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3 Steps to Better DDoS Protection

As threats of DDoS attacks continue to increase, enterprises of all sizes are looking for ways to amp up their protection and mitigation techniques.

Open Banking: an Open Goal for Security?

Open Banking ultimately refers to the underlying financial technology, born alongside a new regulation - the second ‘Payment Services Directive' (PSD2) - which came into force on January 13th of last year. This new regulation will see the banks’ previous monopoly on their customer’s account[...]

Best Ways to Keep Your Cloud Environment Secure

As enterprises move their applications and data to the cloud, they’re faced with new challenges, and the most common one is how to keep the cloud environment secure.

What Bad Bots Do (and How You Can Stop Them)

Bad bots scrape data from sites without permission in order to reuse it (e.g., pricing, inventory levels) and gain a competitive edge. The truly nefarious ones undertake criminal activities, such as fraud and outright theft.

Industry Report: Bad Bot Landscape 2019 - The Bot Arms Race Continues

GlobalDots’ Bad Bot Landscape 2019 report investigates the daily attacks that sneak past sensors and wreak havoc on websites. It’s based on 2018 data collected from GlobalDots’ global network and includes hundreds of billions of bad bot requests anonymized over thousands of domains. Our goal is to[...]

Web Application Security Best Practices

The area of Web Application security is a growing concern for enterprise organizations. Half of all attacks are directed at web applications and that rate is increasing.

API Protection Best Practices

API usage in application development has become a standard.

How to Prevent Phishing Attacks

Phishing is a method employed by cyber-criminals to access email accounts and systems using deception rather than defeating security protections.

Modern Web Security Basics

Today’s digital, hyper-connected world has enhanced our lives, both personally and professionally. The internet, mobile devices, cloud computing, social networks and a dozen of other things enable us to be connected to each other all the time. They also allow us to work remotely, and to conduct our[...]

How Bad Bots Hurt Your Website and What You Can Do To Protect It

In the last few years, the term "bot" has become widey used. Everyone is talking about bots. We hear it used in politics, on social media, and when discussing website traffic.