Cloudflare Authorised Service Delivery Partner (ASDP)
Putting Cloudflare in front of your applications takes a few clicks. Operating it, tuning WAF rules continuously, documenting compliance, and responding to threats 24/7 takes rare expertise. Brixio takes full ownership of your application security lifecycle, with a team of 25+ certified engineers.
The gap between buying a licence and actually securing an application is one of the single greatest risks in modern infrastructure. During our audits, we consistently find three governance blind spots. None of them raises an alert: nothing is blocked, so nothing flags.
To avoid false positives, the WAF is often left observing: it logs attacks, it blocks nothing. Moving it to enforcement means tuning the managed rulesets, writing the exceptions the application needs, and switching over gradually, not flipping a single switch.
Endpoints ship to production with no declared schema, leaving APIs exposed to business-logic bypasses the WAF does not see. API Shield covers those cases, but it is a separate configuration, often forgotten on the day the API goes live.
Third-party scripts, such as payment gateways, run in your customers' browsers, beyond the reach of traditional firewalls. Page Shield catches a Magecart-style attack, provided it is enabled and its alerts are followed up.
Cloudflare, a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Web Application Firewall Solutions (Q1 2025), provides the technical capability. Brixio turns it into an operated security outcome: you buy the capability, we deliver the result.
Cloudflare's native coverage is broad and solid: for the vast majority of needs, everything is handled through configuration. But every organisation has its own context, and a very specific risk can slip past the standard settings. With Brixio, it does not go unanswered: we develop bespoke protection directly on Cloudflare Workers.
Custom block pages, bot challenges tuned to a specific traffic pattern, controls triggered by your application's own logic. At an airline, the web channel was fully covered by the WAF, Turnstile and Bot Management; attackers moved to the mobile app's API, where a CAPTCHA cannot run. Brixio built a Bot Shield on Workers, tuned to the mobile booking funnel, with zero false positives before switching to enforcement.
Application security on Cloudflare protects inbound traffic to public-facing applications and APIs, operated as managed web application and API protection (WAAP). Securing your users' outbound access to the internet and to SaaS is a separate discipline, covered by our SASE and Zero Trust practice.
THE PROOF
Case study: A UAE-regulated digital asset exchange
A high-frequency trading platform needed application security that adds no latency. WAF, API Shield, rate limiting and DDoS protection, tuned per endpoint, with zero impact on legitimate trading.
United Arab Emirates · trading platform + APIs
Read the full case studyCase study: A Gulf-based digital-asset fintech
A Gulf digital-asset fintech secured its regulated tokenisation platform while shaving 20-30% off load times, with WAF, DDoS protection, bot management and CDN optimisation.
Gulf · tokenisation platform + APIs
Read the full case studyCase study: A UAE ports and logistics authority
A UAE ports and logistics authority standardised application security across ports, customs and free-zone operations, with a staged log-first rollout and SIEM integration.
United Arab Emirates · public-facing digital properties
Read the full case studyCase study: A KSA leisure & entertainment destination developer
A KSA leisure and entertainment developer migrated 80+ hostnames from Google WAF to Cloudflare with zero downtime and full KSA data residency, plus 35% faster page loads.
Saudi Arabia · 5 TLDs, 80+ hostnames
Read the full case studyCase study: A mid-size international airline
The airline's web channel was fully covered, so attackers pivoted to the mobile-app API, where a CAPTCHA cannot run. Brixio built a Bot Shield on Workers, tuned to the booking funnel, with zero false positives.
Anonymised · mobile-app channel only
Read the full case studyFor a regulated entity, a poorly configured or undocumented WAF is a compliance failure. A WAF is a named requirement in several frameworks, and a deployment that is technically sound can still fail an audit if the configuration is not mapped to the obligation and documented. Brixio translates your Cloudflare configurations into auditable evidence, mapped to each framework, across Europe and the Gulf.
