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Cloudflare Bot Management available on IBM Cloud Internet Services to address growing threat landscape
Cloudflare announced that IBM Cloud Internet Services , powered by Cloudflare , has expanded its offering to include Cloudflare Bot Management , now available to help enterprises on the Enterprise Premier Plan address and combat the growing threat of malicious bot traffic .
Cloudflare and IBM Cloud have been working together since 2018 , integrating Cloudflare application security and performance natively into IBM Cloud through IBM CIS , powered by Cloudflare . CIS positions customers to configure their web and Internet applications to be protected against cyber threats including DDoS attacks and data theft , while enhancing performance and reliability with load balancing , optimised routing and caching , and data exchange , as part of the CIS suite of capabilities .
Furthering the delivery of Cloudflare Bot Management comes as bad bots continue to consume resources and overwhelm organisations , accounting for at least a quarter of all Internet traffic , according to Forrester Research , a leading global research and advisory firm .
Modern bot management tools must keep up with ever-evolving attacks , offer a range of out-of-the-box and customisable reports , and enable human end customers to transact business with little friction or frustration . As malicious bot attacks become more sophisticated and manual mitigations
become more burdensome , a dynamic and adaptive solution is required for enterprises running Internet-facing workloads .
With Cloudflare Bot Management , businesses can be protected from targeted application abuse such as credential stuffing , inventory hoarding , carding abuse , and content scraping , as part of the complete Bot Management detection and mitigation offering . The Cloudflare Bot Management feature is available now for any IBM Cloud CIS customer with an Enterprise Premier Plan .
“ Malicious bots are part of this equation , posing significant risks and causing
Matt Harrell , Global Head of Channels and Alliances at Cloudflare inefficiencies in business , from fraudulent transactions to fake attempts to make purchases ,” said Matt Harrell , Global Head of Channels and Alliances at Cloudflare .
“ These malicious activities can deprive legitimate customers from making purchases and affect a business ’ bottom line , not to mention potential larger risks of data loss . This is a further effort to protect operations at this critical level .”
As one of the largest and most interconnected networks in the world , Cloudflare is able to derive deep insights from analysing a wide range of traffic .
Cloudflare Bot Management delivers the following for customers :
Identify malicious bots through effective machine learning
Cloudflare Bot Management is trained on hundreds of billions of requests per day , with Cloudflare ’ s machine learning creating a bot score for every request running through its network . The solution automatically filters out content scraping and site crawling as well as inventory hoarding and credit card stuffing .
Gain enhanced behavioural analysis of types of Internet traffic
Analysed behaviour and detection of anomalies in an organisation ’ s specific traffic , across all their Internet properties , provides another level of business insight .
Reduce risk through fingerprinting
Cloudflare leverages fingerprinting from millions of diversified Internet properties to accurately classify bots but does not generate or store device fingerprints , eliminating risk to user privacy .
Since 2018 , Cloudflare has been collaborating with IBM CIS to implement features that address critical Internet security challenges while delivering performance and reliability across business applications . •
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