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Bot Manager

Stop the most dangerous, evasive bots before they erode customer trust

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Bot Manager

Stop the most dangerous, evasive bots before they erode customer trust

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Bot protection that delivers improved user experience

Akamai Bot Manager effectively detects bot traffic and mitigates malicious bots at the edge, while effectively managing good bots — all without impacting user experience. It protects your apps and assets, regardless of how or where customers choose to interact with you. Akamai Bot Manager enables you to run automated operations more safely and effectively, increasing customer trust in your entire ecosystem. Bot Manager also provides customers with visualization and reporting tools, so customers can see the impact that various types of bots have on their business and infrastructure.

Safeguard your most fragile asset: Customer trust

Defend against dangerous, costly bot attacks

Let the good bots in. Keep the bad bots out. Right where they first make contact.

Outsmart the most sophisticated and elusive bots

Our researchers analyze TBs of new attack data daily to protect you from evolving bots.

Say goodbye to dealing with bot attack fallout

No more drains on IT spend or staff time to investigate compromised accounts.

How Bot Manager Works

Customize

Configure how good and bad bots are managed through an easy-to-use portal.

Configure

Behavior anomaly detection is configured automatically by injecting a simple script into each monitored page.

Monitor

Patented technologies with an AI framework see traffic at the edge, assign a Bot Score for each request, and learn over time.

Respond

Challenge suspected bad bots with cutting-edge security solutions that slow attacks and drive up costs for attackers.

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Learn about web scraping and its impacts on ecommerce sites, and how to protect against the negative impacts with a bot defense.

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Features

  • Advanced bot detection using AI models for user behavior analysis, browser fingerprinting, and more
  • Intelligence from the cleanest data based on billions of bot requests and logins daily
  • Stealthy defenses that go beyond block-and-allow actions that tip-off bots

  • Real-time, big-picture reporting of trends, industry insights, and detailed analysis of your bot traffic
  • Continuous updates to our known bot directory
  • Protection for your entire attack surface using the same advanced bot detections for your mobile apps

Customer Story

The Washington Post

Watch to learn how this publishing giant protects its brand — from infrastructure to end-user devices.

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Bot Protection Use Cases

Learn how Bot Manager provides a range of advanced actions to help mitigate business challenges from adversarial bots.

Site UX/performance

User experience/site performance

Even good bot traffic can be considered to be noncritical traffic. However, as more content becomes dynamic, it becomes uncacheable from CDNs like Akamai and results in a slower site, which frustrates users. Bot management allows organizations to slow down bots during times of high user traffic, as well as serving cached content to bots instead of live site content.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Bot Manager has visibility into more than 40 billion bots a day. It generates a score from 0 (human) to 100 (bot), looking at all anomalies, starting with the very first request. As the number of requests from the same bot increases, the score can also increase. This capability allows you to define a response strategy for different actions to be applied, based on the Bot Score. The strategy is defined in three response segments: Cautious Response (which should be watched), Strict Response (which should be challenged), and Aggressive Response (which should be mitigated). You can tune the score at which each of these response strategies apply, and you can also adjust the action that gets applied. Akamai evaluates every bot against every detection, giving you more insight into why it was classified as a bot, so you can strategically adapt your protections.

Resources

Have Web Trust Issues? Bot Management Can Help

Bot management involves detecting, identifying, and blocking or allowing bots that interact with websites, applications, and networks.

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The 8 Most Common Causes of Data Breaches

Discover the primary causes of data breaches — and how to protect your organization from these pervasive threats.

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Top 10 Considerations for Bot Management

Learn now to evaluate bot management solutions. See how critical differences could impact your business.

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Live demo with simulated attack: Bot Manager

We’ll walk you through a credential stuffing attack simulation, so you can experience firsthand how Bot Manager:

  • Leverages AI to detect suspicious behavior and catch an attack in progress
  • Gives you the most accurate and self-tuning assessment of your bot traffic
  • Detects low-and-slow attacks even when nothing appears to be wrong
  • Provides many nuanced responses so you can stop bots — without tipping off the bad guys

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