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How to Ensure Long-Term Protection Against Today’s Evolving Automated Attacks Today, bots are becoming more than just a security threat. Their contributions to very real lost revenue and customer dissatisfaction are now getting noticed in the boardroom… Continue reading Top 7 Selection Criteria for Automated Bot Prevention Solutions
Retailers, shoppers and threat actors alike are preparing for the big day: Amazon Prime Day, when there are retail sales opportunities to be had as retailers run their own sale event to compete with, or leverage the public visibility of the day. There … Continue reading Enabling Retail Deals and Repelling the “Steals”
Whether they are participating in it or competing against it, retailers worldwide are preparing for Amazon Prime Day. No doubt threat actors are doing the same, choosing their targets, assembling the tools and infrastructure to execute their automated … Continue reading Anatomy of a Retail Shopping Bot
If you grew up in the 80s like I did, you probably remember watching Michael Jordan dominate the basketball court for the Chicago Bulls. I spent many evenings with my family watching him fly high through the air, hanging from the rim and winning countl… Continue reading How This Cool Sneakerhead Mom Beat the Bots
Change is the one constant in the business world. For most organizations, change often results from market shifts or disruptive technology. Make no mistake, however, the pandemic of 2020 has been a change catalyst. COVID-19 has accelerated digital tran… Continue reading Pandemic Unmasks Vulnerability to Automated Bot Attacks
Lending support to the business impact of bots we discussed in a webinar a few weeks ago, Google has released the results of a survey performed by Forrester, further quantifying the true impact malicious bots have on an organization. Driven by a global… Continue reading When “Good Enough” Bot Protection Negatively Impacts the Bottom Line
Last week, I had the pleasure of participating in a webinar on automated shopping bots with Sandy Carielli, Security and Risk Analyst at Forrester Research. The webinar highlighted two things for me: automated shopping bots are a complex problem and th… Continue reading Reality Check: Automated Shopping Bots are a Business Problem
Recently, we had several prospective customers tell us that they have created their own bot mitigation solution and it was working for them. Without an opportunity to see their solution in operation and the results, we have to believe them. Building yo… Continue reading Build vs. Buy — Bot Prevention Decision
As an innovator, software is always the first thing I think about when addressing a problem. But, in a recent blog about shopping bots and the holiday season, Sandy Carielli at Forrester reminded me that you’ve got to think about holistic solutions – c… Continue reading Technology & Collaboration: The Winning Formula to Defeat Shopping Bots
We are fast approaching the end of 2020. A year that was different in many ways due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the impacts on retail were no exception. There has been widespread coverage of retail strategies to survive as physical stores remain clos… Continue reading Bot-as-a-Service: The Consumerization of Botting