Plus500 is a market-leading provider of Contracts for Difference (CFDs), delivering top of the range trading conditions on shares, forex, commodities and indices alongside innovative trading technology. The company is headquartered in Israel and has subsidiaries in the UK, Cyprus, Australia, Singapore and Bulgaria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Plus500 is a market-leading provider of Contracts for Difference (CFDs), delivering top of the range trading conditions on shares, forex, commodities and indices alongside innovative trading technology. The company is headquartered in Israel and has subsidiaries in the UK, Cyprus, Australia, Singapore and Bulgaria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17082,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","seo_title":"Plus500 | Rackspace Technology","seo_description":"Plus500 protects millions of online trades with a compliant multicloud solution","banner_text":"This financial trading technology provider integrated Google Cloud with VMware Private Cloud to meet security, performance and customer experience demands.","banner_image":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/case_study_images\/plus500\/Interior-Page-Banner-Template_1920x920_6.jpg","banner_cta_link":"","header":"Plus500 protects millions of online trades with a compliant multicloud solution","customer_overview":"Our customer","challenge":"Rackspace Technology has managed the Plus500 private cloud environment for more than 10 years and helped Plus500 transition to multicloud with Google Cloud Platform. The flexibility and scalability of this environment ensures that its trading platform can facilitate more than three million trades every month \u2014 more than one per second. Rackspace Managed Security services help Plus500 navigate comp","outcome":"","mian_quote":"
We have to be agile and constantly looking to adapt and enhance what we are doing, which is why a partner like Rackspace Technology has been so invaluable.
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Round-the-clock support from Rackspace Technology has allowed us to operate a more sustainable model. Its team is an extension of our own and gives us the confidence to continue to scale internationally<\/p>\r\n","second_quote_attribution_name":"Idan Mashaal","second_quote_attribution_title":"Director of Cybersecurity","second_quote_attribution_company":"Plus500","second_quote_attribution_image":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/case_study_images\/plus500\/Quote-Background_1920x920b_2.jpg","tertiary_quote":"
Plus500 has a secure, compliant multicloud solution that facilitate more than three million trades every month for its continually growing active user base.<\/p>\r\n","tertiary_quote_attribution_name":"","tertiary_quote_attribution_title":"","tertiary_quote_attribution_company":"","tertiary_quote_image":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/case_study_images\/plus500\/Quote-Background_1920x920a_0.jpg","text_river_1_headline":"A purely online operation","text_river_1_text":"
2020 was a tumultuous year for global financial systems. COVID-19 and changing economic conditions have caused international upheaval in financial trading and volatile stocks.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
In the first quarter of the year, volumes of trades experienced a major boost and activity in the stock market skyrocketed. Since then, there\u2019s been increasing unpredictability.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Plus500, an online trading company, is fully immersed in these market fluctuations and had to scale quickly to match consumer needs and behavior.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\u201cEverything Plus500 does is online,\u201d explained Ari Shotland, Chief Technology Officer at Plus500. \u201cI do not just mean the back end, I mean our entire operation \u2014 we are an online trading platform, so all of our users need to be able to access our website and app at all times.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\u201cFor this reason, reliability has been the most important thing \u2014 if we are offline for even five minutes, people can miss trades and lose money, and obviously we are strictly regulated as a result.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\u201cRackspace Technology\u00ae offers us the support and reassurance that we need.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n
While the pandemic has accelerated certain requirements, Plus500 has always been forward-thinking in its online-first and cloud-based approach to operations. The company was founded in 2008 in Israel and appointed Rackspace Technology as its managed service provider soon after launch. Rackspace Technology has seen the complexity of Plus500\u2019s technology needs evolve.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
The company initially ran on Windows Operating System before launching a web-based version of the platform in 2010, and its first apps for smartphones and tablets in 2011 and 2012 respectively.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\u201cTechnology is at the heart of what we do,\u201d said Shotland. \u201cWe are always looking to improve our users\u2019 experience and to innovate through technology. Being based online and given how quickly things change in the modern world, we have to be agile and constantly looking to adapt and enhance what we are doing, which is why a partner like Rackspace Technology has been so invaluable.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Plus500 has 200,000 active customers around the world who trade the equivalent of $1.3 trillion each year.<\/p>\r\n","text_river_1_image":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/case_study_images\/plus500\/Related-Stories_480x360_8.jpg","text_river_1_video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/mDPvLGpC1gU","text_river_2_headline":"A long-term partnership","text_river_2_text":"
