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cloud.google.com·7h ago
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Cloudflare Blog·Aug 31·5 min read
Introducing Adaptive Intelligence: undermining the economics of every bot attack
TL;DR
Cloudflare has launched Adaptive Intelligence, a new bot detection engine designed to make attacks costly and slow, thereby deterring attackers. This approach shifts the focus from building impenetrable defenses to creating economic disincentives for bot attacks.
✦ Why It Matters
Evaluate your current bot detection strategies and consider integrating Adaptive Intelligence to enhance your defenses.
Key Takeaways
- Enable Auto Update Machine Learning for immediate Adaptive Intelligence benefits.
- Monitor bot score changes to assess the effectiveness of new detections.
- Utilize behavioral validation to enhance bot management strategies.
- Stay informed about emerging attack patterns to adjust defenses proactively.
How It Works
Adaptive Intelligence operates in a continuous loop of observing traffic, training on new data, deploying updated models, and validating their effectiveness. It aggregates various network signals and client-side telemetry to identify patterns indicative of bot activity.
By retraining on live traffic, it adapts to new attack techniques without waiting for scheduled updates. The engine generates disposable rules that are deployed and retired randomly, preventing attackers from exploiting static defenses.