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INTRODUCING ADAPTIVE INTELLIGENCE: UNDERMINING THE ECONOMICS OF EVERY BOT ATTACK

blog.cloudflare.com12 min read

Summary from the TLDR Founders newsletter

Adaptive Intelligence is a new bot detection engine from Cloudflare that makes getting through so slow and costly that attacks stop being worth running. Not every attack is obvious to spot, and the economics of deterministic detection are always in the attacker's favor. Adaptive Intelligence makes sure that nothing attackers learn stays true, so each new attempt costs more than the last. It recognizes bots without visibly reacting to them and treats detection as a statistical judgment, weighing many signals at once so there's no single piece of logic for an attacker to isolate and beat.