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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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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

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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

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November 03, 2023

F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense Review

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Saket Gupta
Engineer
Broadcom (Information Technology & Services, 5001-10,000 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I was using F5 to do the load balancing in our server where we wanted to run behind the scenes on the parts and we wanted to run all the docker images where F5 is held to refresh the problem.
Pros and Cons
  • So when the traffic increases it's auto balance and then also gives the user the stickiness to the space fake pod to run with.
  • It can be optimized to be more user-friendly. Right now it takes a little time and more training to understand things, but if it can have the self-reveal video it can improve the quality of the product.
Likelihood to Recommend
When we wanted to have the load balancing on a different environment, it was really very well suited there. But it needs to be scaled down very quickly.
Return on Investment
  • So the positive impact is that it is the performance, which gives a lot of scalability, which we use right? So we are able to scale very fast. So that is the best way to do it.
Support Rating
9
Because we have been using this product for over a year, we like this and we want to use it for the other department also. So I definitely recommend it to other customers or the vendors to use this F5.
Bot Mitigation
So they are using different departments and then we are still comparing to see which one is better. But I still believe F5 has more feature functionality that can benefit the customers.
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