We were facing a barrage of password spray attacks from bots. We were unable to distinguish between good and bad bots. The ASM only helped with rate limiting but did not help differentiate between human logins and automated logins. We used the Shape solution to do this and applied mitigation on the F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense portal. This has helped a great deal and we have scaled it to many other ecommerce platforms.
Pros
Baseline incoming traffic patterns
Clearly provide insights in sources of automated traffic
Excellent SOC support that alerts immediately
Cons
Remove the need for Irules to decorate traffic
Provide options to protect ecommerce applications that are NOT behind f5
AI assistant to explain the threats
Likelihood to Recommend
F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense is far superior to other products in the market. A lot of other solutions focus on DDOS mitigation using volumetric analysis but F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense trumps over them with respect to anomaly detection.
We make use of the F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense to protect our websites. As a a comprehensive solution it addresses the growing challenge of bot attacks. It offers robust protection against credential stuffing, web scraping, DoS amplification, fake account creation, and more.
Pros
Out of the box dashboards to visualise traffic
Automatic bot defense
Reporting
Likelihood to Recommend
Web / Price Scraping - websites are frequently targeted by competitors scraping pricing data or product data and we can leverage F5 Bot Defense to identify and block scraping bots while allowing real customers to access the website without disruption.
F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defence helps to defend against malicious bots.It protects our web applications and APIs against malicious bots.It protects data privacy violations as it prevents loss of sensitive data.
Pros
It prevents creation of fraudulent accounts and also prevents account takeover.
Helps to stop bots that mimicks human behaviour.
It offers quick response to issues.
It is simple to deploy this tool.
Cons
This tool achieves all our organization objectives hence nothing to dislike.
Likelihood to Recommend
It's best suited for malicious bot detection and prevention hence any organization should purpose to use it.
