Articles by Byron McNaught

Application Programming Interfaces, or APIs, are all the rage. While APIs are not new, recent phenomena such as accelerated digital transformation during COVID-19, enhanced software integrations, and efforts to replatform legacy apps for the cloud, has resulted in continuous API sprawl—impacting management, security, and even architectural choices organizations make in order to succeed in the modern digital economy.

You think you solved your bot problem. While performance, analytics, and logs look good, something seems off. All your efforts to improve the digital experience have not borne fruit. Maybe you've taken your bot mitigation vendor through our initial list of items to watch for...but it doesn’t hurt to keep them on their toes.

You suspect that you have a bot problem, and—after preliminary investigation—you’ve decided to call in professionals to help reclaim some of your time. You’ve narrowed it down to a few vendors, but how do you decide? Here are some good questions that can give you an idea if a bot mitigation vendor’s solution is the right fit for your environment.