Since Plus500\u2019s earliest days, Rackspace Technology has supported its evolution to becoming a global trading company with multiple platforms.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\u201cOur requirements were not always straightforward, out-of-the-box solutions,\u201d explained Idan Mashaal, Director of Cybersecurity at Plus500, who has been a central part of operations since 2009. \u201cOur data needs to be treated as a crown jewel. We have been innovative with how we have approached our platform and always challenge conventional thinking about how we build and view our offering, aided by the adaptability of Rackspace Technology.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\u201cResilience has always been essential to our solution,\u201d said Mashaal. \u201cWe have relied enormously on the support of and collaboration with Rackspace Technology \u2014 we never viewed it as an outsourced vendor relationship, we are all working together.\u201cRound-the-clock support from Rackspace Technology has allowed us to operate a more sustainable model. Its team is an extension of our own and gives us the confidence to continue to scale internationally.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Embracing public and multicloud<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n As Plus500\u2019s business has become increasingly global, its robust and bespoke VMware private cloud platform has continued to underpin its operations.<\/p>\r\n\r\n However, with expansion and international growth a key business priority, the need for greater scalability became apparent.<\/p>\r\n\r\n Public cloud was the clear solution and over the last couple of years, Rackspace Technology helped integrate Google Cloud Platform to make Plus500 a multicloud operator.<\/p>\r\n\r\n \u201cThe addition of Google Cloud is a very important one for us,\u201d said Shotland. \u201cHow to scale our system effectively was always at the forefront of our minds, and it was quickly clear that moving to multicloud would be the right thing for Plus500.<\/p>\r\n\r\n \u201cWe chose Google Cloud for a variety of reasons. It is primarily a data platform, which is what we needed, and in that regard, it is the best on the market and most suitable for our needs.<\/p>\r\n\r\n \u201cEven away from any expansion plans, public cloud offers us many benefits alongside our private cloud. The private cloud retains our stability and business continuity, while the inclusion of Google Cloud alongside that is about improving our overall performance.<\/p>\r\n\r\n The COVID-19 pandemic also added to Plus500\u2019s operational requirements, as lockdowns around the world drove even more activity online.<\/p>\r\n\r\n \u201cThere was immediately an increased load in online trading,\u201d said Shotland. \u201cWe had to add hardware, increasing our number of servers, but it already showed how important public cloud will be in this regard too and has accelerated our adoption of it. Its autoscaling is something that will only become more valuable to how we operate.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n \u201cAlready, it has increased our processing power and helped us to democratize our data and meet our business requirements \u2014 in such a demanding sector in this regard. This benefit cannot be overstated.\u201d<\/p>\r\n","text_river_2_image":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/case_study_images\/plus500\/Text-and-Video-Thumbnail-Image_600x338a.jpg","text_river_2_video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/lzgoWLqmWcw","text_river_3_headline":"Keeping everything secure","text_river_3_text":" The cybersecurity requirements of a data heavy <\/strong>and strictly regulated platform <\/strong>like Plus500\u2019s are considerable and <\/strong>constantly adapting.<\/p>\r\n\r\n As operations have expanded and grown more complex, the challenges of keeping everything online and operational have also changed.<\/p>\r\n\r\n \u201cWe see thousands of attacks every day,\u201d explained Mashaal. \u201cNot all of these are sophisticated, not many of them actually threaten us, but of course, these days there are constantly attempts on our network.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n In response to these threats, Plus500 deploys a suite of defenses with Rackspace Managed Security (RMS) at its core.<\/p>\r\n\r\n \u201cOur security is multi-layered,\u201d said Mashaal. \u201cThe Rackspace Technology part of our defenses is the last mile \u2014 the traffic it sees has already been scrubbed by firewalls and means that if something triggers and requires action from RMS, it is almost certainly real and malicious.<\/p>\r\n\r\n \u201cRMS is an essential and powerful line of defense \u2014 there is no need to bother it with minor issues, it is the serious threats that we cannot otherwise stop that we know we can rely on it for.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n This security integration dates back to 2018 and has continued to evolve since then.<\/p>\r\n\r\n \u201cWhen GDPR requirements launched, it was a good time for us to be early adopters of RMS,\u201d said Mashaal. \u201cIt helps me a lot with compliance and makes it easier and more accurate for our teams to run security.<\/p>\r\n\r\n \u201cWe have tailored it to our needs and refined it, reducing the number of false positives the team then hunts for \u2014 too many of them and you risk a \u2018boy who cried wolf\u2019 scenario of dismissing a real threat as one that looks similar to a previous false one.