Cloudflare Bot Management
Stop bad bots by leveraging smart data
Undetected malicious bots can damage your brand, steal sensitive information, take over accounts, and negatively impact your revenue.
Now you can manage good and bad bots in real-time with speed and accuracy by harnessing the data from Cloudflare’s more than 20 million Internet properties.
All with one click.
CEO
The Cloudflare Difference
Smart Data
Learns from traffic to more than 20 million Internet properties around the world. Applies machine learning and behavioral analysis to accurately and proactively identify bots.
Integrated
Integrates seamlessly with Cloudflare's DDoS, WAF, and CDN to ensure complete protection without sacrificing speed.
Complete without Complexity
Protects against a full range of bot attacks with a single click. No Javascript injection required.
We Stop Bots
Credential Stuffing
Exposes your application to account takeovers and breaches of sensitive customer data
Content Scraping
Hurts your site's SEO ranking and increases margin pressures from competitors
Content Spam
Pollutes your data and creates a bad customer experience with malicious content
Inventory Hoarding
Damages your brand and jeopardizes your relationship with suppliers
Credit Card Stuffing
Puts your ability to accept payments at risk
Application DDoS
Slows sites for visitors while wasting bandwidth and compute resources
Detection Methods
Machine Learning
Cloudflare’s Machine Learning trains on a curated subset of hundreds of billions of requests per day across 20 million Internet properties to create a reliable bot score for every request.
Behavioral Analysis
Cloudflare analyzes behavior and detects anomalies in your Internet property's specific traffic, scoring every request by how different it is from the baseline.
Automatic Whitelists
Cloudflare allows good bots, such as those belonging to search engines, to keep reaching your site while preventing malicious traffic.
Mobile Application Endpoint Protection
Cloudflare protects your mobile applications from impersonation and emulation attacks.
Manager, Security Engineering
One-Click Deployment
With a single click, deploy a fast and accurate bot management solution without complex configuration or maintenance. Cloudflare Bot Management will automatically recommend rules that leverage machine learning and behavioral analysis to manage bots out-of-the-box. No instrumentation with third-party JavaScript required.
Rich Analytics and Logs
Improve your security posture through insights from viewing time-series graphs with drill-downs. Create your own dashboards that correlate bot management traffic logs with your other data sources by using third-party tools such as SIEMs or business intelligence applications.
Control and Configurability
Tune bot management rules to fit your specific needs by scoping them based on path or URI pattern, request method, score sensitivities, and mitigation methods, such as log, CAPTCHA, or block. Use a visual rule builder or write your own pattern-matching rules.
Key Features
One-click deployment
Time-series analytics into attack trends
User-agent agnostic behavioral analysis
User-defined sensitivities for identifying bot requests
User-defined mitigations, including log, CAPTCHA, and block
Configurable bot management rules based on path, URI, cookie, and user agent string
Mobile application endpoint protection
Seamless integration with Cloudflare DDoS, WAF, and CDN
JavaScript injection not required
Automatically updated whitelist of good bots
Machine learning on high volume of diverse data
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