November peak season

Is your edge ready for November’s peaks?

Rules tuned for an ordinary Tuesday see a sudden surge and start blocking. Everything above the line is legitimate traffic at risk.

Let’s talk See the peak dates
Static WAF limit 403 Singles’ DayBlack FridayCyber Monday Nov 1Nov 8Nov 15Nov 22Nov 29

Illustrative traffic pattern.

Three peaks, one month

Your WAF doesn’t know it’s Black Friday.

Peak shopping traffic looks a lot like an attack. Static rules block real buyers at checkout, while bots blend into the rush. Huskeys tunes your existing WAF for the busiest days of the year.

Let’s talk See what breaks at peak
What breaks at peak

Three ways a static WAF costs you on your biggest weekend.

Real buyers get blocked

Generic managed rules misfire under load. At a global entertainment brand, a SQL-injection rule tripped on third-party tracking cookies and kept campaign visitors off the checkout.

Bots hide in the rush

Scalpers and scrapers mimic real browsers. With millions of requests a minute, static rules can’t tell them apart from shoppers.

Costs spike with traffic

Expensive bot and account-protection inspections run on every request, including the ones that never needed them.

Proof at scale

Teams that tuned before the rush.

80%+
Fewer false positives
Merlin Entertainments · booking and checkout flows
200M+
Malicious requests blocked
TikTok · during peak attack events
$200K+
Monthly costs prevented
Hugging Face · potential volumetric abuse costs
“It integrates seamlessly without requiring architecture overhauls, agents, or lengthy configurations, often up and running in hours, not weeks.”
Built for your stack

Works on top of your existing stack. No rip & replace.

Read-only access. No performance latency. Ready before peak week.

Seamlessly integrate with your existing provider

Cloudflare, Akamai, F5, Imperva, Fastly, AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure
Without vs. with Huskeys

Same Black Friday traffic. Very different revenue.

Drag the handle to see where the money goes when your WAF blocks real buyers, and when it doesn’t.

Without HuskeysBlack Friday · 09:14
Shopper/checkout403 Blocked
Bot/login200 Let through
Shopper/cart?utm=bf403 Blocked
Scraper/api/prices200 Let through
Shopper/payment403 Blocked
Bot/gift-cards200 Let through
Shopper/checkout403 Blocked
Bot/login200 Let through
Shopper/cart?utm=bf403 Blocked
Scraper/api/prices200 Let through
Shopper/payment403 Blocked
Bot/gift-cards200 Let through
Revenue lost to blocked checkouts−$48,215
False positivesReal buyers blocked
Legit traffic reaching checkoutLeaking at the edge
Bot traffic let throughScalpers & scrapers in
With HuskeysBlack Friday · 09:14
Shopper/checkout200 Order placed
Bot/loginBlocked early
Shopper/cart?utm=bf200 Added to cart
Scraper/api/pricesBlocked early
Shopper/payment200 Paid
Bot/gift-cardsBlocked early
Shopper/checkout200 Order placed
Bot/loginBlocked early
Shopper/cart?utm=bf200 Added to cart
Scraper/api/pricesBlocked early
Shopper/payment200 Paid
Bot/gift-cardsBlocked early
Revenue protected at checkout+$48,215
False positives80%+ fewer
Legit traffic reaching checkoutNearly all of it
Bot traffic let throughStopped early

Illustrative example.

Questions & answers

Frequently asked questions

Everything you need to know before peak season.

What does Huskeys do?

Huskeys is an AI-powered control plane that sits on top of your existing WAF and CDN. It shows how your rules behave on real traffic, finds the ones blocking real customers or letting abuse through, and turns fixes into validated, production-ready changes.

Does Huskeys replace our existing WAF?

No. Huskeys works with the WAF and CDN you already run. You keep your vendors and your investment, and get more out of them.

Is there still time before Black Friday?

Yes. Onboarding uses read-only access with no agents and no architecture changes, so teams are often up and running in hours, not weeks. The earlier you connect, the more traffic you have to tune against before the peaks.

Will it slow down our site during peak traffic?

No. Huskeys reads configuration and logs and does not sit in the request path, so it adds no latency to your traffic.