F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense
Detect and stop malicious automation while allowing trusted users and approved AI agents to interact without friction.
Protect trusted digital interactions from automation abuse
Bots and AI-driven automation increasingly target customer-facing websites, applications, and APIs to commit fraud, scrape data, hijack accounts, and abuse business processes. F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense uses behavioral analysis, real-time detection, and agent-aware controls to distinguish trusted automation from malicious, protecting revenue and customer trust without increasing friction.
Stop advanced automation attacks
Block bots and AI-driven abuse targeting accounts, transactions, and APIs.
Preserve user experiences
Apply controls only when risk is detected to minimize friction.
Enable trusted AI agents
Safely allow approved AI automation while stopping abuse.
Simplify operations
Unified visibility and management through the F5 platform.
Protect, enable, and scale digital experiences
Threat protection
Stop evolving bots and AI-driven attacks
Detect and stop credential stuffing, account takeover, scraping, inventory abuse, fraud, and emerging agentic AI threats using adaptive behavioral analysis and real-time threat intelligence. F5 continuously evolves defenses as attacker techniques change.
Frictionless trust
Protect users without disrupting experiences
Accurately distinguish legitimate users, trusted AI agents, and malicious automation. Apply challenges and controls only when risk is detected, helping improve conversion rates while reducing fraud and abuse.
Agent-aware security
Allow trusted AI, stop harmful automation
Move beyond legacy bot-versus-human models with policy-based controls designed for AI agents. Enable approved automation and emerging agent ecosystems while maintaining visibility, accountability, and protection against economically harmful activity.
Platform advantage
Unified protection across every application
Integrated into the F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform, Bot Defense provides centralized visibility, consistent policies, and protection across web apps, mobile apps, APIs, hybrid environments, and multicloud deployments.
Core Capabilities
Advanced, adaptive protection designed for modern automation and agentic AI threats.
Behavioral detection
Identify malicious intent beyond signatures.
AI agent awareness
Differentiate trusted and harmful AI traffic
Fraud prevention
Protect applications, accounts and transactions
Mobile protection
Defend mobile application traffic
API protection
Secure APIs from automated abuse
Adaptive protection
Continuously evolves against new threats
Policy controls
Allow, challenge, monitor, or block
Unified visibility
Single platform for insight and management
Product Overview
Trusted interactions across humans, AI agents, and applications
Deploy Bot Defense wherever your applications run
Distributed Cloud WAAP
Enable Bot Defense through F5 Distributed Cloud Web App and API Protection (WAAP) to protect web applications, APIs, and digital services with unified security, centralized management, and global visibility
BIG-IP
Integrate F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense with BIG-IP using native integrations and iApps to extend advanced bot protection across existing application delivery and security investments.
Hybrid and multicloud
Protect applications consistently across public cloud, private cloud, on-premises, and distributed architectures with unified visibility and policy management.
Custom architecture
Deploy Bot Defense within your unique environment, including on-premises, hybrid, multicloud, containerized, and custom application architectures, with guidance from F5 experts.
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Integration with Syslog and leading SIEM systems
Security and fraud teams at top organizations use Distributed Cloud Bot Defense data and inferences for real-time threat analysis, integrating with leading SIEM systems or cloud buckets.
FAQs
F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense protects websites, mobile applications, and APIs from malicious bots, fraud, and AI-driven automation using real-time behavioral analysis and adaptive detection.
Instead of relying on static challenges or signatures, F5 continuously analyzes behavior and telemetry to detect malicious automation while minimizing friction for legitimate users.
Yes. F5 can identify, classify, and apply policy controls to AI-driven traffic, helping organizations distinguish trusted AI agents from malicious or economically harmful automation.
Bot Defense protects against credential stuffing, account takeover, fake account creation, scraping, carding, gift card abuse, inventory hoarding, SMS pumping, and other automated attacks.
Yes. F5 provides protection across web, mobile, and API environments using shared intelligence and telemetry.
Bot Defense is integrated into the F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform, enabling unified visibility, operations, and security across applications and APIs.