Mitigating Bot Attacks against Cloudflare
Mar 26, 2021Sergi Isasi
Summary
This post details the evolution of Cloudflare's Bot Management product, highlighting its application in mitigating bot attacks against Cloudflare.com's own forms and dashboard (SEO spam, account signups). It introduces Super Bot Fight Mode for Pro and Business plans, emphasizing the role of ML models and anomaly detection in identifying and blocking automated traffic. The post also discusses the use of bot scores in payment fraud detection via Cloudflare Workers and the importance of global data scale for model training.
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