At the first Structure Security event in San Francisco in September, Distil Presented a talk titled “Are bot operators eating your lunch? High risk lessons from OWASP Top 20 automated threats. A new way to think about Web Security.”
This presentation examined how bots are abusing websites and explored the following:
- What are the behaviors of bad bots?
- Research into how bots are evasive and behaving more like humans
- Understanding the OWASP Automated Threats
- Detailing why Web Application Firewall’s (WAF) are not built to prevent bots
- Real-life case studies about web scraping, vulnerability scanning, credential cracking and stuffing (aka. Account takeover)
- How identifying a bot begins with a hi-def fingerprint
- The benefits of an inline technology in mitigating bots
Watch the full presentation by Edward Roberts below
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