Bot mitigation providers claim to help with web scraping and account fraud, but very few do it well enough.

The majority of login attempts are fake. Credential abuse attacks, account takeover, and price scraping continue to persist.

Much like viruses can jump across species, say from birds to humans, malware can jump from initial platforms to new ones to spread infection.

The reality is, that sloppy OpSec can put the value of any security solution at risk, and potentially undermines the investment.

E-commerce brands are accustomed to spikes during the holiday shopping season, a promotional campaign, or a new must-have product.

Scraped data is being taken and used for competitive or other motives without the scraped company benefitting in any way.

Technology now has to handle a sudden and sustained increase in customer demand as everything and everyone shifts online today

A CAPTCHA approach is not only imperfect, but it’s the wrong approach altogether to stopping malicious bots.

What distinguishes the solution is that instead of just outright blocking traffic it identifies as malicious, it seeks to undermine the economics of running a bot.

So, what is a bot anyway? Personally, I think it’s an overused, often misunderstood and mostly useless term.