Link11 Launches AI Traffic Management Dashboard

- The new dashboard provides forensic insights by categorizing AI traffic separately from general bot activity, allowing teams to analyze traffic by specific AI tools and crawlers. - Unwanted bot traffic can be costly, with automated bots operated by malicious actors costing businesses an average of 3.6% of their annual revenue. - The tool allows for granular control, enabling businesses to configure specific actions for different types of bots, such as allowing search engine crawlers while blocking others, providing custom responses, or flagging them in logs. - A key feature is the ability to drill down from aggregated dashboards into specific event logs to trace individual AI requests, which is crucial for audits and governance. - Link11's broader Web Application and API Protection (WAAP) platform, which includes this new dashboard, offers features like rate limiting to defend against credential stuffing, enumeration, and other malicious bot activities. - This launch addresses a growing problem, as AI-driven bots now account for a significant portion of internet traffic, with some reports indicating it has surpassed traffic generated by humans. - Link11, a German cybersecurity firm, has a history of using AI in its cloud-based security platform to protect against DDoS attacks and other threats for various industries. - The company's technology is designed to distinguish between legitimate and malicious traffic, enabling a quick response to new and unknown bot threats, often in under 10 seconds.