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What is F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense?

F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense (formerly Shape Defense, acquired January 2020) provides security to protect a website from bots, fake users, and unauthorized transactions, preventing large scale fraud and eroded user experiences. Companies get visibility, detection and mitigation outcomes to reduce fraud and cloud hosting, bandwidth and compute costs, improve user experiences, and optimize their business based on real human traffic.

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F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense Reviews

What users are saying about F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense.
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Pros

  • Effective mitigation of credential stuffing, carding, and data scraping bots
  • Intent-based logic for advanced bot detection beyond simple IP blocking
  • Robust visibility and monitoring capabilities for bot traffic across endpoints

Cons

  • User interface and reporting functionalities require improvement for clarity
  • Debugging SDK-based integrations can be challenging
  • Suboptimal handling of streaming traffic and overall bot consumption

[...] Masterpiece

Incentivized
Verified User
Team Lead in Engineering (1001-5000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

AI is currently being implemented for various products; what has drawn attention is that attacks are starting to increase or place a heavy load on the systems.

en este momento se ESTA implementando IA para diferentes products, lo que ha llamado la atenci[on es que los ataques empiezan a aumentar o a cargar los sistemas

Pros

  • attack detection
  • threats
  • reports
  • detection de ataques
  • amenazas
  • reportes

Cons

  • Speed of implementation
  • detailed the operation
  • Rapidez de implementacion
  • detailed a la operacion

Alternatives Considered

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F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense

Incentivized
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In my opinion, The F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense is a great tool, it makes defense easy. These days with so many attack happening in real time, we need a tool that can help us defent in real time

Pros

  • real time defence
  • zero day

Cons

  • licence can be cheaper

Return on Investment

  • reduce unauthorized access

Alternatives Considered

(EOL) Cisco CloudCenter

Using BOT DEFENSE is a Better Way to be Protected

Incentivized
Florentino Lopez
Vendor Management Supervisor in Customer Service at TD SYNNEX (501-1000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I work in a Wholesaler in Mexico City, we al ready have a NFR XC this product gives me the opportunity to demonstrate to my partners how to protect the modern apps and how to solve neccesites with their inviroment

F5 XC BOT DEFENSE helps organization to protect the most value active in their Organization

Pros

  • Visibility
  • Adaptability
  • Monitoring

Cons

  • Pro active detection
  • Installed Base of Programs or APPS dedicated to atack modern apps
  • Interaction with Social Media ,

Return on Investment

  • Protect the investment of bring a service or product
  • Helps Organization know how users are really seeing their applicatios
  • Brins Security to other services and secure connect to all services they provide

Alternatives Considered

Apache APISIX and Imperva API Security

Other Software Used

AWS App Mesh, AWS Backup, Apache MXNet on AWS

A Longtime LTM User TCLd to Pick XC - And Its Not Just the Bot Defence

Incentivized
Stephen Sabey
Executive Director, Platforms in Information Technology at Government of Alberta (10,001+ employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use XC Bot Defense to protect our customer facing SSO, ecommerce and payment service endpoints from automation and to help defend against fraud.
Since implementing this service we have been able to virtually eliminate credential stuffing attacks that we commonly experienced.

Pros

  • Protection against simple automation
  • Ability to provide client device insights
  • Protect against credential stuffing attacks

Cons

  • more comprehensive mobile API protection without requiring additional products.
  • ability to provide custom account and device-centric analytics reporting and forensics support to customers.

Return on Investment

  • Virtual elimination of credential stuffing attacks
  • Redutuction in automated scraping activities.

Alternatives Considered

F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)

Other Software Used

Azure Front Door, Cloudflare, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)

Good times

Incentivized
Michael HoodView profile
It security admin in Information Technology at Paycom (1001-5000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are dipping our toes into F5 Distributed Cloud and Bot Defense and XC. Our current scope is to address bot traffic on our marketing sites, and assist our marketing team gather true engagement data for specific endpoints. Our long term goals would be to move more of our Enterprise apps to XC for similar coverage.

Pros

  • Cuts down on false positives
  • Good visibility and information on types of bot traffic hitting your different endpoints
  • Easy roll-out to any or all parts of app housed in XC with a few clicks and limited setup information to get started

Cons

  • So far no real complaints as we are in early stages of our POC

Return on Investment

  • Our scope is limited, but are teams enjoy the flexibility of the product to meet various teams scope and needs within their managed endpoints

Alternatives Considered

F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)

Other Software Used

Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series, F5 BIG-IP

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