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AWS_WAF Bot Control Managed Rule expands bot detection capabilities to enhance web application security.

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❇ #AWS_WAF Bot Control Managed Rule expands bot detection capabilities to enhance web application security.

❇This is new version of Bot Control Managed Rule Group with enhanced features to help customers better manage and protect their web applications from bot activity.

❇Managed Rule Group includes:
1️⃣ Token reuse detection:
β˜‘ Identifies the reuse of WAF tokens across autonomous system numbers and geographic locations, in addition to existing IP-based detection.
β˜‘ Customizable sensitivity levels – High, Medium, and Low which enable customers to take mitigation actions.

2️⃣ Expanded Bot categories (19 new bots) some of them are following,
 β˜‘ CategoryEmailClient - Inspects links in emails and flag suspicious emails.
 β˜‘ CategoryMonitoring - Monitoring of performance and uptime
 β˜‘ CategorySearchEngine - vulnerabilities or security audits
 β˜‘ CategorySeo - Inspects for search engine optimization
 β˜‘ CategoryAI - Inspects for artificial intelligence (AI) bots
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3️⃣ Cloud Service Provider Labels:
β˜‘ New labels that allow customers to selectively allow or block traffic from specific cloud service providers.

4️⃣ Automated Browser Extension Labels:
β˜‘ Labels to detect the presence of browser extensions that assist in web automation, such as Selenium IDE and automated browser signals.

5️⃣ Improved CloudWatch Visibility:
β˜‘ Enhancing visibility of bot activity across your resources

❇To leverage this latest version you need to manually change the version number of Bot Control Managed Rule group.

πŸ“Œ Explore more about WAF Bot control: https://aws.amazon.com/waf/features/bot-control/

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