In the modern digital landscape, the Digital cloud transmuted on how we create and deploy applications. One noticeable improvement is on how easy to generate bots in the cloud. However, this ease brings the challenge of controlling and preventing malicious bot traffic. FortiGate as the industry leading security cutting-edge solution emerge as a powerful solution to this problem.

Generating Bots in the Cloud: Advantage in Disguise

Digital cloud offers great flexibility and scalability, making the cloud easier for any malicious actor to create and develop the Bot. Below are some of the factors why cloud is easier for generating bots:

Scalability: Digital Public cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, GCP and Ali Baba offers multiple service model making it easier for the malicious actor to spun up the resources whenever needed, also this gives a greater efficiency for developing the bot.

Accessibility: Public Cloud services can be accessed from anywhere in the world with just having the internet connection, this makes easier for the bad actors to facilitate the rapid development and deployment of the bot.

Cost-Effectiveness: Metered services is one among the several important features or advantage of the cloud, pay only for what you consume, this makes the Public Cloud one of the cost-effective platform to develop bot in cost efficient manner.

Integration: Public Cloud models offer seamless integration with several services such as microservices, databases, Kubernetes, Docker etc. which makes it much easier to perform complex tasks by creating the specific purpose bot.

These easiness of generating the bots comes with multiple disadvantages for the IT industry, malicious actors use the cloud services to develop bots which could be used for nefarious purposes such as DDoS attacks, Spam, Phishing attacks etc.

FortiGate: Watchdog Against Malicious Bot Traffic

FortiGate, an industry leading firewall solution by Fortinet, leader in preventing malicious bot traffic. Below are some of the safeguards provided by FortiGate to protect our network:

Advanced Threat Protection: FortiGate detects and blocks the advanced threats using the FortiGuard database designed specifically for threat intelligence, pulls the updated threat intel data from the cloud and use that DB to block the malicious traffic & also it helps in stay ahead of emerging threats.

FortiGuard Advanced Botnet Protection: It has integrated Artificial Intelligence/ Machine Learning capabilities and behavior analytics that makes the FortiGate powerful in protecting applications from account takeover, data breach and service disruption. Feedback loop helps in detecting and preventing the emerging attack patterns and bot characteristic. It also uses the AI/ML to differentiate between the User traffic, Legit bot and malicious bot.

Web Filtering: This security features helps in preventing the users connecting to malicious or suspicious website based on bad known categories and the website reputation.

Intrusion Prevention System (IPS): This security features helps in providing near real time intelligence with multiple intrusion prevention rules to detect and block the suspicious and malicious traffic even before reaching the network.

Behavioral Analysis: FortiGate looks for anomalies in the network traffic and if the traffic finds suspicious it informs the user to take action against the traffic or blocks them based on the configured settings. This is a proactive measure which helps in preventing attacks before it harms our network.

Although the cloud has greatly simplified the process of generating bots, it has also highlighted the critical need for robust security measures to combat malicious bot traffic. FortiGate excels as a comprehensive solution, effectively detecting and blocking harmful bots while offering advanced threat protection to ensure your network remains secure.

Using the above security features, Companies could enjoy the easiness of generating bots in the cloud without compromising the security. As we continue to use Digital cloud, its utmost importance to have right tools to detect and prevent emerging threats that harms our digital assets.