Stop the Bots: Practical Lessons in Machine Learning

This post introduces Cloudflare's practical application of Machine Learning (ML) to combat bot attacks, specifically credential stuffing. It outlines a three-stage framework (Business Intelligence, Standalone Machine Learning, Machine Learning Productization) for integrating ML into products. For Cloudflare, this translates to using vast network data to train ML models for bot detection, achieving high accuracy in identifying malicious traffic, and developing predictive models to proactively warn companies of potential attacks based on their risk profile.