Get Started with Bot Defense Advanced
Bot Defense Advanced protects your web and mobile application endpoints from automated attacks by identifying and mitigating malicious or bad bots. For more information about Bot Defense Advanced features, see Bot Defense Overview.
Important: Bot Defense Advanced Self-Service Policy Management is a beta feature.
The following information helps you get started with Bot Defense Advanced.
Step 1: Sign Up for Bot Defense Advanced
To enable Bot Defense Advanced, contact your F5 Technical Account Manager (TAM). Once enabled, your TAM and the F5 Services team help you quickly get the Bot Defense system configured to protect your applications from automated attacks, such as credential stuffing, denial of service, web scraping and so on.
As your applications change and you add new endpoints to your environment, contact your TAM for assistance.
Step 2: Decide What You Want to Protect
You must decide which endpoints you want to protect with Bot Defense. For information about what to consider when configuring web and mobile endpoints, see the following information:
Step 3: Configure Your Bot Policies
Bot Defense Advanced provides three system policies that allow you to control system configuration settings:
The F5 Operations team performs a site analysis and creates the initial version of each policy and then works with you to deploy the policies in your Bot Infrastructure.
You work with that same team to make and deploy any necessary changes to your policies, for example, to protect new endpoints, update mitigation actions, add new clients to the allowlist or to add new network routes.
Use the Distributed Cloud Console to view information about your deployed policies, including details of current and past policy versions.
Step 4: Test Your Configuration
Use the Test cluster provided to you by F5 to test your Bot Defense deployment and help ensure that Bot Defense policies are properly configured, that JavaScript tags are injected in your application pages correctly, or that you have correctly integrated the mobile SDK.
For information , see Test Your Bot Defense Advanced Configuration.
Step 5: Deploy Policies in Your Production Environment
After you verify in your test environment that Bot Defense is configured correctly and correctly identifying automated traffic, work with your F5 Operations team to deploy your policies in a production environment.