Tag: automation
Welcome to the dedicated Executive Summary for our 2023 Identity Threat Report. Here we’ve brought together the bullet-list style summary that opens the full report, as well as a few curated selections and charts to get immediately to the “what do I need to know” of it all. And of course, if you want to…
Read MoreNeutral/Mixed Intentions Many of the actors in this system are neither completely benign nor completely malicious. Some of these practices are bifurcated into legal and illegal practices, such as the rather obvious distinction between criminal and benign payment facilitators. Some of these provide services that can genuinely be used either way, such as reshipping services…
Read MoreIn Part One of this series, we introduced fake account creation bots and why people create fake accounts, and in Part Two we covered why automation is used to create fake accounts and how fake accounts negatively impact businesses. In this article, we are going to focus on how to identify fake bot accounts. We…
Read MoreSecurity automation’s promises are laudable and include reducing manual work, improving mean time to know and remediate for detection programs, and reducing a junior hire’s required technical knowledge to help address the talent issues programs still face. Many security automation vendors are especially bullish on that last promise, investing in low-to-no code user experiences that…
Read MoreDuring the reconnaissance period there were low levels of automated activity associated with resellers testing and configuring their bots in preparation for the January 11th sale (see Figure 1). Once the sale starts, the sale event period is categorized by a drastic spike in automation against the “add to cart” flow within the first few…
Read MoreIntroduction With artificial intelligence (AI) use growing in the enterprise, Chief Information Security Officers play a critical role in its implementation and adoption. CISOs need to prepare for the risks associated with AI content creation as well as AI-assisted security threats from attackers. By following some key best practices, we’ll be better prepared to safely…
Read MoreIntroduction Over the past few months, F5 Labs has presented a series of articles on fake account creation. We’ve covered why fraudsters create fake accounts and how automation is used to create fake accounts at scale. These articles have described how these fake accounts can negatively impact businesses, but also how security professionals identify fake accounts and leverage security controls to stop bots running fake…
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