Bot Management and Security Services

Based on rich client-side signals–behavioral, network, and environmental, F5 inspects traffic for bots, aggregators, and other anomalies that put the security of your organization and its customers at risk.

Bot Management That Adapts Faster Than Criminals Retool

Based on rich signal collection, F5 uses AI to analyze massive traffic volumes to rapidly discover attacker retooling. The bot management services are built on a flexible application deployment and security platform that meets the needs of enterprises to secure any application and API anywhere.

Leveraging the bot management services and other security capabilities in the platform, enterprises can partner with F5’s security services team to solve the most advanced security challenges.

Different Ways to Deploy Your Bot Management Solutions

F5 provides multiple options for you to direct your traffic to the Bot Defense service and configure how to handle traffic that originates from bots. F5 BIG-IP provides a native module for configuring traffic to route to Bot Defense, regardless of how BIG-IP is deployed in your network. Your organization could also choose to direct traffic to Bot Defense from Distributed Cloud.

DEPLOYMENT OPTIONS

On-premises (Hardware)

Address the most demanding on-premises deployments where web app security is mission critical, on fully automatable architecture.
Consider: BIG-IP Connector for Bot-Defense

Managed Service

A perfect option for a fast, easy way to deploy Bot Defense as SaaS in front of your apps.
Consider: Managed Services

Products

Bot Defense
Mitigate malicious bots that cause financial harm to your enterprise and customers
Data Intelligence
Gain rich insights on anomalies that indicate fraud and user friction
Aggregator Management
Manage aggregators to ensure compliance with terms of use

Resources

Featured

F5 Named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape

How Bots Attack Large Language Models: The OWASP LLM Top 10

Adversaries nearly always use bots in one form or another to scale cyberattacks against LLMs, so mitigating bots removes an important tool from the cybercriminal.

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Blogs

How a Sneaker Bot Earned $2M Profit from One Shoe Drop ›

Data Privacy Requires Protection against Credential Stuffing ›

Now is the Time to Reevaluate Your Bot Countermeasures ›

Generative AI Security and Unauthorized Content Scraping Protection ›

Addressing the OWASP Top Ten API Vulnerabilities ›

Analyst reports

F5 Bot Defense Named a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave™ ›

Aite Matrix: Leading Bot Detection and Management Providers™ ›

F5 Labs research reports

2025 Advanced Persistent Bots Report ›

Black Friday Versus the Bots ›

How to Identify and Stop Scrapers ›

Webinars

You Can’t Spell API Security without Bot Defense ›

Smart Bots and Al Assisted Attacks: Are you ready? ›

Bots Cheat to Win How automated fraudsters tried to ruin a restaurant’s promotional contest. ›

Technical articles, demos, and learning resources

OWASP Automated Threats to Web Applications ›

Why Bot Defense is critical to API Security ›

Next Steps

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