The Forrester New Wave™: Bot Management, Q1 2020 : The 13 Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up
The internet is flooded with automated traffic from sources such as search engines, virtual assistants, and chatbots. But running counter to this productive automated traffic are bad bots — software programs that malicious attackers use to automate their attacks.
1. Bot management tools must determine the intent of automated traffic in real-time to distinguish between good bots and bad bots.
2. Meanwhile, attackers can easily create, buy, and modify bots, so bot behavior, objectives, and sophistication levels vary greatly