Bot Management
Bot detection and blocking
Fastly Bot Management uses machine learning and fingerprinting to classify traffic into 4 categories: verified bots (Google, Bing), good bots, suspicious bots, and malicious bots. The system detects credential stuffing, account takeover, scanning, inventory hoarding, and other automated abuse with 99%+ accuracy. Flexible response actions allow blocking, challenging, rate limiting, or custom processing depending on the risk score.
Enterprise-grade protection compliant with regulatory requirements and security standards
Fast deployment with minimal resource overhead
Dedicated support from a certified partner
Easy integration with your existing infrastructure
Key features
- ML classification with 99%+ accuracy distinguishing bots from humans
- Device fingerprinting with 500+ signals: browser, TLS, behavior, reputation
- Detection of credential stuffing, ATO, scraping, carding, inventory hoarding
- Approved bot allowlist for Google, Bing, Facebook, and 50+ known crawlers
- Flexible responses: block, challenge, rate limit, tarpitting, custom
Business benefits
- Protection against fraud and account takeover, reducing losses by 95%
- SEO preservation through allowlisting search engine crawlers
- 30% infrastructure cost reduction by blocking bot traffic
- API protection against automated abuse and scraping
- Visibility into the bot landscape through detailed analytics and reporting
Why Fastly?
An edge cloud platform offering a next-generation CDN, advanced WAF, and DDoS protection. Fastly stands out with its performance, flexibility, and the ability to deploy security logic directly at the edge, blocking threats as close to their source as possible.
Need Bot Management in your organization?
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