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n The transition to a multicloud environment has also brought new challenges to the cybersecurity requirements. Plus500 is now in the process of upgrading to the latest version of the RMS Proactive Detection and Response (PDR) offering, with increased security and management capabilities supported by the implementation of Armor and Crowdstrike tooling.<\/p>\r\n\r\n \u201cMulticloud adds a lot of complexities,\u201d said Mashaal. \u201cOur networks are all connected, which means you can go all the way from logging on to Google Cloud right through to our core servers. It\u2019s great, and how multicloud needs to work, but of course it adds to the vulnerability as you lose visibility of that journey and of who is doing what.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n \u201cA key next step for us is working with Rackspace Technology to improve this. This is where Armor, which is part of the new PDR offering, will help as it should catch everything \u2014 it enhances our existing security portfolio and will seamlessly run across Google Cloud and our own servers, but limit our vulnerability.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n The end goal is for Rackspace Technology to provide Plus500 with a single pane security offering across all of its operations, both public and private cloud, and make it as easy as possible to have total visibility across all environments.<\/p>\r\n\r\n Alongside these specifics, it is the expertise and the breadth of knowledge Rackspace Technology can bring that is the most valuable to Plus500 in its security operations.<\/p>\r\n\r\n \u201cSome organizations may consider building their own Security Operations Centre (SOC),\u201d explained Mashaal. \u201cIf you do it yourselves, you can only build it based on what you see yourselves \u2014 you don\u2019t get the shared knowledge of what other companies are seeing, what different kinds of threat there are. That therefore adds to the risk, and you cannot afford that. Cybersecurity is evolving all the time, you have to stay in front of it wherever possible. This is why we use the Rackspace Technology SOC.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n As Plus500 continues to expand globally, it can scale confidently with long-term partner Rackspace Technology managing its multicloud environment and providing strategic direction. Plus500 looks forward to building on the extensive capabilities of Google Cloud Platform and all new developments will be wrapped in Rackspace Technology security and compliance services.<\/p>\r\n","text_river_3_pull_quote":"","case_study_image":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/case_study_images\/plus500\/Text-and-Video-Thumbnail-Image_600x338a_1.jpg","customer_logo":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/case_study_images\/plus500\/Customer-Logo-Template_500px_4.png","case_study_video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/UHzCmPfqkYA","insights_image":"","og_image":"","twitter_image":"","rxt_industry":"Financial Services","region":"Europe, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Asia, Global","rxt_platforms":"Cloud, Google Cloud, VMware, Security, Armor, Rackspace Security Essentials","rxt_solutions":"Cloud, Cloud Optimization, Multicloud, Public Cloud, Private Cloud, Security, Detect & Respond, Security Operations","rxt_professional_managed_service":"Managed Services","business_size":"Enterprise","bu_categories":"","details_url":"","teaser_title":"Plus500","teaser_flag":"Case Study","teaser_read_more":"Learn More","teaser_logo":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/case_study_images\/plus500\/Related-Stories_480x360_30.jpg","related_headline":"Related Case Studies","content_type":"case_study","nid":"","drupal_nid":"23829","drupal_path":"\/case-studies\/plus500","related_case_studies":"bfc-group-holdings,mrs-ts-pierogies,brooks-macdonald","tab_items":"General contact case study L2, Contact Tab 2, Combained Contact Us - Careers","view_all_case_studies":"{\"uri\":\"entity:node\\\/8886\",\"title\":\"View all Case Studies\",\"options\":[]}","breadcrumb_top":"{\"uri\":\"entity:node\\\/23443\",\"title\":\"Case Studies\",\"options\":[]}","breadcrumb_title":"Plus500","display_quote":"1","form_headline":"Let\u2019s Talk Strategy","form_subtext":" Tell us a little about your challenges and we\u2019ll contact you.<\/p>\r\n","metatag":"","primary_cta_url_target":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[209],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12076","case_study","type-case_study","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-case-study"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rackspace.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/case_study\/12076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rackspace.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/case_study"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rackspace.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/case_study"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rackspace.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rackspace.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rackspace.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/case_study\/12076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12077,"href":"https:\/\/www.rackspace.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/case_study\/12076\/revisions\/12077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rackspace.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rackspace.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rackspace.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rackspace.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}