Security News > 2020 > May > How to detect bots: What you need to know

Dan Patterson, a Senior Producer for CBS News and CNET, interviewed Patrick Sullivan, Akamai CTO, Security Strategy, about how to detect and protect against bots.

We've moved up to looking at things like, if somebody says they're on a MacBook running a Chrome browser, and we really interrogate that and fingerprint that device, can they run things like JavaScript? Can they do things that a normal device would be able to do if it asserts to be who it is? And you can find things there, but the bots tend to clean that up as well.

Dan Patterson: Speaking of the state of the art, what about the cloud? It seems as though if I'm going to buy a bot kit and deploy it, I probably need a platform on which to deploy it.

We see tons of requests coming from the cloud that are bots, and that's true of the good bots and the bad bots.

Really, what happens there is rather than you sending the requests from the bots you operate, you're able to rent time on a massive army of proxy servers and then the request will actually come from those proxy servers.

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