Fastly Bot Management

Bots are a pervasive internet presence that range from benign to mildly intrusive to malicious and highly damaging. With almost half of internet traffic coming from bots, organizations are challenged with differentiating between legitimate users, malicious attackers, or benign/good bots. This challenge is operationally expensive and strains IT and security teams.

The market offers numerous bot mitigation solutions, but many struggle with efficiency, complexity, and adaptability. This often translates to a frustrating, high-friction experience. Fastly Bot Management was designed to address these challenges, offering a streamlined, user-friendly experience to ensure your applications stay safe from threats like account takeover, credential stuffing, and credit card fraud while keeping your business thriving uninterrupted. Rapid decisioning on our edge network and an intuitive user experience enable you to confidently respond to bot traffic without disrupting your development cycle, waiting on AI/ML tuning, or creating additional toil.

A Modern Approach To Bot Management

Key Features

Comprehensive Bot Detection

With Fastly’s client-side detection, server-side detection, and continuously updated verified bots list, you’ll have everything needed to identify automated traffic on your apps and APIs.

Multi-layered Bot Mitigation

Easily decide when to engage automated traffic with our simple rule builder and options for adaptive response via Dynamic Challenges or static response via challenges, rate limits, or IP blocks.

Real-Time Visibility

Continuous monitoring of your web traffic with real-time insights into bot activities and potential vulnerabilities. Intuitive dashboards displays comprehensive analytics and reports, enabling you to track bot trends, identify emerging threats, and fine-tune your security settings accordingly.

Customizable Policies

Customize your bot management policies to align with your business needs. From defining allowlists and blocklists to creating custom rules based on user behavior, Fastly Bot Management has the flexibility to accommodate your organization's security objectives.

Seamless Integrations

Built for the modern web, Fastly Bot Management seamlessly integrates with your existing infrastructure, whether it's a website, API, or mobile application. With the widest support of platforms and programming languages, you can effortlessly integrate Fastly Bot Management into your technology stack without disrupting your development workflow.

Scalable for Rapid Growth

Effortless scalability accommodates high-traffic websites and applications, ensuring optimal performance even during peak usage periods. Cloud-based infrastructure provides reliability and availability, guaranteeing uninterrupted protection against bots.

Dynamic Challenges

Serve the optimal challenge to traffic based on real-time analysis of incoming traffic, regardless of whether it’s hitting web applications or mobile experiences. It prioritizes the least intrusive traffic validation for legitimate users while posing the most difficult challenges to clear bots.

Fastly Bot Management operates at the network edge to protect your infrastructure and your users

Common Use Cases

The Fastly Advantage

Fastly Bot Management builds upon the accuracy, ease of use, and flexibility of our Next-Gen WAF and the scalability and performance of our global edge cloud network for deeper bot visibility and robust mitigation capabilities. Here’s what sets us apart:

• One Platform: As part of the Fastly Edge Cloud Platform, Bot Management deploys natively. Instant availability and no additional software deployment required to configure, manage, or maintain. Manage everything from a single interface to streamline processes and reduce data silos. This simplifies administration, reporting, and user management compared to juggling multiple-point solutions.
  

• Performant: Fastly Bot Management operates at the network edge, minimizing latency and protecting your application and APIs from malicious traffic. This translates to a smoother end-user experience and reduced operational costs. Our unique signals-based technology, powered by the continuously updated threat intelligence of our Network Learning Exchange (NLX), delivers faster and more accurate bot blocking compared to traditional, regex methods. Think of it as set it and forget it - Fastly Bot Management constantly adapts to the latest bot threats.
  

• Simple: Fastly Bot Management doesn't sacrifice effectiveness for ease of use. Our intuitive interface requires minimal configuration, yet offers powerful and flexible controls. We believe in a low-maintenance approach. Bot attacks are a constant threat, and you shouldn't have to constantly tweak complex configurations, edit regex, or spend time in learning mode to maintain protection.
  

• Developer-friendly: Fastly prioritizes a developer-friendly experience with a focus on ease and flexibility. This translates to intuitive server-side controls, with the option for deeper customization if needed, programmable APIs, DevOps integrations with your favorite tools, custom code through VCL, and more. Our rapid decision-making capabilities allow you to confidently respond to bot threats without disrupting development cycles or requiring extensive AI/ML tuning.

• Exclusive Features: Only Fastly and one other vendor are authorized to leverage Apple’s Private Access Tokens (PATs) to seamlessly validate traffic legitimacy. PATs are one of the most accurate ways to validate traffic legitimacy, and they’re fully integrated into our Dynamic Challenges, which serve the optimal response to your traffic based on real-time analysis of its characteristics.

Stop bots now with Fastly Bot Management

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