Modern bots traffic and how to detect them
Bot detection is the first step in preventing automated attacks on your websites, mobile apps, and APIs. It separates your traffic into requests coming from humans and requests coming from bots. Because at least a third of the world’s total web traffic consists of malicious bot traffic, good bot detection is vital for protecting businesses against online security threats. But detecting bot traffic is harder than it has ever been. Bot developers are constantly finding new ways to get around the standard security solutions that most companies still rely on. This includes the use of captcha farms, artificial intelligence, and instrumentation frameworks such as Puppeteer. Today, efficient bot detection requires truly specialized know-how. This article will cover the following topics: What is bot traffic? Why is bot detection important? Why is bot detection so challenging? How can you identify bot traffic? Common bot traffic detection methods & techniques (& their limitations) Wha