#1 most frequent
United States of America
57.7%15 installations of 26
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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Who Buys & Uses F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense
#2 most frequent
Canada
19.2%5 installations of 26
#3 most frequent
Italy
7.7%2 installations of 26
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
Using BOT DEFENSE is a Better Way to be Protected
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
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
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.
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
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
F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
many request invalids are causes from poor performance
Pros
- Request valid
- Better Performance
Cons
- I think there is room for improvement in F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense with Streaming traffic
- bank
Return on Investment
- The impact of F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense on our organization's overall business objectives is ok
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Alternatives Considered
Absolute Insights for Network
Local Government Bot Defense
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense to protect one of our public facing websites that can be used to lookup public records. We block the bots from scrapping the site while allow members of the public to check the records they need.
Pros
- Simple implementation
- Proven Effectiveness
- Clear ROI
Cons
- Reviewing logs for Bot Defense could be clearer
Return on Investment
- Reduction of data scraping
- Improved site performance
Alternatives Considered
Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention, Palo Alto Networks Advanced URL Filtering, Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR, Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series, Palo Alto Networks WildFire and Palo Alto Panorama
