures, abandoned carts	Endpoint protected, conversion maintained
SEO & ad spend impact	Downtime penalises rankings	Uptime preserved, spend protected
GDPR incident from breach	Regulatory exposure	Attack surface reduced

Simple to Deploy. Zero Downtime to Activate.

Activation requires a single DNS record change — no hardware, no code changes, no store downtime. WEDOS engineers handle the full onboarding and initial configuration. Most stores are protected within hours of signing up.

For WooCommerce and WordPress-based stores, a native plugin is available for even faster setup.

EU Infrastructure. GDPR by Design.

Your customer data — browsing behaviour, account details, payment flows — passes through protection infrastructure that is entirely EU-owned and EU-operated.

No traffic routed through US-jurisdiction platforms. No foreign legal exposure. Full GDPR compliance built into the architecture, not bolted on afterwards.

Keep the Store Open. Keep the Revenue Flowing.

The Numbers Behind the Risk

Downtime is not an abstract threat. It has a price tag — and in e-commerce, that price is paid immediately, in lost orders and abandoned carts.

€185,000

Average total cost of a cyberattack on a European retailer, including IT recovery, lost sales, and reputational damage limitation (Bitkom, German Federal Association for Information Technology)

€135,000

Average sales revenue lost over just 48 hours of downtime for an e-commerce business (Bitkom)

$10,000 per minute

Estimated revenue loss for e-commerce sites during an active DDoS attack (industry average, 2024–2025)

$234,000

Average direct cost of a single DDoS incident in 2024, based on an average attack duration of 39 minutes (Zayo DDoS Insights Report 2024)

+70%

Spike in DDoS attacks against e-commerce providers on Black Friday compared to the rest of November

+109%

Spike on Cyber Monday compared to the November average

18%

Of all DDoS attacks globally target e-commerce and retail — and they are timed deliberately against peak trading periods (2024 industry data)

30 hours

Average downtime per retail site that unprotected stores faced during the holiday shopping season (Imperva, 2023)

The attacks are not random. They are timed against your highest-traffic days, your product launches,
your seasonal campaigns — because that is when the damage is greatest and the pressure to pay a ransom or simply give up is highest.

What WEDOS Protection Does for Your Store

Stays online during attacks — automatically

Protects the full stack — not just the homepage

Attacks increasingly target checkout flows, payment APIs, product search endpoints, and login systems — not just the front page. WEDOS Protection covers your entire application surface, with per-endpoint rules tuned to the specific traffic patterns of your store.

Blocks bots that damage your business

Credential stuffing against customer accounts. Competitor price scraping. Inventory hoarding by automated bots during limited releases. Fake account creation at scale. WEDOS’s AI-driven traffic analysis identifies and blocks malicious automated traffic while keeping legitimate shoppers moving freely.

Keeps your payment infrastructure intact

Payment processor integrations, 3DS redirect flows, and webhook endpoints are sensitive to latency and availability. WEDOS Protection’s low-latency anycast architecture ensures the security layer does not introduce delays that break payment flows or trigger processor timeouts.

Absorbs traffic spikes — attack or legitimate

Flash sales, influencer-driven surges, and viral product moments create the same infrastructure pressure as a volumetric attack. WEDOS Protection’s global anycast network distributes load automatically — whether the spike is malicious or the best problem you’ve ever had.

Business Impact — Direct and Measurable

Risk	Without WEDOS Protection	With WEDOS Protection
Attack during peak trading	Store offline, revenue lost	Attack filtered, store online
Black Friday / Cyber Monday	70–109% attack spike hits hardest	Surge absorbed automatically
Bot-driven account abuse	Customer trust damaged	Automated threats blocked
Checkout API targeted	Payment failures, abandoned carts	Endpoint protected, conversion maintained
48h downtime event	~€135,000 average sales loss	Downtime prevented
Post-attack reputation damage	PR campaign costs ~€18,500	Incident never goes public

Simple to Deploy. Zero Downtime to Activate.

Activation requires a single DNS record change — no hardware, no code changes, no store downtime. WEDOS engineers handle full onboarding and initial configuration.

Most stores are protected within hours of signing up. A native WordPress/WooCommerce plugin is available for even faster setup.

EU Infrastructure. GDPR by Design.

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