Radware Bot Manager vs Bot Manager Comparison: Everything You Need to Know Before Choosing

Radware Bot Manager is a bot management and mitigation platform that distinguishes legitimate human traffic and beneficial automation from malicious bots attacking a website, mobile application or API. It originated as ShieldSquare, acquired by Radware in March 2019 and integrated into the company's wider cybersecurity and application delivery portfolio. The problem it addresses has grown considerably: automated traffic now constitutes a large share of all web requests, and the malicious portion pursues objectives that conventional security tools were never built to recognise. Credential stuffing tests stolen username and password pairs at scale; scrapers harvest pricing and content for competitors; inventory hoarding bots hold goods in carts to deny sales; scalpers buy limited stock before humans can; account creation bots generate fraudulent registrations to exploit promotions; and card testing bots validate stolen payment details through small transactions. None of these involve an exploit or a malformed request, so a firewall sees only normal-looking traffic. Bot Manager instead identifies automation through behavioural analysis, examining mouse movement, keystroke dynamics, navigation patterns, timing and interaction characteristics that distinguish a person from a script, combined with device and browser fingerprinting, intent analysis and machine learning models trained across a broad traffic base. That approach handles sophisticated bots that rotate addresses, execute JavaScript and mimic real browsers — the category that defeats simple rate limiting and address blocking. Detected bots can be blocked, served a challenge, rate-limited, fed deceptive content or silently monitored, with responses chosen per bot category so that search engine crawlers and legitimate partner integrations remain unaffected. Protection covers web, mobile applications through an SDK, and APIs, which increasingly receive the majority of automated attacks. Dashboards report bot traffic composition, attack attempts and business impact. The platform serves ecommerce, financial services, travel, ticketing, gaming and media organisations. Pricing starts from around USD 740 with a free trial; there is no free version.