Capsule Corporation

F5 Distributed Cloud Design Challenge

Company Overview

Capsule Corp, founded by Dr. Brief and led by CTO Bulma Brief, is the Earth's leading technology conglomerate. The company serves customers worldwide through Hoi-Poi Capsule technology, vehicle manufacturing, and consumer electronics.

Annual Revenue
Ƶ4.2T
Global Customers
890M
Countries
156
Daily Active Users
12M

Current Infrastructure

West City HQ

On-Premises Data Center

  • Core Hoi-Poi Capsule manufacturing systems
  • Inventory management (2.3M SKUs)
  • R&D laboratories and prototype systems
  • Employee and facility management
  • 45,000 capsule production events/min at peak

Frieza Force Cloud

Galactic Region: Earth-North

  • Customer-facing e-commerce (Ƶ890B annual)
  • Dragon Radar API (2.4M queries/day)
  • Mobile app frontend and backend
  • Gravity Chamber control plane (87 units)
  • Vehicle tracking (340K capsule vehicles)
  • Payment processing (PCI-DSS scope)

Critical Challenges

Critical

DDoS & OWASP Attacks

Red Ribbon Army cyber-collective launched coordinated Layer 7 attacks during Capsule Car Model X launch. Peak: 847,000 req/sec.

4 hrs Downtime
Ƶ215B Total Loss
High

Performance Issues

Dragon Radar API latency varies wildly by region. Artifact hunters filing thousands of support tickets.

80ms Japan
950ms S. America
High

Fragmented Security

Cloud and on-premises environments run different WAF tooling. No unified policy enforcement across the hybrid infrastructure.

2 WAF Platforms
23 hrs/wk Alert Reconciliation
Medium

Compliance Gaps

PCI-DSS audit identified critical vulnerabilities in payment processing APIs.

14 Critical Vulns
6 Unvalidated Endpoints

Recent Incidents

November

Credential Stuffing Attack

Automated attack using 2.3M leaked credentials targeted customer portal. 847 accounts compromised, exposing capsule purchase history. Attackers used residential proxies to evade IP blocking.

2.3M credentials tested 847 accounts breached
December

SQL Injection Campaign

Gravity chamber control API targeted with sophisticated injection attempts using encoding tricks to bypass WAF. Emergency audit triggered for all R&D systems.

12 blocked 3 successful bypasses
January

Launch Day Overload

Mobile app API gateway buckled during Capsule Car announcement. Traffic spiked 340% above projections in first 90 seconds. Social media backlash trended globally.

340% traffic spike 30% request failures for 47 min

Design Objectives

Design an F5 Distributed Cloud solution for Capsule Corporation addressing the following areas:

01

Hybrid Cloud Architecture

Use F5 XC to unify security and connectivity across Frieza Force Cloud and the West City on-premises data center. Enable secure east/west communication between manufacturing systems and cloud services.

02

API Security

Protect the Dragon Radar API (high-volume, global) and e-commerce payment APIs (PCI-DSS scope) using F5 XC services.

03

DDoS, WAF & Bot Protection

Defend against sophisticated Layer 7 attacks targeting product launches. Address the credential stuffing challenge using residential proxies.

04

Performance Optimization

Reduce Dragon Radar API latency for European users from 950ms to under 150ms. Handle 340%+ traffic spikes during product announcements.

05

Unified Management

Provide Bulma's security team centralized visibility and policy control, eliminating the 23 hours/week spent reconciling alerts across platforms.