Cequence
Bot Management

Bot Detection, Mitigation, and Fraud Prevention

Formerly Spartan

Cequence bot management protects an organization’s web, mobile, and API applications from the full range of bot attacks to prevent data loss, theft, and fraud, eliminating harmful business impacts such as downtime, brand damage, skewed sales analytics, and increased infrastructure costs.

Cequence Bot Management is part of the Unified API Protection Platform

The Cequence Unified API Protection platform unites discovery, compliance, and protection to defend an organization’s applications and APIs against attacks, business logic abuse, and fraud. Demonstrating value in minutes rather than days or weeks, Cequence offers a flexible deployment model that requires no client-side JavaScript or SDK integration. Cequence solutions scale to meet the needs of the largest and most demanding private and public sector organizations, protecting billions of user accounts and billions more daily API interactions.

Cequence detects and mitigates the attacks that matter

Today’s attackers are more sophisticated than ever, employing a variety of tools and techniques that are often difficult to detect, much less prevent. Cequence bot management detects and mitigates the automated attacks that threaten your organization, including:

How Cequence Bot Management Is Different

No Application Modification

Unlike competing solutions which use CAPTCHAs and other laborious methods that increase customer friction, Cequence requires no client-side JavaScript or SDK integration. This approach dramatically simplifies implementation and eliminates regression testing, as it doesn’t require development teams to integrate third-party code. Cequence protects at the network level, ensuring all your web and mobile applications, APIs, and cloud- and microservices-based architectures are consistently protected.

Industry-Leading Bot Detection

Cequence’s holistic network-based bot detection is more accurate than traditional client-side options. Rather than rely on signals from end-user devices, Cequence machine learning analyzes behavioral intent across web, mobile, and API traffic, resulting in a more accurate behavioral fingerprint. This technique consistently distinguishes good bots from bad bots and tracks malicious activity even as attackers re-tool to avoid detection.

Real-Time Mitigation

Cequence’s advanced AI detects attacks and autonomously creates threat mitigation rules and policies that can be implemented automatically or after human review. Real-time mitigation options include blocking, rate limiting, header injection, and deception.

Built With and For AI

Cequence makes use of ML and AI throughout the entire UAP platform, from attack detection to automated mitigation. Cequence protects GenAI and agentic AI use in the enterprise, discovering unauthorized internal AI use and preventing sensitive data leakage through AI APIs. It also protects against unwanted AI bot content scraping as well as AI used by malicious actors for sophisticated attacks.

Rapid Time to Value

Cequence deploys quickly whether on-premises, in the cloud, or hybrid. Sensors inspect traffic passively to identify anomalies or can be deployed inline for real-time mitigation. Hundreds of predefined rules immediately deliver protection while remaining customizable to meet the unique needs of your business. Machine Learning accelerates application baselining within hours, not days or weeks.

Fraud Prevention

Cequence fraud prevention capabilities enable organizations to identify and mitigate fraud in real time with customizable, granular policies specific to your business and industry. Detailed incident forensics provides transaction analysis with key insights into fraudulent and malicious activities.

Customer Success Story

Ulta Beauty Prevents Bot Attacks with Cequence

Ulta Beauty faced a persistent, high-volume bot inventory scraping attack designed to enable real-world robbery opportunities. The attack had financial impact beyond inventory loss, including infrastructure and labor costs. Cequence identified the malicious traffic, blocked tens of millions of bogus requests, and saved tens of thousands of dollars.

17M

requests blocked at height of the attack

85.9M

requests blocked in a 2-week time period

$80K

saved in infrastructure and loss prevention

Find out how Cequence can help your organization.

Cequence Security application and API protection experts will show you how we can help you improve your security posture with a personalized demo. Nothing to deploy. All we need is your email.

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Cequence
Bot Management

Bot Detection, Mitigation, and Fraud Prevention

Formerly Spartan