F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense

Defend against malicious bots. Ensure safe, fast, and seamless user experiences.

Bot Defense That Adapts Faster Than Criminals Retool

Stay ahead as criminals retool

Based on rich signal collection, F5 uses AI to analyze massive traffic volumes to rapidly discover attacker retooling.

Stay ahead as criminals retool
Highest long-term efficacy

Highest long-term efficacy

F5 domain experts conduct deep analysis to detect new automation patterns and generate sophisticated rulesets to mitigate bot attacks.

Trusted by leaders across industries

F5 defends the world’s largest banks, retailers, and airlines, creating a pool of knowledge to protect your apps.

Trusted by leaders across industries
Bot management your way

Bot management your way

F5 offers flexible deployment options for protecting legacy and modern apps both on-premises and across clouds.

Product Overview

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Mitigate malicious bots with a service designed for the highest efficacy

Achieve highly effective bot protection based on unparalleled analysis of devices and behavioral signals that unmasks automation. You gain the advantage of a network effect as the platform adapts to retooling attempts across thousands of the world’s most highly trafficked apps.

Web Application and API Protection (WAAP)

Enable through the F5 Distributed Cloud Platform for comprehensive WAAP security.

Salesforce Commerce Cloud

Ensure seamless e-commerce security with the F5 connector for Salesforce Commerce Cloud (SFCC).

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BIG-IP

Easily integrate Distributed Cloud Bot Defense with BIG-IP through a native module or iApp.

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Custom architecture

Partner with F5 to deploy Distributed Cloud Bot Defense within your environment, whether on-premises, hybrid, or multi-cloud.

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Adobe Commerce

Ensure seamless e-commerce security with the F5 connector for Adobe Commerce.

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Amazon CloudFront CDN

Ensure seamless security with the F5 connector for Amazon CloudFront CDN.

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Cloudflare

Ensure seamless security with the F5 connector for Cloudflare.

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Core Capabilities

Distributed Cloud Bot Defense mitigates advanced persistent bots so that you can protect customers against financial losses and data privacy violations.

Connectors for easy deployment
Prebuilt integrations enable fast cloud and on-premises deployments.
ML and behavioral analytics
Advanced analytics provide maximum efficacy with near zero false positives.
Protection across APIs and web and mobile apps
Secure experience for customers wherever they interact.
Highly obfuscated clients
Advanced obfuscation prevents reverse engineering and bypassing signal collection.

Platform Support and Integrations

Integration with Syslog and Leading SIEM Systems

Security and fraud teams at industry-leading organizations rely on the rich signal data and inferences made by Distributed Cloud Bot Defense to drive threat analyses by integrating data feeds into leading SIEM systems in real-time or through cloud buckets.

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Azure Sentinel
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Awards and Recognition

Resources

FEATURED
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2025 Advanced Persistent Bots Report

In this in-depth research report, F5 Labs makes clear that bots do not stop targeting organizations that implement bot management controls, even when those controls are quite sophisticated. Rather, bots continuously evolve to bypass controls.

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