# Advanced Bot Protection Advanced Bot Protection safeguards websites, mobile apps, and APIs from today’s most sophisticated bot attacks—including all OWASP 21 Automated Threats—without sacrificing customer experience and maintaining business-critical traffic flow. ## Bot management as adaptable as the threat itself A bot management pioneer with more years of experience than any other vendor, Imperva leads the pack where it matters most, including detection models, good bot management, out-of-the-box and customizable responses, customizable reports and dashboards, and vision. ### Leading bot detection, management, and mitigation technology Multi-layered detection stops the most sophisticated automated threats with the fewest false positives, combining cutting-edge techniques with human expertise. Rigorous testing and feedback loops ensure precise, reliable detection and unparalleled accuracy. ### Granular controls, configuration, and reporting Rapidly adapt to evolving bot evasion techniques with real-time monitoring, in-depth reporting, and granular controls that enable real-time response. Explainable reporting enhances strategy optimization, false positive analysis, and policy creation. ### Industry expertise and vigilant service Access to expert bot analysts with unparalleled experience combating bad bots. From the set-up process through ongoing reviews, policy fine-tuning, alerting, and more—Imperva isn’t just a vendor, but your ally in the fight against bad bots. ## Imperva named a security leader in the SecureIQlab CyberRisk Report Imperva was named a security leader and achieved a perfect SecureIQLab WAAP Vulnerability Assessment score, earning a “Secure-by-Design” rating. ## How Advanced Bot Protection works Multi-layered approach to detect malicious bots, combining direct client interrogation, behavior analysis, machine learning (ML), connection characteristics, and threat intelligence feeds. This comprehensive approach lets us detect over 700 dimensions to separate between human, good, and bad bot traffic, creating a unique fingerprint that withstands even the most sophisticated evasion techniques. ## Relentless focus on efficacy Imperva’s detection capabilities provide unparalleled precision and accuracy in identifying malicious bots. They are backed by rigorous testing and validation against historical data and hundreds of browsers to ensure accuracy. Our post-deployment feedback loops and metadata replay help minimize false positives and negatives, ensuring that our detections are consistently precise and reliable. ## Adaptive protection for evolving threats Stay ahead of evolving threats with superior adaptability that goes beyond “risk scores”. Unlike black box solutions, our platform offers full visibility and granular tuning, allowing you to customize defenses to your specific needs. This transparency ensures higher efficacy, minimizes false positives, and enhances incident response capabilities. ## Real-time monitoring, in-depth reporting Analyze trending data across applications or in detail by path or rule. Identify targeted applications and paths, and optimize mitigation strategies. Imperva offers advanced reporting capabilities tailored to address organizations’ unique and varying needs. Leverage hundreds of unique dimensions to create customized dashboards and reports that meet your organization’s requirements. ## Confidence-boosting insights and real-time testing Advanced Bot Protection empowers customers with robust reporting and real-time testing tools. These provide a clear guide for policy creation, false positive analysis, and strategy refinement. Real-world testing in a production environment ensures accurate configurations and effective bot-blocking, giving customers confidence in their bot management strategy. ## Advanced Bot Protection Organizations can no longer afford to ignore bots. Most are not benign; they are abusing your business. Any functionality on your website is a potential target of malicious bots. Imperva Advanced Bot Protection protects from all OWASP Automated Threats. By blocking bad bots, Imperva helps reduce fraud and business abuse. ## Bots Outnumber Humans Online Automated threats are rising at an unprecedented rate, with bad bots now making up 37% of all internet traffic. AI is not only being used by attackers to create more advanced, evasive bots that target APIs, exploit business logic, and fuel fraud, but it is also lowering the barrier to entry for attackers resulting in an increase in volumes of simple bot attacks. The 2025 Bad Bot Report offers critical insights into the latest trends in automated attacks, revealing how bad bots are infiltrating industries, bypassing security measures, and disrupting digital ecosystems. ## Advanced Bot Protection FAQs - **We already use a Web Application Firewall (WAF) or DDoS protection. Why do we need Advanced Bot Protection?** It’s great that you’re already using WAF and DDoS protection. But while WAFs and DDoS protection are essential, they often focus on general traffic filtering and volumetric attacks. Advanced bots are more sophisticated and can mimic human behavior, making them difficult to detect with traditional tools. Advanced Bot Protection is designed to identify and mitigate these advanced bots that slip through other defenses, ensuring comprehensive protection for your online assets. - **How does this differ from CAPTCHA or rate-limiting?** CAPTCHAs and rate-limiting are basic tools that can stop some bot activity, but they’re often bypassed by sophisticated bots. Plus, they can frustrate legitimate users, leading to a poor user experience. Advanced Bot Protection goes beyond these methods by using behavioral analysis, device fingerprinting, and other advanced techniques to identify and block bots without disrupting your users. - **What if bots are not a significant issue for us?** Many businesses don’t realize the extent of bot traffic on their websites until they start monitoring it. Bots can perform a range of malicious activities, from scraping content and pricing data to account takeovers and skewing analytics. - **Will this block my legitimate users?** Advanced Bot Protection was designed with customer experience in mind, ensuring your legitimate users aren’t impacted in any way. Our solution uses advanced machine learning algorithms to accurately distinguish between bots and legitimate users, and stop the most sophisticated automated threats with the fewest false positives.