From securityboulevard.com
The need for bot management is fueled by the rise in automated attacks. In the early days, the use of bots was limited to small scraping attempts or spamming. Today, things are vastly different. Bots are being used to take over user accounts, perform DDoS attacks, abuse APIs, scrape unique content and pricing information and more. In its “Hype Cycle for Application Security 2018,” Gartner mentioned bot management at the peak of inflated expectations under the high benefit category.