Security News > 2021 > January > What analytics can unveil about bot mitigation tactics

These bots work to expose and take advantage of vulnerabilities at a rapid pace, stealing critical personal and financial data, scraping intellectual property, installing malware, contributing to DDoS attacks, distorting web analytics and damaging SEO. Luckily, tools, approaches, solutions and best practices exist to help companies combat these malicious bots, but cybercriminals have not been resting on their laurels and are constantly working on ways to bypass the protections used to block bot activity.

It is important to regularly review what tactics you are using to combat bot traffic and analyze your success rate, as this process will help you understand whether your mitigation approach has already been figured out and worked around by cybercriminals.

Bot mitigation approaches that are based on observations from historical and contextual data and then rely on taking steps to block similar behavior can often block IP addresses or stop specific user behavior that might not actually indicate an attack.

Even if you've found that your preferred approach to bot mitigation is stopping 99% of bad bot requests, that 1% can still be considerable and damaging.

At the same time, a typical bot mitigation report is a compilation of what was detected and blocked.

With increased insight and a zero trust philosophy to bot mitigation, organizations can plan accordingly and commit resources to improving their customer experience, product offerings, and application speed instead of wasting time, energy and resources fighting ever-evolving bots with outdated tactics.

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