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How to Block Good BOTS traffic
By
Ankit SHARMA
posted
07-17-2023 15:49
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Imperva recommendation
When you Unselect a
Good bot
from a good bot list, the request from those good bots will be treated like a regular request which means it
may or may not be blocked
.
To categorize further on the request level in terms of
bot categories or type of bots
then configure the
WAF log integration
to your SIEM solution.
(https://docs.imperva.com/bundle/cloud-application-security/page/settings/client-classification.htm)
If you do not suspect customers to come from a particular
client type
then you can present those
client types with Captcha to restrict only human traffic
.
Enabling the "
Require all other suspected bots to pass additional challenges
"
#CloudWAF(formerlyIncapsula)
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