Castle

Castle also offers a lightweight API that can help block bot attacks, fake signups and account takeovers without CAPTCHAs. The service is designed to offer full protection by analyzing user identity, reputation and behavior to identify and block suspicious activity.

Some of Castle's key features include:

• Lightweight Integration: Integration without having to send all web traffic through a CDN.
• Device Intelligence: 99.5% accurate fingerprinting to detect headless browsers, tampering, and carrier data.
• Bot Detection: Real-time bot, script, and coordinated attack detection.
• ATO & Abuse Scoring: Machine learning based account takeover attempt and abuse scoring.
• IP & Proxy Analysis: Unmasks anonymizers, Tor and suspicious IP origins.
• Email Intelligence: Reputation and risk scoring of email.
• Custom Metrics: Real-time aggregations based on login attempts, transactions and custom events.
• Custom Alerts: Create custom signals for proactive threat detection.
• Rule Evaluation: Automate allow, challenge or deny actions without code changes.
• State Management: Manage dynamic security lists to track trusted or blocked devices, users, IPs or custom attributes.

Castle offers real-time threat insights, eliminating the need for multiple, isolated tools. It also offers targeted protection against specific abuse scenarios like fake accounts, account takeovers, multi-accounting, content abuse, SMS pumping, and API abuse.

Castle's pricing is pay-as-you-go, based on the number of API requests or Monthly Active Users (MAU). There are three tiers:

• Free: Up to 1,000 API calls per month.
• Pro: $200 per month for the first 100,000 API calls, with additional calls at $0.002 each.
• Enterprise: Custom pricing starting at $4,000 per month, with custom solutions and dedicated support.

Castle's APIs handle billions of monthly requests with high resilience against severe bot attacks, with response times of 100ms. It's designed for large-scale applications. The service also allows for data exploration up to 18 months, so you can proactively identify evolving abuse trends.

With Castle's comprehensive features and flexible pricing, businesses can protect their users from malicious activity and improve their overall security posture.

Published on July 11, 2024