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Fastly Empowers Organizations to Prioritize Security Without Disrupting End-User Experiences
Latest Fastly Bot Management update reduces CAPTCHA reliance, enhances bot detection, and highlights compromised credentials SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nLatest Fastly Bot Management update reduces CAPTCHA reliance, enhances bot detection, and highlights compromised credentials\n\n SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nFastly, Inc. (NYSE: FSLY), a leader in global edge cloud platforms, today announced a new update to Fastly Bot Management, delivering three key features that help organizations defend against scraping, account takeovers, and spam. For too long, websites have relied on frustrating CAPTCHAs to combat these threats, leading to poor user experiences and lost conversions. Fastly’s update gives organizations the chance to break free from the CAPTCHA cycle while helping to prevent fraud, protect customer accounts, and allow legitimate users to complete logins and checkouts without disruption.\n\nTraditional security solutions often force users to endure tedious interactive challenges like CAPTCHAs to stop threats like account takeovers, fraudulent transactions, data scraping, and spam abuse. These measures not only disrupt the user experience, but can also drive customers away. Fastly’s new Dynamic Challenges, Advanced Client-Side Detection, and Compromised Credential Checking capabilities help organizations eliminate that trade-off, enabling them to stop even the most evasive bots without creating unnecessary friction for paying customers and legitimate users.\n\n“Security teams shouldn’t have to choose between blocking malicious bots and frustrating customers,” said Kip Compton, Chief Product Officer at Fastly. “This update allows users to move freely, while bad actors get stopped in their tracks.”\n\nFastly Bot Management Feature Updates\n\n\nDynamic Challenges fine-tunes how organizations validate traffic without relying on CAPTCHAs. Using real-time analysis of client and server-side characteristics, Fastly applies the least intrusive verification method for legitimate users while increasing difficulty for bots. Users verified via Private Access Tokens (PATs) experience a seamless, challenge-free login. Known bots receive the most difficult interactive challenges, while all other traffic undergoes non-interactive verification to maintain security without disrupting users. By automatically adjusting protections, Dynamic Challenges prevents security teams from having to choose between blocking threats and preserving the end-user experience.\n\n\nAdvanced Client-Side Detec...