Articles by Jim Downey

The Forrester Wave™: Bot Management Software, Q3 2024 recently named F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense a strong performer, recognizing F5 as “the only vendor whose mobile SDK can extend into a mobile application shielding tool.”

F5 named a strong performer in the Forrester Wave™: Bot Management Software, recognizing F5's strong SaaS-based offering for bot defense.

Combat Gen AI risks with robust content scraping protection, securing your digital assets against AI-driven theft and unauthorized data collection.

Learn about the critical link between bot management and API security. Safeguard against resource consumption attacks, authentication vulnerabilities, and more.

Cybercrime is evolving with the use of AI for phishing. Learn how generative AI enables automation of spear phishing and what that means for cybersecurity.

Data scraping by bots puts personal data privacy at risk. Learn what your organization can do to protect data security compliance efforts.

Enterprises need to take additional measures to bolster the security of MFA, including bot mitigation and the monitoring of contextual risk.

Bots cause tremendous financial pain. Not only is the impact large, the likelihood of an attack for businesses online is nearly 100 percent because the attacks are so lucrative for criminals.

Deloitte projects that e-commerce sales will grow by 12.8% to 14.3%, year-over-year, during the 2022-2023 holiday season. That’s a lot of activity on your e-commerce apps—and not all of it will be from happy holiday elves checking their shopping lists.

Simply put, criminals who utilize bots follow the money, and during the holiday season, that unfortunately may include targeting your e-commerce site.

Criminals can retool bots within minutes to bypass defenses, utilize millions of valid IP addresses, rapidly solve CAPTCHAs, mimic human behavior, and introduce subtle randomness. Aite-Novarica Group’s report reviews leading bot management offerings, recognizing F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense as a Best in Class solution.

Given the critical role of DevSecOps in securing the modern enterprise, it follows that bot management should be included among the responsibilities of that particular discipline. Not only is bot management essential to security and thus core to the mission of DevSecOps, but DevSecOps is also ideally positioned to ensure that organizations are well protected against malicious bots.

With F5's participation, the Global Privacy Assembly recently published the first intergovernmental guidelines on credential stuffing asserting that this type of threat poses a risk to personal data on a global scale and that data protection laws require that organizations protect against it.