BotGuard

BotGuard is a cloud-based service that screens websites for malicious bots, crawlers and scrapers. It screens traffic in real time so legitimate humans, search engines and affiliate marketing automation tools can use websites without interference while blocking bad bots. Webmasters, e-commerce sites and internet service providers that need strong website security use BotGuard.

BotGuard protects your online presence with these features:

• Bot Mitigation: Identifies and blocks bad bots to stop hacking, content theft and server overload.
• Web Application Firewall (WAF): Blocks malicious HTTP requests, including OWASP Top 10 threats like XSS, SQLI, CSRF and RFI.
• Content Scraping Prevention: Uses proprietary technology to stop humans and software tools from copying or scraping website content.
• Painless Integration: No DNS redirection, proxying or code changes required; integrates with various platforms using web server modules, CMS plugins and hosting panel extensions.
• Traffic Management: Analyzes HTTP requests to determine their origin so you can filter traffic and customize BotGuard settings.
• High Performance and Availability: Processes requests quickly with automatic horizontal scaling and backup nodes around the world.
• Free Monitoring Mode: Continuously monitors traffic without a time limit.
• Comprehensive Logs: Lets you create custom rules based on actual security events.

BotGuard offers several pricing plans for businesses of different sizes:

• Free: Monitors threats and sends real-time alerts (1 domain, 0 hits per month).
• Single: Protects single websites (2 domains, 100,000 hits per month) for €5 per month.
• Medium: Protects small businesses (20 domains, 1,000,000 hits per month) for €20 per month.
• High: Protects midsize businesses (100 domains, 5,000,000 hits per month) for €80 per month.
• Top: Protects hosting companies that want to offer protection as a service (300 domains, 10,000,000 hits per month) for €200 per month.

For custom or high-volume needs, BotGuard offers custom plans. Other options include free integration software, subdomain inclusion and hit-based billing with no charges for blocked traffic. Log files are kept for a month, but you can pay for longer retention.

BotGuard is for websites of all sizes, and it's a convenient way to cut down on malicious bot traffic and get some peace of mind when it comes to web security.

Published on July 18, 2024