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
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
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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.”
Fastly Bot Management won a 2025 DEVIES Award in the AppSecOps category. The DEVIES Awards are the definitive annual awards for the software-industry recognizing outstanding design, engineering, and innovation in developer technology across 31 categories.
Discover how Fastly's web application and API protection (WAAP) solutions delivered a 235% ROI and $4.23M in net benefits over three years.
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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.
Edge Cloud Advantage
The Fastly Edge Cloud Platform centralizes application and delivery services into a single solution, empowering organizations to build amazing customer experiences.
Simple
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.
Performant
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.
Developer Friendly
Built with developers and practitioners in mind, Fastly integrates into your development lifecycle with DevOps and security toolchains.
See how Fastly's Bot Management targets and controls malicious bots to protect your apps and website for a better user experience. Learn more about our bot management capabilities.
Fastly's Bot Management product provides you with visibility into bot traffic, allowing you to identify bots and automations directly at Fastly's network edge, closer to where requests arrive and further away from your application layer.
