The challenge
Vision Bank UAE, a regulated financial institution in the UAE, needed to modernise its web application security and performance infrastructure. As a bank supervised by the Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE), every deployment decision had to balance security, compliance, and operational continuity.
The engagement required a structured approach: from security assessment through solution design, deployment, testing, and knowledge transfer, all within the governance constraints of a regulated banking environment.
What Brixio deployed
Security assessment and onboarding planning
- Comprehensive assessment covering architecture, security policy, performance, and operational posture.
- Risk assessment and high-level onboarding roadmap.
- Requirements review and identification of critical use cases.
- Solution design aligned to banking-specific security requirements.
Deployment and integration
- DNS onboarding and SSL/TLS configuration.
- WAF deployment with managed and custom security policies.
- DDoS protection for web-facing banking applications.
- CDN configuration for performance and availability.
Operational readiness
- Administrator roles and responsibilities defined.
- Monitoring and logging integration (SIEM-ready).
- Functional testing and UAT support.
- Post-implementation knowledge transfer to the bank's security team.
Architecture
Customer, mobile and partner traffic converges on Cloudflare's edge before reaching the bank's web-facing applications, with security telemetry flowing into the SIEM.
Results
After a structured six-week onboarding, Vision Bank's web-facing applications run behind Cloudflare with full WAF and DDoS coverage, SIEM-integrated telemetry and a security team able to operate the platform.
