Why AI Bot Protection and Control Are Essential for Application Security

AI-driven automation is no longer emerging. It is already integrated and accepted as internet traffic. From AI assistants and crawlers to enterprise automation tools, websites are now routinely accessed by non-human actors operating at scale. Vulnerabilities or weaknesses in your application...

The Hidden Costs and Ethical Pitfalls of Content Scraping

Read about the significant hidden costs and ethical pitfalls of content scraping — and learn how to protect your website...

2023 OWASP Top-10 Series: API6:2023 Unrestricted Access to Sensitive Business Flows

Welcome to the 7th post in our weekly series on the new 2023 OWASP API Security Top-10 list, with a particular focus on security practitioners. This post will focus on API6:2023 Unrestricted Access to Sensitive Business Flows. In this series we are taking an in-depth look at each category – the...

The 4 most common bad bot attack methods targeting financial services

Organizations in the financial services sector are high-value targets for cybercriminals. In recent years, more sophisticated botnets and other bad bot attack methods have enabled malicious hackers to ratchet up the speed of attacks on this sector. The four most common ways hackers deploy botnets...

Billions of Malicious Bots Attacks Take to Cipher-Stunting to Hide

When it comes to cyberattacks, adversaries are focusing not just on advanced malware development, but also on increasing the sophistication of their evasion techniques. This is playing out lately in the form of ballooning instances of “cipher stunting” – a TLS tampering technique that helps...

Good bots, bad bots: friend or foe?

One of the most talked about technologies online today is the ubiquitous bot. Simultaneously elusive yet also responsible for all of civilisation’s woes, bots are a hot topic of contention. If we went purely by news reports, we’d assume all bots everywhere are evil, and out to get us or just...