Why we stopped fighting bots at the App layer
July 24, 2025

Why we stopped fighting bots at the App layer

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense

We are mostly using it on login portals, signup forms, cart pages, pricing tools and search endpoints. These areas tend to attract credential stuffing, scarping and account takeovers especially for fintech and e-com clients. We deploy it through the main cloud platform, integrated with both our edge proxy and app backend.

Pros

  • Distinguishing between automated traffic and real users without breaking the front end or overloading our WAF
  • I absolutely love the telemetry fingerprinting.
  • The integration through the console has made rollouts much faster.

Cons

  • The documentation is thin on edge-case handling. We constantly run into issues enabling bots on multi tenant apps.
  • Prior to F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense, we were averaging 12k plus credential stuffing attempts weekly across client portals That number fell down to less than a thousand in just 4 weeks
  • Over 90 percent of scraping and unauthorized price harvesting blocked
They have a great team that responds pretty quickly

Do you think F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense's feature set?

Yes

Did F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense again?

Yes

In my 7 year career as a security engineer, F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense is one of the few solutions that actually delivers bot mitigation without affecting the real users. Behavior detection is really smart and fast, which is what we needed for protecting sensitive endpoints. The only thing however that could get better is the admin console. everything is everywhere here.

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