Nearly half of internet traffic identified by Imperva isn’t human; it’s bots, and most are up to no good. Here’s what they’re doing and how you can identify them and fight back…
Let’s start by stating that not all bots are bad. After all, Google’s search engine web crawlers make indexing your new web pages possible. But when “bad bots” engage in automated attacks against websites and/or APIs to steal, damage, and defraud businesses and consumers, then it becomes a huge problem that must be dealt with ASAP.
Just how big of an issue are these bots? Imperva’s 2024 Bad Bot Report data, which focuses on OSI Model layer 7 (i.e., application layer) bad bot activity, shows that nearly half of the internet traffic observed via the company’s global network in 2023 stemmed from automated (i.e., non-human) sources. Bad bots represented nearly one-third of that traffic.
When we’re talking about nearly 6 trillion blocked bad bot requests in that period alone, it’s easy to see why they’re considered a significant threat. If each bad bot request counted as a separate second, those bad bot requests would add up to more than 189,000 years!
Knowing this, it’s time to explore the threats bad bots pose to organizations globally and what you can do to stop them.
Let’s hash it out.
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