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Bots Get Caught. Users Get Through

Every request runs through a multi-layer pipeline: connection fingerprinting, real-time behavioral scoring, and intelligent challenges. Bots that evade one layer are caught by the next.

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The Detection Pipeline

Four layers, each catching what the last one missed

Fingerprinting

Connection-level fingerprints identify the real client behind each request, even when headers are forged to impersonate a browser. What a client claims to be and what it provably is are checked against each other.

Behavioral Scoring

The engine analyzes hundreds of session signals, including interaction patterns and navigation, to build a per-session confidence score that updates in real time as the session behaves.

Challenges

Only suspicious sessions advance to a challenge, served instantly from the edge with no third-party scripts or external dependencies. Real users almost never meet one.

Severity-Based Response

Responses escalate from light verification to throttling to full blocking, so trusted visitors are never interrupted and persistent abusers never get comfortable.

Layers Beat Lists

A user-agent blocklist is trivial to evade; a forged header costs an attacker nothing. Fingerprints, behavior, and challenges each catch what the previous layer missed, which is why evading one buys a bot nothing but a harder question.

Invisible to Humans

Challenges are served from the edge with no third-party scripts, and only suspicious sessions ever see one. Your users get your product; the pipeline stays backstage.

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WAF

Turn verdicts into policy: rate limits, blocks, and challenges per route.

AI Threat Detection

The scoring models behind the behavioral layer.

SaaS & Web Platforms

Bot protection in the wild: logins, signups, and checkouts.

Web Protection

The full application-layer product this pipeline belongs to.

Frequently Asked Questions

What are bot protection services?
Bot protection services detect and block automated traffic such as scrapers, credential stuffers, and abuse bots while letting real users through. Gateway Sentry runs every request through a multi-layer pipeline of connection fingerprinting, real-time behavioral scoring, and intelligent challenges so bots that evade one layer are caught by the next.
How does Gateway Sentry tell bots apart from real users?
The behavioral engine analyzes hundreds of signals from each session, including interaction patterns, client behavior, and navigation, to build a per-session confidence score. Trusted visitors pass through with little to no disruption, while only suspicious sessions advance to a challenge.
What is the difference between bot protection and bot mitigation?
Bot protection refers to detecting and stopping unwanted automated traffic, while bot mitigation describes the actions taken once a bot is identified, such as challenging, throttling, or blocking it. Gateway Sentry delivers both: passive detection plus automated, severity-based responses from light verification to full blocking.
Do I need to install an SDK or change my code to use bot protection?
No. Gateway Sentry's bot protection runs at the edge with no SDKs and no code changes. Challenge pages are served instantly from the edge with no third-party scripts or external dependencies.
How much do Gateway Sentry's bot protection services cost?
Bot protection is part of Gateway Sentry's usage-based web (L7) plan, priced at $30 per TB plus $0.55 per million requests with pay-as-you-go billing and no minimum commitment.

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