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...
Updated Jun 06, 2023
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ASM Advanced WAF
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Mar 07, 2019

Hi John,

 

It would be great if you could write updated version, as far as I know in 14+ PBD went through major overhaul and at last interface wise it it's very different. Friend of mine is really struggling to figure out this new incarnation. He as well reported that a lot of testing and manual tunning is still necessary as PBD seems to be very aggressive in default config and can block plenty of legitimate users from accessing site. One example is enabling Developer Tools in browser - the requests are immediately blocked (I can't recall which signature is responsible). Seems as well that after update old PBD is converted to new profile, after conversion practically everything is blocked.

 

Piotr