QuestionQ8

VerifiedWeb application and API security with botnet mitigation

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A FortiWeb administrator observes an alert generated under the Threshold Based Detection category, with this message: Threshold Based Content Scraping Detection (Bot Detection) violation.

Based on the log details, what is the most likely cause of this alert?

Explanation

FortiWeb Content Scraping Detection identifies bots or automated scripts that systematically access many pages or URLs to copy site content. It evaluates repeated request behavior against configured occurrence and time thresholds; this is distinct from SYN-flood, malformed-request, and vulnerability-scanning detections.

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