Top 7 Selection Criteria for Automated Bot Prevention Solutions

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

Why Isn’t CAPTCHA Dead Yet?

The team at AltaVista (RIP) invented the CAPTCHA in 1997. At the time, it was a groundbreaking solution to a niche problem: preventing bots from entering URLs into the web search engine. Fast forward to 2021, and there are more than 20 different CAPTCH… Continue reading Why Isn’t CAPTCHA Dead Yet?

Why Isn’t CAPTCHA Dead Yet?

The team at AltaVista (RIP) invented the CAPTCHA in 1997. At the time, it was a groundbreaking solution to a niche problem: preventing bots from entering URLs into the web search engine. Fast forward to 2021, and there are more than 20 different CAPTCH… Continue reading Why Isn’t CAPTCHA Dead Yet?

Behind the Scenes: The Journey to Defensive Security & Kasada v2

We’ve been on a journey to rebuild a defensive security solution against highly skilled, motivated, and persistent adversaries. Our new v2 platform development has been years in the making. Over this time, we’ve focused on adversarial thinking in all p… Continue reading Behind the Scenes: The Journey to Defensive Security & Kasada v2

Reality Check: Automated Shopping Bots are a Business Problem

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

Build vs. Buy — Bot Prevention Decision

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

Tales from the Front Lines: Retailer Prepares for Holiday Bot Battle in a Matter of Weeks

Following on the retail win posted previously, this week’s win is a clothing and home décor retailer that had an account takeover/credential validation challenge that their incumbent solution was unable to address. Bad actors were targeting APIs suppor… Continue reading Tales from the Front Lines: Retailer Prepares for Holiday Bot Battle in a Matter of Weeks

Top 5 Essential Features of Effective Cybersecurity for Web Apps

There’s hardly any business nowadays that don’t use computers and connect to the Internet. Companies maintain an online presence through their official websites, blogs, and social media pages.

People use online services to conduct day to day activitie… Continue reading Top 5 Essential Features of Effective Cybersecurity for Web Apps