Kasada, the most effective and simple way to protect against advanced bot threats, announced platform enhancements to address the rising prevalence of automated attacks, including "Solver Services," API-as-a-service tools designed to bypass most bot management systems.
When people successfully reverse engineer (solve) a bot detection system's defenses, they gain the ability to deceive and bypass it. It also allows them to commercialize the bypass and sell it as a Solver Service to thousands of people for a profit. Solver Services buyers gain the ability to launch automated bot attacks without any technical knowledge. Credential stuffing, inventory hoarding, web scraping, and web reconnaissance are all examples of this.
Kasada's improved platform disrupts the expanding Solver Services supply chain, as well as provides new ways for attackers to avoid detection. The firm's proactive, new approach to stopping bots adapts at the same rate as the attackers attempting to stop it. On the other hand, reactive bot management systems rely on static and poorly obfuscated defences.
"In our industry, providing immediate and long-term efficacy is everything – yet very few solutions protect and regularly change their defenses to stay ahead of attackers' speed of innovation. Organizations using anti-bot solutions that remain static and don't disguise their defense methods are hit the hardest by Solver Services. The majority of bot management solutions fail to detect sophisticated bots up to 90% of the time. The approach to stopping bad bots must evolve to remain effective," said Jonathon Hope, head of product, Kasada.
With this release, Kasada's architecture has been strengthened, with new detections for modern bots and dynamic randomization of its defenses. Attempts to reverse engineer Kasada's platform, on the other hand, will evolve over time. As a result, developing and maintaining Solver Services takes even longer and costs more money than before.
These advancements, which have been based on R&D since the launch of Defense V2 in Q1 2021, include:
To deter the threat of Solver Services:
- Dynamic Defense Randomization- For its polymorphic scripts, detection logic, and encrypted payloads, Kasada has introduced dynamic defense randomization. The solution counters automated threats by making it more difficult for them to be automated against. Furthermore, removing the return on investment disrupts the Solver Service supply chain.
- Resilience to Obfuscation- Kasada's proprietary interpreter slows reverse engineering attempts rather than relying on weak obfuscation methods or open-source JavaScript tools that can be easily deciphered. For attackers, new obfuscation techniques make decoding even more difficult and time-consuming.
To detect the newest stealthiest bots:
- Advanced Detection Techniques- Kasada has doubled the number of sensors it uses to interrogate clients in order to spot the latest developments in headless browser bots, custom mobile bots, and switcher bots. According to the most recent threat research, these constantly updated sensors detect the presence of automation and, if tampered with outside of a browser environment, break the process.
- Enhanced Detection of Anomalies- To detect suspicious bad bot activity and respond to threats, most machine learning (ML) systems and rate-limiting controls are either too slow (minutes) or too narrowly focused. In less than 30 seconds, Kasada's server-side data platform can isolate and mitigate detected anomalies across all of Kasada's customers, significantly reducing the effective attack window.
About Kasada
Kasada is the most effective and simple way to defend against advanced persistent bot attacks on the web, mobile, and API. Kasada restores Internet trust by thwarting even the most cunning cyber threats, such as credential abuse and data scraping. The solution stops automated threats invisibly while inflicting financial harm on attackers, destroying their return on investment. Kasada ensures immediate and long-term protection while empowering businesses with optimal online activity with its ability to onboard in minutes. Kasada has offices in Melbourne, San Francisco, and London, as well as New York and Sydney.
