Radware has added a new set of crypto mitigation algorithms to its Bot Manager. Inspired by blockchain methods, the algorithms help close security loopholes that allow sophisticated bots to bypass traditional CAPTCHA solutions and harm a website or application. At the same time, they allow real visitors to use the website without CAPTCHAs.
"The problem of bad bots is getting bigger and bigger for companies big and small," says Dr. David Aviv, Radware's Chief Technology Officer. “Malicious bots are used for everything from stealing concert tickets and blocking inventory to account takeovers and credit card fraud.”
CAPTCHAs lose against smart bots
While CAPTCHAs are a popular option and work for some use cases, Radware says they are no longer able to provide protection from today's scalable and sophisticated bots. Organizations must therefore go beyond a traditional, off-the-shelf solution and move to a multi-layered defense mechanism that can mitigate even the most advanced bot attacks.
According to Radware, the number of attacks using 4th generation bots increased by 2022% in the first half of 144 compared to the same period last year. While using CAPTCHAs has been the most popular way to keep malicious bots off websites, CAPTCHAs can lead to user unfriendliness, customer frustration, and churn. Using various digital fingerprint bypass techniques, as well as anti-CAPTCHA plugins and CAPTCHA solution farms, bot masters can completely bypass CAPTCHAs. Securing Internet offers from bots is becoming an ever greater challenge.
Zero Trust with no CAPTCHAS
To counter these tactics, Radware's new crypto mitigation algorithms form the basis of a new zero-trust approach to public-facing web and API applications. Since mitigation takes place behind the scenes, it is invisible to visitors. This makes it difficult for malicious actors to manipulate them and also increases usability by avoiding CAPTCHAs. In order to increase application security, mitigation is also carried out continuously. It operates with near-zero grace periods to keep malicious bot machines busy and draining their resources, as well as slowing down the bot masters' motivation to attack.
Radware Bot Manager against bad bots
Radware Bot Manager protects against all forms of automated attacks, including account takeover, denial of inventory, application DDoS, advertising and payment fraud, and web scraping. With the Bad Bot Business Impact Calculator Radware allows organizations to estimate the financial cost of malicious bots to their business based on their industry, traffic levels, revenue, and infrastructure costs. Radware has been recognized as a Technology Leader in Quadrant Knowledge Solutions' SPARK Matrix "Bot Management Analysis of the global Bot Management Market" for two consecutive years.
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