Recently, Forrester, a globally renowned research and advisory firm, released the report "The Bot And Agent Trust Management Software Landscape, Q4 2025." Alibaba Cloud Web Application Firewall has been named a Notable Vendor.
Modern enterprise applications are under intensifying siege from sophisticated automated attacks that have evolved beyond simple resource exhaustion to target business logic manipulation. A primary catalyst behind this escalating threat landscape is the rapid rise of AI-powered crawlers. These intelligent bots leverage artificial intelligence to mimic human behavior with increasing fidelity, continuously refining their ability to bypass legacy defenses—such as CAPTCHA and static device fingerprinting—to harvest data at scale. Beyond enabling large-scale data theft, the massive traffic generated by AI crawlers can trigger DDoS-like conditions, leading to application latency, soaring infrastructure costs, and significant risks to intellectual property and data governance.
The Forrester report states that Bot and Agent Trust Management Software “helps organizations identify and understand the intent behind automated traffic, ensuring real customers can transact seamlessly while deflecting bot- and agent-based attacks.” Alibaba Cloud’s WAF goes beyond conventional blocking by harnessing the synergy between advanced bot management and large language model (LLM) technologies. By deciphering the underlying intent of AI-driven traffic, it effectively neutralizes malicious activity while guaranteeing high availability for legitimate human users and authorized AI agents.
Alibaba Cloud envisions bot management evolving into an adaptive “Digital Immune System”—one infused with native business intelligence. To realize this vision, Alibaba Cloud Bot is pioneering intelligent rule recommendation engines that combine deep insights into business logic with precise identification of AI crawler attack intent.
By synthesizing multi-dimensional telemetry—including traffic patterns, device fingerprints, and behavioral heuristics—the system constructs a dual-layered “Business + Intent” profile. This framework enables the dynamic generation of context-aware security policies, deployable with one-click enforcement. Through a comprehensive “Sense–Decide–Execute” closed-loop architecture, Alibaba Cloud delivers a personalized, one-to-one intelligent defense model, empowering enterprises to stay ahead of increasingly sophisticated, automated threats.
● Comprehensive Endpoint Coverage: Supports full-stack integration across Web, App, and Mini-programs, eliminating the risk of defense bypass due to incomplete endpoint coverage.
● Open and Flexible Policy Configuration Framework: Comes equipped with a rich library of built-in rules and supports custom strategies, offering flexible responses to diverse bot attacks.
● Low-Frequency, Long-Cycle Statistics: Utilizes long-term behavioral analysis to accurately identify stealthy attack intent, overcoming the limitations of traditional frequency-based detection.
● Dynamic Rotation of Confidential Algorithms: Employs dynamically updated challenge algorithms to effectively defend against algorithm cracking and bulk simulated attacks.
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