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Introducing Adaptive Intelligence: undermining the economics of every bot attack
Cloudflare has launched Adaptive Intelligence, a non-deterministic bot detection engine designed to make automated attacks too costly and slow to be worthwhile.
Why it matters
By removing the static nature of traditional defenses, this helps businesses prevent sophisticated bot attacks that typically bypass standard rule-based security.
The details
The system implements a cycle of observation, training, deployment, and validation. It uses 'disposable rules' that are deployed and retired at random intervals to confuse attackers and prevents errors by running new versions in 'shadow mode' before they go live. Additionally, the engine evaluates traffic across multiple time windows to identify both sudden bursts and slow, distributed attacks.
What's next
Cloudflare will expand automatic detection generation and further integrate network, challenge, and browser signals into a single session view.
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Cloudflare owns Adaptive Intelligence
Today we are launching Adaptive Intelligence, a new bot detection engine
Cloudflare owns Precursor
Last month we introduced Precursor
Cloudflare owns Turnstile
client-side telemetry from Turnstile
Cloudflare owns Bot Management
Enterprise customers should turn on "Auto Update Machine Learning" in the Bot Management dashboard.
Chris Pope works at Cloudflare
Author: Chris Pope
Adaptive Intelligence is built with Machine Learning
Launching today is its first component: the machine learning at the center of your bot score
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Adaptive Intelligence uses JA4 TLS fingerprints
The engine aggregates Cloudflare network signals, such as JA4 TLS fingerprints
Adaptive Intelligence uses Turnstile
The engine aggregates... client-side telemetry from Turnstile
Adaptive Intelligence is related to Precursor
Precursor and Adaptive Intelligence were built as two parts of one idea to detect malicious automation.
Bot Management uses Machine Learning
Your bot score already comes from several detection methods working together: machine learning
Bot Management uses JavaScript fingerprinting
Your bot score already comes from several detection methods working together: ... JavaScript fingerprinting
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