Bot threat intelligence provides information about suspicious IP addresses used by dialers, on-premises data centers, and malicious scanners. This function also maintains an IP address library of malicious crawlers and prevents crawlers from accessing all pages under your domain name or specific directories.
Prerequisites
- A WAF instance is purchased. The instance must meet the following requirements:
- The instance is billed on a subscription basis.
- Bot Management is enabled. This feature is a value-added service.
For more information, see Purchase a WAF instance.
- Your website is added to WAF. For more information, see Add websites.
Background information
You can set a bot threat intelligence rule that chooses different actions to manage different requests based on the type of the threat intelligence library. For example, you can set a rule that blocks certain requests, or requires JavaScript verification or CAPTCHA verification to verify certain requests. You can also use a bot threat intelligence rule to protect important endpoints against certain threats. This helps you minimize the negative impacts on the services.