Mitigating Bot Attacks against Cloudflare

Bots on the internet are automated software that replace human interaction, often used for both good and bad purposes such as search engine crawling or attacking a website. The global pandemic has led to an increase in bot activity due to high demand and low supply of certain products. Cloudflare's Bot Management product helps detect and block bots using machine learning models and network data. It has been successful in protecting various parts of their platform, including customer-facing sites, billing systems, and API endpoints. The Super Bot Fight Mode release extends this capability to Pro and Business users, providing a boost across all Bot Management users by training the models more directly with bot signals.