How AWS WAF threat intelligence features help protect the player experience for betting and gaming customers

This article summarizes how AWS WAF's threat intelligence features help protect betting and gaming applications from automated threats like bot attacks and fraudulent activities.

Specifically, the article covers:

• Common automated threats in the betting and gaming industry like web scraping, account fraud, denial-of-service attacks, and in-game cheating bots
• AWS WAF's intelligent threat mitigation features:
  • Common Bot Control managed rule group to detect known bots
  • CAPTCHA and challenge rule actions to validate human users
  • Client application integration for browser and mobile apps
  • Targeted Bot Control for detecting sophisticated bots using techniques like browser fingerprinting, automation detection, volumetric analysis, and machine learning models
  • Fraud Control for preventing account creation fraud and account takeovers
• Conclusion recommending a layered bot mitigation approach using AWS WAF's capabilities