CGI HotScan360 vs. F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense

If I had the time to go deeper, I would put a 10, but as far as I have worked with CGI HotScan360 I think it's a [smooth] platform. I was trained really quickly (they pushed me in order to learn everything from CGI HotScan360 because my company needed me to be trained in this software/platform) but although the [training] was a bit rushed, the platform is really intuitive, really well designed and the architects behind [it] are geniuses. I really like how it works and the results. My boss was very happy with the results and with the discoveries we made with CGI HotScan360. Training others was super easy and they learned really quickly. Totally worth it.

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I'd strongly recommend it, but with a few caveats depending on how mature the team is with behavioral based security tools. One of our fintech clients was getting hit with low volume, widely spread login attempts, below our rate limiting thresholds. F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense was able to flag abnormal input timings, inconsistent device fingerprinting and high entropy in field population behavior. You can only imagine the wave of downstream account lockouts this saved the client. On the other end we had a client with a real time trading platform using Graphql over websockets. F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense wasn't able to tap into that stream natively. we had to reverse engineer a proxy layer to inspect events. It worked but it was clunky and not officially supported

Incentivized

• Fraud detection technology, fraud detection innovation, fraud detection training
• Secure payments
• Real time software who is looking for risk in every transaction
• Everything (all the services are in only one place)
• Cost savings
• Having all the requirement i.e. documents, ready, available and secure

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• Regularly analyze traffic patterns and bot activity. Use the insights provided by the platform to refine rules and policies.
• Configure rules to specify acceptable behavior for user interactions and alter sensitivity levels as appropriate to reduce false positives.
• Integrate F5 Bot Defense into our existing security stack, which may include WAFs (Web Application Firewalls) and SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) solutions.

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• Could be price effective
• Can be multilingual
• Can improve support experience

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• On a technical side, we've had a lot of deployment issues. This is not a one-sprint solution.
• We ran into undocumented failure modes and had to rely on L2 and L3 customer support, delaying troubleshooting significantly [in our experience].
• Accurate log ingestion is a larger challenge than one would want in a security tool.

We are more likely than not, to renew it. It saved us from a really huge data breach 4 months ago. It has earned its shower so far

Incentivized

It is very intuitive, easy to use, easy to navigate, and easy to teach to anyone! The pathways are very clear and they were designed [in] a very clear way! The security methods I have used in the past are not so innovative and very "manual", [with] nothing to do with CGI HotScan360.

Incentivized

Official support can sometimes take time to reach the right people. However, once you are in contact with the appropriate experts, the support is excellent, as F5 staff are true specialists. On the other hand, we always receive prompt assistance from our local sales team, who typically help us connect with the right people quickly.

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I have been trained during the pandemic in very specific thing and CGI HotScan360 is one of the bets platfomrs that trained me in a very professinal way

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Implementation of Distributed Cloud is accomplished a few different ways, it would pay to meet with the F5 team and map out your implementation prior to acquisition to make sure you Infrastructure and Operations teams are aligned to the approach and requirements.

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It's easy to set up and easy to use. Requires minimal training for the staff.

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Clodflare bot management was our other obvious option for us. We tested it on a staging version of our RFQ platform. It was great for broad traffic filtering but had a hard time with nuanced differences between real subcontractors and low volume bots mimickingt human input whereas that's where F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense thrived

Incentivized

• Secure payments
• Real time analytics
• Easy to use

Incentivized

• We experience large web/data scraping attack campaigns and F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense over the years has helped mitigate these for us and significantly reducing load off of our origin servers.
• Also, we experience many large Credential Stuffing attacks and F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense helps us stop these attacks and protects our customers.