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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…

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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 …
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Pricing

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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
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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).
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Reviews and Ratings

(38)

Attribute Ratings

Reviews

(1-5 of 5)
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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 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense for bot defense and bot mitigation. Trying to address all the telemetry's of various threats.
  • Mitigating Credential Stuffing Attacks
  • Bot Mitigation
  • DDoS
  • Dictionary attacks
  • Excellent product, need to be customized for individual customer budgets
  • Including IP Intelligence into BOT Defense
Excellent tool for mitigating BOT attacks. Some of the credential stuffing attacks can be mitigated within seconds, as it detects the abnormalities very quickly.
  • Excellent reporting and monitoring system, providing the 10000 feet overview of applications.
Never faced any dearth of technology support for shape security currently known as distributed bot defense.
Previously known as shape security, the solution uses irule to integrate the virtual server traffic being routed to the shape security servers.
Leaps and bounds ahead of the game from competitors
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We had a huge issue with bad actors trying to get into our online platform with DoS and bot generated traffic and F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense helped us in the right time and precisely solving our issue with 100% accuracy.
  • Visibility of all the traffic
  • Stop bot generated traffic
  • Great support team
Very well created solution to cater a very specific issue of bot intrusion prevention.
  • Stopped the credential stuffing attacks right from the time we put it in action
Amazing support by F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense Managed services team
Very easy and smooth implementation handled by the F5 account team
We have tried a whole bunch of solutions before we got Shape bot defense solution. But non of them worked for us the way F5 Shape solution worked
April 26, 2023

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Jesus Enrique Gonzales Azcarate | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Protect the infraestructure in the cloud how virtual machines, services and apps. The scope is protect many resources about the services.
  • Easy
  • Security
  • Fast configuration
  • IT
  • Development
  • Financial services
Security in the protect resources in the cloud.
  • Licenses
  • Costs
  • Model license
Services support is important for the attention at customers.
Securyting the access application
For the support, security and supporting for the customers
November 13, 2021

Shape is Shaping

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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 attacks which are automated and difficult to find. It gives a detailed analysis of the traffic being initiated towards the organization's service/application. It also provides leverage to keep it in alerting or blocking mode.
  • Mitigate automated attacks
  • Detect unrealistic traffic patterns
  • Automated emails about the attack
  • Inhouse deployment
It is suitable to detect automated attacks like BOT mitigation. To have visibility on how these attacks are triggering towards the services, the shape is the product in this regard. It will be useful in case the employee credentials are being reused by the attacker sitting on the Internet to get access to the web application.
  • It is under analysis
It is easy to get support and align with the f5 shape team.
There is no quality impact observed on the services while integration with Shape.
No other product have been used so far.
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