What types of crawler can be mitigated by Bot management?
Crawlers are automated software tools used for tasks like data collection and resource scraping. ESA bot protection uses deep learning and behavior analysis to detect and monitor crawler activities. ESA offers comprehensive crawler management for scenarios such as data aggregation, inventory monitoring, and price tracking, helping enterprises improve data processing efficiency and compliance.
What is the difference between Bot and WAF?
Bot management and Web Application Firewall (WAF) are two separate security systems. Each addresses specific security challenges using different methods. Bot management detects and controls automated requests, while WAF protects against web vulnerabilities and protocol-level attacks.
Bot management uses techniques such as behavior fingerprinting, rate limiting, and interactive authentication to identify and block malicious crawlers. This helps prevent unauthorized data collection, such as price and inventory scraping, and protects enterprise data and operations.
Will Bot management block legitimate crawler used for business operations?
Bot management uses both a built-in whitelist and a custom rule engine. You can add trusted crawlers to the whitelist or set custom allow policies. This ensures that essential crawlers are not blocked, while protection against malicious crawlers remains effective.
What is the Bot type "Likely Human" in my sampling logs?
ESA classifies requests that are more likely from humans than bots as Likely Human. These requests are normal browser requests from visitors, and the system will allow them by default. If you notice Likely Human requests with abnormal frequencies in the sampling logs, you can set block actions in the Rate limiting rules.
What does "Monitor" do? Will it block requests?
The Monitor action does not block requests; it only logs them. Rules with the action set to Monitor will not impact your business. You can review the logged events, such as request URI, User-Agent, and access frequency, to assess how well the rules detect normal and malicious traffic.