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title: "Bot Management: Proactive, Granular Protection"
description: "Machine-learning bot detection that scores every request in real time, blocking malicious automation while letting trusted crawlers and AI agents through, with no friction for humans."
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# Bot Management

Proactive, granular and frictionless: machine-learning detection and anomaly analysis, monitored and managed 24/7.

**Bots are a critical threat to any online business.** They can compromise the security
and performance of your platform, flooding servers with **DDoS** requests until the
site is unreachable, and running **credential-stuffing** attacks that use stolen
passwords for mass logins, leading to account takeovers and data breaches.

*Every request is scored in real time, trusted bots and humans pass while malicious automation is blocked.*

- Humans (Genuine visitors)
- Good bots (Search & AI crawlers)
- Bad bots (Stuffing, scraping)
- Optimi Bot Engine
- Allowed through (Humans & good bots)
- Bad bots blocked (No friction for users)

## Advanced bot management

Effective bot management relies on automated, data-driven strategies. Using advanced
machine learning, the solutions we implement assess **every incoming request in real
time** to determine its probability of being bot-generated, then act accordingly.

- **Allow good bots** — Trusted bots like Google crawlers and AI agents pass through seamlessly, protecting your SEO/GEO rankings and digital visibility.
- **JavaScript client scrutiny** — Lightweight JS checks silently gather telemetry from visitors, maximising detection accuracy without adding friction for genuine users.
- **Machine-learning detection** — Advanced AI identifies suspicious patterns in real time, constantly evolving by analysing billions of requests to better tell humans from scripts.
- **Anomaly detection** — By mapping normal behaviour for your platform, we instantly flag deviations, catching zero-day threats and new bots without prior signatures.
- **Heuristics vs. obfuscation** — Cross-referencing browser behaviour and request footprints exposes and blocks even heavily disguised, sophisticated automated attacks.
- **Managed 24/7** — Our team monitors and tunes your defences around the clock as bot tactics evolve.

> **Security without compromising performance**
>
> Block the bots that hurt you while welcoming the ones that help: no captchas in the
>   way of real customers, no scraping or account takeovers behind the scenes.

## Related guides
- [edge-management](/en/guides/tags/edge-management)
- [web-security](/en/guides/tags/web-security)

[Get in touch](/en/contact): Secure your digital assets — Talk to our team about frictionless, machine-learning bot management for your platform.