# Anti-Bot

#### Overview

CloudGuard WAF's **Anti-Bot** engine aims at recognizing if the origin of incoming traffic to the protected web application was a human or an automatic script (such as a bot), and to allow blocking non-human activity when set to **Prevent** mode.

### How to set up Anti-Bot

#### Step 1: Locate the exact URIs used by the login/registration forms of your web application

The Anti-Bot protection injects scripts to the response when a user performs a "GET" request, and uses the output of the injected script to analyze the behavior upon the "POST" request of the login page, as the user fills the login/registration forms.

A security administrator protecting a web application, needs to request the owner of the web application's API, for the following:

* All **URIs** used to access login/registration pages (via the GET method).
* All **URIs** used to POST the login/registration request/form.

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The required data is URIs and not URLs, meaning the relative path of the GET/POST requests (without the domain name).
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Once both the security administrator has both lists, the next steps are performed in the administration web application for CloudGuard WAF.

#### Step 2: Browse to Policy->Assets and edit the Web Application / API asset 

Once the asset edit window opens, select the **Anti Bot** tab and click on **Click to add a new Anti Bot Practice**.

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#### Step 3: Add the list of login/registration URIs to inject scripts and URIs to validate

Click on the '**+**' sign in each of the 2 URI tables and add:

* In the **Injected URIs** table - the login/registration "GET" URIs from step 1.
* In the **Validated URIs** table - the login/registration "POST" URIs from step 1.

When making the first change to the default Web Application Best Practice's configuration such as setting URIs to activate the **Web Bots** security, you will be prompted to change the name of the Practice to your own custom practice name.

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#### Step 3: Make sure the Mode of the Web Bots sub-practice is as desired

Setting the Mode to **As Top Level** means inheriting the primary mode of the practice.

Otherwise you can override it only for this specific sub-practice to **Detect**/**Prevent**/**Disable**.

#### Step 4: Enforce Policy

Click **Enforce** on the top banner of the Infinity Portal.


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