(And yes—there’s a one-click button for most of it.)
Meet the Bot Swarm
For the first time in a decade, non-human traffic has pushed past the humans—51 % of everything that hits the web now comes from automated scripts, and 37 % of it is outright malicious.
Why the surge? Generative-AI tools make it easy for even hobby hackers to spin up “smart” bots that scrape prices, hoard inventory, or try stolen passwords at lightning speed.
Quick Fix #1 – Flip on Managed Bot Signatures in Your WAF
Think of these signatures as a “No Entry” sign for known bad bot families. Turn them on and you block thousands of offenders—no code, no tuning.
Cloudbric Managed Rules for AWS WAF ships with an always-fresh set, so yesterday’s bot upgrade doesn’t become tomorrow’s outage.
Quick Fix #2 – Rate-Limit the Hotspots
Price pages, search boxes, and “add-to-cart” APIs are bot magnets. With Cloudbric WMS, you can enforce simple velocity rules—“no more than 10 requests in 10 seconds from the same IP”—right at the application edge. Even if a scraper slips past your WAF, Cloudbric WMS throttles it before it ever hits your origin servers.
Quick Fix #3 – Bullet-Proof the Login Box
Login screens are prime targets for attackers trying stolen credentials. By turning on the relevant protection in Cloudbric Managed Rules for AWS WAF, repeated login attempts and suspicious IP addresses get caught immediately at the edge. This stops most mass-login attacks before they hit your application.
Quick Fix #4 – Put Your APIs Behind a “Positive Security” Gate
Instead of trying to blacklist every possible bad request, a positive-security approach whitelists exactly what valid API calls should look like.
Cloudbric WMS applies this model at Layer 7, ensuring only approved traffic reaches your APIs. Any deviation is dropped automatically.
Quick Fix #5 – Spot Headless Browsers & Fake Chrome
Advanced bots pretend to be real browsers to slip past simple defenses. Enabling Cloudbric Managed Rules for AWS WAF flags suspicious behavior—like missing JavaScript execution or no real user interaction—right at the edge. Those ghost sessions get caught before they start scraping or abusing your site.
Quick Fix #6 – Automate the Updates (Because Bots Evolve Daily)
Bots evolve continuously. Cloudbric WMS pulls the latest threat intelligence in real time and applies updates across both WAF and WMS layers.
It also sends quick alerts (via email or Slack) if something abnormal happens, so you’re always one step ahead without manual tuning.
Cloudbric Spotlight – One Button, Three Fixes Covered
Activate Cloudbric Managed Rules for AWS WAF in the Marketplace and you instantly cover:
- Bot Signatures – pre-loaded, auto-updated.
- Credential-Stuffing Defense – velocity + reputation in a single rule.
- Behavioral Bot Detection – headless browser fingerprints baked in.
No rewrites, no extra hardware—just choose the rule group and hit Add to WebACL.
Wrapping Up
AI isn’t just powering helpful chatbots—it’s also fueling a wave of faster, sneakier automated attacks. Six small moves today can save you hours of cleanup tomorrow, and three of them are literally a flip of a switch with Cloudbric Managed Rules for AWS WAF. Ready to see the difference? Spin it up in your AWS account and let the swarm bounce off the gate.
About the Author
Luis is a cybersecurity specialist at Penta Security, focused on AWS WAF solutions and managed rule-set development. With years of experience defending web applications against automated threats, he helps organizations stay one step ahead of evolving bot attacks.