The Advanced Bot Protection
Bots makes up about 40% of the Internet traffic and have become an essential part of the Internet in the last few decades. The Bots are sophisticated software programs that are mainly used to perform automated tasks over the Internet. Most of the Bots are assigned to scan content, interacting with users, and searching for target attacks. Bots could be used for both good and bad intentions. The bad ones could be programmed to scan the web for personal details like emails to spam, hack into some user accounts and perform other harmful or illegal activities. The way Bots are designed or programmed has evolved in the past years due to which they are now more complex and less useful than being harmful. That’s where advanced Bot protection is required. A lot of emerging companies look forward to find ways to differentiate between the good and the bad Bots. To let good bots work and stop the bad malicious ones.
Bad Bots are spread wide all over the Internet or cyberspace waiting and searching systems to infect and exfiltrate all possible and valuable data. A rise of bad Bots can be seen due to a rise in the Internet traffic led by shifting to remote working force by the situation of Covid-19 pandemic. Bad Bots are also used by Bot operators that use these to gain unauthorized access to various user accounts by performing credential stuffing attacks. With a rise in such activities, the need for advanced Bot protection rises.
Advanced Bot protection service analyses the content of your application, your application’s risk and stays updated to Bot mitigation rules to prevent bad Bots and attacks generated by them. It is also capable of identifying a Bot request and a non Bot request and also secures the access point of your mobile application/API or website. It collects and searches the Bot Traffic to find abnormalities in it. Various Advanced Bot Protection services captures the Bot behavior in real-time and scan’s them in the violator’s database. They serve detailed detection of malicious and bad botnets that ambush behind the IP space.
To prevent bad Bots and their attacks, various advanced Bot mitigation techniques are being used currently. One of the technical ways to detect bad Bots and mitigate them is Behavioral and Application context-based Approach, in which the behavior of the visitor is analyzed and verified that it is what it claims to be or not. It records the visitor’s behavior pattern and matches them to bad Bots found earlier and reacts based on the results. It also creates a baseline for behavior and acts on one’s that differ from the baseline.
Another technical way to prevent bad Bots could be the Static Approach, in which the advanced Bot protection service identifies the web requests related to bad Bots and also scans the header information and blocks it at the moment if any malicious behavior is found.
Other than these there is a Challenge-based Approach that accurately identifies whether the traffic is human or Bots. It ensures this by using cookies, ability to pass CAPTCHA, and run javascript. If it finds that the user is unable to process any of the above verification elements, it is considered and is usually a bot and is immediately blocked.
Using Advanced Bot Protection in today’s era is a smart move and has many advantages. Blocking the bad Bots may serve advantages like improved page loading speed, improving key performance indicators, optimize business intelligence.
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