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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

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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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March 30, 2024

F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense - A+ Enterprise Solution for Advanced bot Attacks

David Kolbo | TrustRadius Reviewer
David Kolbo
Cloud Security Engineer
Southwest Airlines (Airlines/Aviation, 10,001+ employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
February 13, 2024

F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense was very simple to set up an implement in a matter of minutes

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Financial Services Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
August 24, 2022

Great AI protection of Cloud Services.

Verified User
Director in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 11-50 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Cloud Bot defense is great for protecting all cloud assets. It is near impossible to have employees monitor these resources each and every second of the day. Criminals do not sleep, so why should our defenses? Having the bots monitoring gives round-the-clock protection and security.
November 13, 2021

Shape is Shaping

Verified User
Professional in Information Technology
Telecommunications Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
November 11, 2021

[In my opinion,] you get what you pay for.

Verified User
Team Lead in Other
Retail Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
[F5] Shape [Security] serves its purpose well, especially up to middle-tier threats. This would include mildly skilled attackers with a reasonably costly resource pool. When necessary, their support has been available to assist any time we call, though it's unfortunate how frequent that is.
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