Bot Management Solutions

Secure your online presence with fast, reliable, and flexible bot detection and enforcement, all done locally on your infrastructure.

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The problem?
Bot activity is rising.

Malicious DDoS botnets, web scrapers, crawlers, vulnerability scanners, and other bots can cause downtime, data theft, fraud, high resource use, and more.

However, not all bots are inherently bad. Business goals and preferences can impact which bots organizations allow versus restrict. Protecting against harmful bots without blocking legitimate (welcomed) bots or human users is difficult.

50%
Nearly 50% of today's internet traffic comes from automated bots.
39%
AI bots in particular accessed 39% of the web's top one million websites by mid-2024, yet fewer than 3% of those sites (purposefully or unintentionally) had active blocking measures.
33%
Roughly 33% of all traffic is attributable to harmful bots.

High-performance bot management at the edge layer neutralizes rising bot threats.

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Fast, reliable, and flexible bot identification and categorization accurately detects malicious bots and unwanted AI crawlers. Protect against their effects without impacting legitimate traffic from human users or search engine crawlers. 100% local processing provides low latency and maintains data privacy.

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Traffic enters HAProxy and passes through our DDoS protection and Access Control Lists (ACLs) security layers before entering the bot management layer.

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Next, HAProxy Enterprise Bot Management Module evaluates requests using a compact and efficient bot detection algorithm powered by threat intelligence from HAProxy Edge — enhanced by machine learning.

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The module assigns an overall score to the client, indicating whether they're potentially human, suspicious, or a bot.  These results can also signify the presence of verified crawlers (Googlebot) and verified bots, which teams may choose to allow.

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HAProxy Enterprise implements the defined response policy (e.g. blocking, challenging, tarpitting, throttling) while passing through safe traffic normally.

Bot management benefits

Accurate bot protection

Block only the bad bots, with our highly accurate and efficient detection algorithm powered by threat intelligence from HAProxy Edge's global network—enhanced by machine learning.

Flexible integration

Leverage deep integration with HAProxy Enterprise’s other security layers for customized detection and response. Deploy anywhere you'd like—even in air-gapped environments.

Fast application performance

100% local processing without additional layers offers the lowest possible latency and a consistently fast user experience.

Simplicity, reliability, and security

Local processing also reduces complexity, removes external dependencies, and keeps your data private.

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What are people saying about HAProxy?

"You want a buffer between the big scary internet and your nice application that can protect you from common kinds of attacks and disruptions, which brings us to HAProxy."

Nathan Mellis,
Head of Engineering at Modzy

With HAProxy One,bot management is just the start

Our bot management solution is delivered by HAProxy One – the world’s fastest application delivery and security platform, consisting of a flexible data plane (HAProxy Enterprise), a scalable control plane (HAProxy Fusion), and a secure edge network (HAProxy Edge).

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Unified Platform with API/GUI

Exceptional Performance

Next-Gen Security powered by Threat Intel + ML

Flexible Deployment & Integration

Full-Lifecycle Management & Automation

Centralized Observability

World-Class Customer Experience

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Use your favorite technologies with HAProxy.

HAProxy Enterprise and HAProxy Fusion Control Plane seamlessly integrate with leading technology platforms.

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HAProxy is named G2's leader in Load Balancing, Container Networking, API Management, WAF, and DDoS Protection.

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Load balancing and HA is mission critical for some of our services, since we need to feed 24/7 streams to our consumers. HAProxy is perfect for that.

Matteo P, via G2

Ready to get started with bot management?

Empower your business to manage bot traffic effectively with HAProxy Enterprise. Protect your resources, safeguard your data, and maintain optimal performance with our integrated solution.

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