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dbaimakov
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Jul 04, 2023
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BoT Defense Profile, Signature Enforcement

Recently, I implemented a BoT Defense/logging profile in transparent mode, expecting the profile to "learn" from the traffic generated by bots. During the initial "learning mode period," I hoped the ...
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  • dbaimakov's avatar
    dbaimakov
    Jul 11, 2023

    Thank you everyone for your input, the issue seems to have resolved itself, the signagures must not have been staged long enough I suppose. 

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whisperer
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Jul 05, 2023

You can sign up to revieve email alerts when new bot signatures are available. You can also set to auto-update (or not). Please see the following:

https://techdocs.f5.com/en-us/bigip-14-1-0/big-ip-asm-attack-and-bot-signatures-14-1-0/updating-attack-and-bot-signatures.html

That would at least help validate the frequency of updates, and if you are missing one.

By default, signatures are staged and log a match. You would need to set them to enforce to actually block.

https://techdocs.f5.com/en-us/bigip-14-1-0/big-ip-asm-attack-and-bot-signatures-14-1-0/assigning-bot-signatures-to-security-policies.html

Hope this helps a bit.