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AppSec Made Easy: Proactive Bot Defense

Learn how to use the F5 Advanced Web Application Firewall to easily protect your applications against bots. Bots can be used as tools for a variety of attacks such as DoS, credential stuffing and bru...
Published May 03, 2018
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May 29, 2018

I've been playing with Proactive Bot Defense and want to know how to deal with a particular situation. I am needing to allow certain bots that has a valid signature that is categorized as a crawler. Is there a way to get specific bots to work without configuring IP exceptions?

 

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