Online Learning Update

by Conner Forrest, Tech Republic

2014 was the first year that bots were purported to have outnumbered actual people online. With the exponential rise of bad bots, that’s a real problem. For those unfamiliar, a bot is simply a piece of software that runs automated scripts online. Distil Networks uses machine learning algorithms to defend against the malicious behavior that can come from bots, such as web scraping, fraud, security breaches, spam, and downtime. Distil offers an appliance product and a cloud CDN. Essentially, the product works by proactively detecting behavioral anomalies relative to the typical traffic patterns on your company’s website. The company also maintains a large database of known bad bots, and builds a unique “fingerprint” for the connecting browser so that, even if it tries to reconnect from another IP address or hide behind a proxy, the company will still be able to detect it.

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-distil-networks-uses-machine-learning-to-hunts-down-bad-bots/