Mar 27, 2026 - For details about updated CVE-2025-53521 (BIG-IP APM vulnerability), refer to K000156741.

Proactive Bot Defense Using BIG-IP ASM

Bots are everywhere.  Some of them are nice, desirable bots; but many of them are not.  By definition, a bot is a software application that runs automated tasks (scripts) over the Internet.  The desi...
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Jan 21, 2018

@John I know this thread is a little bit old for a new question but I found it fits well with questions about Proactive Bot Defense.

 

I tried to understand this option: Block requests from suspicious browsers

 

So... what's a suspicious browser on earth? Does asm check user-agent header to differentiate a suspicious browser with a good one? And what is "highly suspicious browser" and "moderately suspicious browser" ?

 

I tried to running a test based on this feature but unfortunately can't find a way/tool to do that. Could you please advise any method can be used to test this feature?

 

Thanks again for the sharing. That makes devcentral a really good place!