Edgio';s Advanced Bot Management Leverages Platform’s Extensive Threat Intelligence, Enhances Multi-layer Security Portfolio

Rhea-AI Summary

Edgio has launched its new Advanced Bot Management solution, designed to effectively detect and mitigate malicious bot traffic. This solution utilizes machine learning for real-time identification of bots through behavior and signature analysis. Reportedly, bad bots account for a significant portion of internet traffic, making effective management crucial for online businesses. Key features include agentless integration, custom policy controls, and compatibility with various infrastructures. Furthermore, the pricing model is based on management policies, not traffic volume, which enhances cost-effectiveness during attacks. The launch follows significant growth in Edgio's security team and aims to optimize performance while ensuring security.

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• Launch of Advanced Bot Management solution enhances security offerings.
• Utilizes machine learning for real-time detection of bot threats.
• Agentless solution allows for easy deployment and integration.
• Predictable pricing model based on policies, not traffic volume.

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• None.

Low-latency edge solution accurately detects and mitigates evolving bot threats using machine learning

PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Edgio, the platform of choice for speed, security, and simplicity at the edge, today announced availability of their new Advanced Bot Management solution that proactively mitigates a wide range of evolving malicious bots while providing observability into good bots. Leveraging massive amounts of data continuously drawn from the platform’s extensive global deployment, Advanced Bot Manager applies machine learning to detect bots based on both signature and behavioral fingerprinting. The solution runs natively on every server across the entire Edgio global network to inspect all traffic for bots in real time.

Leading analyst firm Forrester says about the bot problem, “Bad bots continue to consume resources and overwhelm organizations, accounting for at least a quarter of all internet traffic.” That said, proper bot management is critical to any online business or organization with internet-facing applications. Edgio’s threat research and data science teams built the solution to mitigate a wide range of prevalent bot attacks, including account takeover (ATO), credential stuffing, fake account creation, gift card fraud, inventory scalping, scraping, application DDoS and more.

The solution is easily deployed in minutes and eliminates the need for code changes, SDK integrations or JavaScript injections that add complexity and impact user experience. It is infrastructure and network agnostic, giving customers complete freedom to easily integrate with their cloud, hybrid cloud or on-premises infrastructure. In addition, the Edgio Advanced Bot Manager agentless solution protects both web and mobile apps as well as API endpoints against all bot attacks.

Key Features include:

• Machine-learning bot detection - Through its patent-pending machine-learning decision engine, Edgio’s Advanced Bot Management uses signature and behavioral models to distinguish between good bots – SEO or monitoring bot, etc. – and bad bots. By applying scores to bad bots, Advanced Bot Manager enables security teams to create advanced policies and set various mitigating actions based on different bot score thresholds.
• Supports granular policy controls – Highly configurable, Edgio Advanced Bot Manager supports multiple actions including alert (log only), block, browser challenge, CAPTCHA, redirect and custom responses to respond to bot traffic. The solution also offers users the ability to create allowlists based on URL, user-agent, TLS fingerprints, cookie and more, as well as customized bot signatures for sophisticated attacks.
• Integrated component of multi-layered security - Built natively as part of Edgio Web Application and API Protection (WAAP), it detects and mitigates attacks at the edge with higher performance and efficacy. Being part of the WAAP protection layers, the Advanced Bot Manager provides great synergies on top of existing Access Control, Rate Limiting, Custom Virtual Patching and Managed Rule Set to provide holistic protection against all web security vulnerabilities. The entire solution can be set up and deployed in less than five minutes.

Advanced Bot Management provides a simple and predictable pricing model based on the number of bot management policies, not on request volume or traffic. Therefore, the cost does not increase as a customer is getting attacked. The solution is an integral component of Edgio’s multi-layered security portfolio, which includes Web Application & API Protection (WAAP), DDoS Protection, Origin Shield, Authoritative DNS, and TLS Encryption for comprehensive web security.

“The new capabilities we are announcing today build on our acquisition of Edgecast and the 3X growth of our security engineering team to provide best-in-class bot management capabilities with minimal complexity and maximum cost-effectiveness,” said Ajay Kapur, CTO and General Manager, Applications, at Edgio. “By building these innovative new features directly into the platform, instead of routing traffic out of the network or leveraging third-party solutions, we help ensure that our customers’ applications achieve maximum performance while still remaining secure.”

About Edgio

Edgio (NASDAQ: EGIO) helps companies deliver online experiences and content faster, safer, and with more control. Our developer-friendly, globally scaled edge network, combined with our fully integrated application and media solutions, provide a single platform for the delivery of high-performing, secure web properties and streaming content. Through this fully integrated platform and end-to-end edge services, companies can deliver content quicker and more securely, boosting overall revenue and business value. To learn more, visit edg.io and follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.

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FAQ

What is Edgio's new Advanced Bot Management solution?

It is a security solution that detects and mitigates various malicious bot activities using machine learning.

How does Edgio's Advanced Bot Management work?

The solution leverages behavioral and signature analysis to identify bots and operates in real-time on Edgio's global network.

What features does the Advanced Bot Management solution offer?

Key features include machine-learning detection, customizable policy controls, and integration with existing security frameworks.

What is the significance of bad bots in internet traffic?

Bad bots account for at least a quarter of all internet traffic, posing risks to organizations.

How is the pricing structured for Edgio's Advanced Bot Management?

The pricing is based on the number of bot management policies rather than traffic volume, making it cost-effective during attacks.