Any entity handling cardholder data
Public-facing web applications protected by a WAF (requirement 6.4.x); client-side script controls (6.4.3 and 11.6.1)
CloudflareWAF in blocking mode + Page Shield for client-side monitoring; configuration documented for the assessor
EU financial entities
ICT resilience, protection and testing of critical applications and APIs, third-party risk
CloudflareWAF + API Shield + DDoS protection + complete logging
EU essential and important entities
Risk management, protection of exposed services, incident handling
CloudflareFull application security stack + alerting
Application security baseline
Coverage of injection, broken access control, and the recognised application risk categories
CloudflareWAF managed rulesets aligned to OWASP, plus custom rules
Gulf critical entities, public and private sector
Protection of exposed services, logging, monitoring of application traffic
CloudflareWAF + DDoS + API Shield; logs exported to a local SIEM
KSA public and private sector
Protection of exposed services, monitoring of application traffic
CloudflareWAF + DDoS + API Shield; local SIEM export
Personal data in the Gulf and EU
Residency of data and WAF logs, control of where traffic is inspected
CloudflareCloudflare Regional Services: inspection and log storage in the chosen region
The WAF is a control auditors check. Brixio configures it in blocking mode, enables Page Shield for client-side monitoring, and documents each decision as evidence, across Europe and the Gulf.
Our method guarantees a switch with no service interruption, whether you are consolidating legacy tools onto Cloudflare or starting from scratch.
Applications, API flows, subdomains, blind spots in the current configuration. A real audit run by our engineers.
→ A current-state map and a prioritised remediation plan.
Target rules modelled in detection mode first to isolate legitimate traffic, each tied to its obligation (PCI DSS first).
→ Every control mapped to the framework it satisfies.
Translation and transfer of your existing policies (Akamai, Imperva, F5, AWS WAF) to Cloudflare.
→ Incumbent rulesets mirrored, then cut over with no downtime.
Progressive enforcement, validated in real time by our engineers, with no service interruption.
→ Protection turns on without breaking legitimate traffic.
24/7 monitoring, ongoing tuning through every application release, incidents handled by Brixio (P1 included), escalation to Cloudflare engineering when only the vendor can fix it.
→ One operator, from mapping to operation.
One operator across the whole lifecycle, with no handover between phases. Brixio is one of the leading Cloudflare ASDPs in EMEA, ISO 27001:2022 certified, with 400+ security projects and 100+ active clients.
We reason in threat models first, configuration second. Cloudflare is our ground, not our pitch.
No generalist integration: we master Cloudflare down to the code (Workers).
Engineers in Europe and the GCC handle your incidents around the clock, P1 included, no handovers, no queue.
We absorb alert fatigue and false-positive maintenance; your teams stay on the product.
From Akamai, Imperva, F5 or AWS WAF for example, with no interruption of protection.
Documented, traceable processes, ISO 27001:2022 certified, Cloudflare ASDP status.
It is a fully outsourced model where Brixio acts as your engineering arm: deployment, continuous tuning, incident response and audit readiness for your Cloudflare WAAP stack (WAF, DDoS, Bot Management, API Shield, Page Shield). Your internal teams stay focused on the product. Brixio runs it exclusively on Cloudflare.
A Web Application Firewall (WAF) filters malicious HTTP requests to a web application. WAAP (Web Application and API Protection) is the broader category that adds API protection, bot management, and DDoS mitigation around the WAF. Cloudflare delivers a full WAAP stack: WAF, API Shield, Bot Management, and DDoS protection on the same edge. Brixio configures and operates the complete set, not the WAF alone.
A content delivery network (CDN) improves performance and absorbs some volumetric load, but it is not, by itself, application security. Blocking the OWASP Top 10, validating API schemas, and stopping malicious bots require the WAF, API Shield, and Bot Management to be configured and tuned. On Cloudflare, performance and security run on the same edge, but they are distinct capabilities that each need operating. Brixio configures both.
By tuning before enforcing. Brixio enables the managed rulesets in detection mode, analyses the matches against real traffic over a representative period, writes exceptions for the application's legitimate patterns, then moves to blocking mode ruleset by ruleset. False-positive review continues as part of the managed run, because the application keeps changing. This is how a WAF stays in blocking mode rather than reverting to log-only.
Yes, in practice. PCI DSS requires public-facing web applications to be protected against known attacks, which is satisfied by a Web Application Firewall (requirement 6.4.x), and recent versions add client-side script controls (requirements 6.4.3 and 11.6.1) that Page Shield addresses. Brixio configures the Cloudflare WAF and Page Shield to meet these controls and documents the configuration for the PCI assessor.
Cloudflare provides world-class technology, but a licence does not configure itself. A Cloudflare Authorised Service Delivery Partner (ASDP) guarantees the certified engineering headcount that turns that technology into measurable security, and gets priority handling from Cloudflare for what only the vendor can fix. Brixio is one of the leading ASDPs in the EMEA region, present across Europe and the Gulf.
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