Deep bot visibility and protection for today’s modern web

Fastly Bot Management

Stop bots, not innovation. Our solution eliminates fraud and abuse from automated attacks so you can focus on delivering amazing customer experiences.

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Benefits

Protect your apps and your competitive advantage

Unmanaged bot activity can negatively impact your bottom line and customer experiences. Fastly Bot Management quickly identifies and mitigates unwanted bot activity, protecting your applications against a variety of automated attacks.

Safeguard brand reputation

Don’t let unwanted bots slow down your sites. Our platform solution keeps wanted bots in and malicious automation out, leading to faster load times, reduced server strain, safer customer information, and lower user friction. Focus on delivering a smooth user experience without sacrificing security.

Reduce fraud and resource abuse

We deliver powerful protection against malicious bots that scrape data, launch attacks, and enable fraudulent activity across your enterprise. Precise bot classification and robust controls help teams save on excessive chargebacks, overhead expenses, and origin costs.

Simplify management

Built for ease of use, our solution’s intuitive controls and minimal configuration make it easy to manage bots from a single platform experience. Developer-friendly features integrate seamlessly with existing workflows, and resource-strained teams can utilize our Managed Security Service to empower your IT and security team further.

Features

Powerful features for holistic bot protection

Fastly Bot Management offers a comprehensive suite of features designed to empower you to take control of your bot traffic. Our solution provides intelligent detection and effective mitigation strategies, enabling you to find the perfect balance between security and its impact on user experience

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Intelligent bot detection

Fastly's advanced bot classification gives you deep visibility into your bot traffic. It continuously updates a list of verified bots, analyzes server-side signals, and monitors client-side behavior to accurately distinguish between legitimate users, benign bots, and malicious ones. This helps catch even the most sophisticated bots, reduces false positives, and ensures you can confidently decide which bots to allow or block.

Comprehensive bot mitigation

Fastly Bot Management takes decisive action to neutralize bot threats. It employs a multi-layered approach that combines adaptive measures like Dynamic Challenges with customizable rules, rate limiting, and IP blocking. This approach effectively stops malicious bots in their tracks, preventing attacks before they occur and safeguarding your resources for real users.

Real-time visibility and control

Fastly provides real-time insights into bot activity with an intuitive dashboard that displays comprehensive analytics and drill-downs that allow you to track trends, identify emerging threats, and fine-tune your security settings for optimal protection. Additionally, Fastly empowers you to customize your security strategy by creating allow/disallow lists, whitelists, blacklists, and custom rules, ensuring your bot management strategy aligns perfectly with your organization's specific needs.

Threat Coverage

Protection against bot attacks

Account Takeover

Fraudulently accessing and taking control of a victim’s online account via attacks like credential stuffing

Account Creation Abuse

Creating and controlling bulk user accounts for fraudulent activity, such as spam, cash laundering, and more

DDoS

Compromising application availability with an overwhelming amount of requests

Vulnerability Scanning

Deploying automated scripts that scan applications for vulnerabilities

Credit Card Fraud

Using stolen credit card data to validate card information or make fraudulent purchases

Form Spam

Submitting online forms to affect data collection (betting odds, polls, app metrics) or as an attack vector, like SQL injection

Le Monde blocks attacks, improves TTFB with Fastly

Streaming Media

“Fastly's new Bot Management solution provides granular visibility and rule setting capability to let the good traffic in and keep the bad traffic out, which will help us protect our content and reduce infrastructure costs.”

Paul Laleu

CTO

Analyst reports

Recognized Leaders

Gartner Peer Insights Customer’s Choice Awards 2023

Learn why Fastly is the only WAAP vendor to receive the Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice distinction for five years in a row.

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The Future of Internet Security

Learn more about Fastly's security strategy and how it shapes our current and future products.

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Securing a Modern Online Experience that Demands Performance and Value

Learn how the next generation of application security vendors have adapted to the overcome the shortfalls of legacy WAFs.

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Product Capabilities

What Sets Fastly Apart

Fastly’s Edge Cloud Platform powers a simple, performant, and developer-friendly approach to bot management.

The Fastly Edge Cloud Platform centralizes application and delivery services into a single solution, empowering organizations to build amazing customer experiences.

Our intuitive interface provides the power and flexibility to easily configure rules, so you can block attacks in hours, not days or weeks. Maintain low opex with limited maintenance and overhead costs.

Reduce false positives without regex tuning with SmartParse, our patented detection technology. Customers also gain preemptive protection with our Network Learning Exchange (NLX) IP reputation feed.

Built with developers and practitioners in mind, Fastly integrates into your development lifecycle with DevOps and security toolchains.

Edge Cloud Advantage