Cequence Security

Your web, mobile and API-based applications are increasingly targeted by bad actors who use a rich repository of resources from the dark web to programmatically attack the business logic of your public facing applications with malicious transactions that appear to be legitimate, or syntactically correct. These attacks manifest themselves in the following abusive ways: account takeover (also referred to as credential stuffing), fake account creation, content scraping, denial of inventory, denial of wallet, gift card theft and loyalty program fraud. The impact to your business can be seen in the following ways:

  • Revenue loses directly attributed to fraud, theft and the process of addressing it.
  • Decline in user-base from reputation bombing, loss of trust and poor user experience.
  • Increased infrastructure costs to address the high volume of illegitimate traffic.
  • Degradation of user experience, application performance and availability.

Traditional network level protections, such as Web Application Firewalls , CDNs, and 1st generation bot mitigation tools, have proven to be largely ineffective and are hard to manage, injecting friction into the application development lifecycle and often impacting user experience.

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Intelligently Preventing Automated Application Attacks

Cequence Application Security PlatformCQ botDefense complements CQ appFirewall as an additional security module available within the Cequence Application Security Platform (ASP).

CQ botDefense leverages CQAI, a patented, machine learning, analytics engine to automatically discover all of your web, mobile and API-based applications along with the threats and vulnerabilities targeting them that may lead to data loss or application infrastructure compromise. Armed with this unmatched visibility, your security team can deploy policies and accomplish the following application security objectives:

  • Prevent automated attacks targeting web, mobile apps and their respective APIs. CQ botDefense continually analyzes your public-facing applications to discover and prevent threats using a range of response options including block, alert, deception, rate limiting and geo-fencing.
  • Bake security into your application infrastructure. Continual analysis of your applications by CQAI eliminates app deployment delays and slow page load penalties associated with JavaScript injection and mobile SDK integration while ensuring that new applications or updates are automatically protected.
  • Integrates with your existing security infrastructure. As a means of improving your overall security posture, CQ AI findings can be exported to your existing IT infrastructure such as another security device for enforcement, a SIEM, or a REST API endpoint for added analysis or correlation. The REST API also allows you to export the attack response results for post-mortem analysis and fine-tuning.
  • Deploy security where you need it. A distributed, container-based architecture enables you to deploy CQ botDefense as a SaaS, in the cloud, or in your data center.
  • Enables application security consolidation. Managed centrally, the integrated elements of the Cequence ASP, CQ botDefense and CQ appFirewall allow you to consolidate multiple application security functions – bot protection and application firewall – into a single platform.

Reducing your Threat Footprint

Research shows that malicious bots represent as much as 35% of the overall web traffic and for some customers, these attacks represent 90% or more of their web traffic. CQ botDefense takes an intelligent approach to preventing business logic abuse attacks targeting your public facing web, mobile and API-based application infrastructure.

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