Implement F5 Bot Defense with ease in Mobile Apps with Promon SDK Integrator

While there are many legitimate uses for bots—customer support chats, search engine crawlers, and any number of single-task automata—these little computer programs are just as often used for more sinister purposes. Bots are cheap and simple means for attempting to infect user devices or IoT (Internet of Things) systems to take control of their resources, attempting to steal identity information to take over accounts, or even trying to outright steal digital content.

Today, malicious bots are launched in droves to attack our mobile devices and apps where most of our online activity happens. Unfortunately for developers of mobile apps, many techniques used by traditional bot-defense solutions are not supported by native mobile apps. As a result, if developers do not take precautions, their back-end mobile API components can be exposed to automated attacks such as content scraping, denial of service (DOS), credential stuffing, fake account creation, and a host of others.

Battling mobile bots is precisely why the F5 Bot Defense Mobile SDK was created. This SDK extends the robust bot-protection capabilities of F5 Bot Defense to mobile applications in order to defend against bots, vulnerability scanners, content scraping, and other automated attack vectors. F5 Bot Defense determines in real-time if an application request is from a non-human automated source and then takes an enterprise-specified action, such as blocking, redirecting, or flagging the request. This powerful solution is designed to block nefarious bot traffic before it reaches your application servers and data.

1. No coding required to integrate F5 Bot Defense Mobile SDK
2. Quick integration within minutes
3. Everything can run locally without dependencies on any 3rd party services
4. Can be part of the app's CI/CD pipeline
5. Easy to upgrade to Promon SHIELD features (if desired)

• Stop bot traffic in its tracks: Up to 90 percent or more of online and mobile traffic can actually be automated bots, not real humans. F5 Bot Defense leverages artificial intelligence and machine learning to accurately determine in real-time if an application request is from a fraudulent source, and if so, effectively mitigate. F5 Bot Defense solutions adapt and maintain full efficacy even as attackers evolve.
• Protect what’s important: F5 Bot Defense and Promon secure your most valued mobile assets—your applications and sensitive data—from bots, automated attacks, web scrapers, and exploits.
• Rapidly deliver mobile bot detection: Enterprise mobile security and e-commerce departments can implement critical solutions without taxing scarce mobile development resources. Because the Promon integration tool is simple to use and does not involve coding, enterprises can fast-track their bot protection initiatives by implementing F5 Bot Defense Mobile SDK instantly, enabling rapid deployment of advanced mobile security solutions without complex development or installation process.
• Enjoy a consistent experience across platforms: The Promon integration tool is cross-platform and framework independent. Bot protection can be added to iOS and Android apps without additional effort and with consistent experience across platforms. It works with any app, created in any framework, with no modifications or plugins.
• Take advantage of multi-service implementations: With the Promon integration tool, users can implement multiple services or SDKs simultaneously to the same app. This enables you to implement layered defenses covering a wide array of mobile attack vectors by integrating both Promon SHIELD and F5 Bot Defense Mobile SDK to achieve a comprehensive mobile security solution in minutes.

A Mobile app is a prime target for attack because it is so ubiquitous and has been traditionally difficult to secure. Software Development Kits (SDKs) such as the F5 Bot Defense Mobile SDK eliminate that difficulty and enable app developers to quickly integrate critical security features into their code—without having to write additional code themselves.

Promon’s self-service, no-code integration platform allows anyone to complete the integration of powerful mobile services, standards, vendors, SDKs and APIs in security, authentication, access, mobility, mobile threat, analytics and more. For F5 customers, this means you can leverage your existing investment in bot-protection to benefit your Android and iOS apps as well.

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