Can You ‘Bot Proof’ Your Applications and APIs?

2 years ago thenewstack.io

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When you’re coding an application or API, your intended user is probably a human. One specific type of automated traffic, bots, are software applications that execute repetitive tasks.

An audit trail maintains a record of all user activity on a specific application or even API.

Year over year, the proportion of human traffic across the internet declines and is replaced with automated bot traffic.

By implementing a dedicated bot solution that is capable of monitoring and detecting traffic anomalies without impacting legitimate human users, developers can spend more time writing code and less time inspecting apps or APIs for potential bot activity.

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