Skip to main content
TrustRadius
F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense

F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense
Formerly Shape Security

Overview

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…

Read more
Recent Reviews

Shape is Shaping

8 out of 10
November 13, 2021
Incentivized
F5 Shape has been integrated into our critical service of the organization, purpose of the integration is to mitigate or be aware of the …
Continue reading
Read all reviews

Reviewer Pros & Cons

View all pros & cons
Return to navigation

Pricing

View all pricing

Free

$0

Cloud

Individual

$25

Cloud
per month

Teams

$200

Cloud
per month

Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee optional
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.f5.com/cloud/pricing

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $25 per month
Return to navigation

Product Details

What is F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense?

Bot attacks are difficult to stop—criminals retool to bypass defenses, rapidly solving CAPTCHAs and mimicking human behavior. To stay ahead of bots, the F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense uses AI solution to achieve bot protection based on analysis of devices and behavioral signals that unmask automation. This is to give users the advantage of a network effect as the platform adapts to retooling attempts across thousands of the world’s most highly trafficked apps. XC Cloud Bot Defense protects against a broad set of bot-based attacks including account takeover, carding, inventory hoarding, gift card bots, and scrapers.

F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense Features

  • Supported: Connectors for easier deployment - Prebuilt integrations enable cloud and on-premises deployments.
  • Supported: Real-time bot mitigation - Behavioral, network, device, and environmental signals
  • Supported: Collective defense network - Adapts to attacker retooling with global collective threat intelligence telemetry and AI
  • Supported: Obfuscation architecture - Prevents reverse engineering and tampering with advanced obfuscation
  • Supported: Managed service offering - Augments security staff with managed service offering

F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense Integrations

F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense starts at $25.

Akamai, Imperva Advanced Bot Protection, and DataDome are common alternatives for F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense.

Reviewers rate Implementation Rating highest, with a score of 8.4.

The most common users of F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
Return to navigation

Comparisons

View all alternatives
Return to navigation

Reviews and Ratings

(38)

Attribute Ratings

Reviews

(1-4 of 4)
Companies can't remove reviews or game the system. Here's why
David Kolbo | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Our company is the target of many large web/data scraping campaigns, Credential Stuffing, Carding/Credit Card Stuffing, Fake Account Creation for Points Laundering, and much more. We use F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense to protection our customers against these advanced bot attacks with our web and mobile native apps.
  • Quickly helps mitigate the retooling and newer advanced bot attacks
  • Excellent customer service from our f5 bot Defense team/partners
  • Easy to do Traffic Analysis/False Positive reviews with their dashboard of data
  • Our F5 Security/Solutions Architect and TAM is always there for us whenever we need them
  • First class service by the F5 Distributed Cloud Bot DefenseSOC, the Tactics Team, the F5 Testing person that helps us, the mobile SDK experts, the Client-Side Signals experts and F5 management
  • Industry best Threat Briefings
  • Not only is F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense great at stopping the advanced bot attacks, they also have protection against any tampering or replay attacks.
F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense is well suited for large Enterprises that face advanced bot attacks from Web Scraping, Credential Stuffing, Carding/Credit Card Stuffing, Fake Account Creation, and more where the collection of the Client-Side signals helps clearly show if the attackers are telling lies vs. other bot solutions that place a lot of the responsibility on their customers to tune bot scores.
  • We experience large web/data scraping attack campaigns and F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense over the years has helped mitigate these for us and significantly reducing load off of our origin servers.
  • Also, we experience many large Credential Stuffing attacks and F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense helps us stop these attacks and protects our customers.
I gave this rating because our F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense partners take care of us extremely well. They are A+ partners.
F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense and our partners are great at helping us with in-depth Traffic Analysis of protected endpoints first in Monitoring Mode. After 7-14 days of Traffic Analysis/False Positive reviews, we can clearly tell when we are ready to place protected endpoints into Mitigation Mode.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We used F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense in testing how to protect a critical customer facing portal. After moving the portal from our on-premises data center to a cloud provider really limited our analytics and insights on what was happening with the portal. F5 Distributed cloud was able to provide much needed deeper analytics and protection.
  • The setup process for F5 Distributed cloud bot defense was much easier than any other product that we have ever used.
  • The UX is great however it constantly changes and slows us down from doing or normal operations occasionally.
Having a hybrid multi-cloud environment has been a struggle for us to protect and gather analytics for. F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense has become a must have too for our organization. The single pane of glass for us to showcase to upper management has been invaluable.
  • The ability to pinpoint where in the app flow problems may exists has gone from hours to mere minutes.
The support for F5 distributed cloud defense has been fast and comprehensive. It matches the level of support we have come to expect from F5 whether that is for LTM, GTM, Or the overall platform hardware.
The implementation of F5 distributed cloud, but defense was extremely easy. Very simple to set up an implement in a matter of minutes.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our organization uses F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense to protect our customer facing applications, primarily around API security. As a large travel website, we are a primary target for both our pricing and inventory information as well as our customer information. Bot Defense has helped protect both, and the people behind the product support have been instrumental in making our partnership and posture a success.
  • The people behind the product
  • identifying potential bad actors
  • mitigating risk quickly
  • visuals
F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense is a bot defense product, so it is based on telemetry not volume. This is not necessarily a ddos protection. It is also not as well suited, currently, for fraud protection.
  • reduce server load - costs
  • protect user data - compliance
Its just a great partnership with great people who understand our system.
It was a quick initial implementation, but the process of tuning has been a journey.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defence helps to defend against malicious bots.It protects our web applications and APIs against malicious bots.It protects data privacy violations as it prevents loss of sensitive data.
  • It prevents creation of fraudulent accounts and also prevents account takeover.
  • Helps to stop bots that mimicks human behaviour.
  • It offers quick response to issues.
  • It is simple to deploy this tool.
  • This tool achieves all our organization objectives hence nothing to dislike.
It's best suited for malicious bot detection and prevention hence any organization should purpose to use it.
  • Ease to identify and mitigate malicious bots.
  • It protects our organization web applications and networks against bot attacks.
  • Save operations time and cost.
F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defence provides quick response to security incidents thus saving time.
This tool helps to detect and mitigate frauds and malicious bots thus it increases the performance of our web applications.
Return to navigation