Mitigating Bot Attacks against Cloudflare

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This post details the evolution and application of Cloudflare's Bot Management product. It describes the initial development using machine learning for predicting challenge solutions, its use in protecting Cloudflare's own landing pages from form spam and SEO abuse, and its role in securing the dashboard for domain signups and the billing system for payment card validation. The post highlights the use of Anomaly Detection for API abuse and the introduction of Super Bot Fight Mode. It also emphasizes the importance of global data for training bot detection models.