Cloudflare introduces behavioural defence against modern bots
Tenable expands Exposure Management Platform
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Cloudflare introduces behavioural defence against modern bots
loudflare has announced the general availability of Precursor,
C a next-generation, continuous behavioural validation engine for bot management. Built directly on Cloudflare’ s edge, Precursor runs seamlessly inside web browsers to monitor entire user sessions in order to detect bot automation. Unlike traditional, static CAPTCHAs, it analyses ongoing interactions in real time to catch advanced bots, improving detection precision without interrupting legitimate users.
For the first time, automated bot traffic has eclipsed human activity on the Internet, now generating roughly 57 % of all web requests. This milestone emphasises a seismic evolution from an Internet built for human clicks to a digital landscape now dominated by AI agents. For organisations and everyday consumers, this means that legacy defences are blind to a new breed of automated threats that drive up infrastructure costs, manipulate inventory, and compromise data. While a modern bot can easily fake a single action to pass a one-time
Dane Knecht, CTO of Cloudflare security check, replicating an entire human journey remains a massive engineering hurdle. To protect the integrity of the global Internet, organisations must move away from static, point-in-time defences and embrace continuous behavioural validation – analysing telemetry across an entire session to unmask automated imposters trying to blend into the crowd.
“ Traditional security checks look at a single moment in time, but modern bots have gotten smart enough to fake their way through the front door,” said Dane Knecht, CTO of Cloudflare.“ Instead of just checking an ID at the gate, we are looking at behaviour over the entire visit. This makes life seamless for real users, while making it incredibly difficult and expensive for bad actors to fake human behaviour. Cloudflare already protects users billions of times a day at critical moments like login and checkout, but until now, the space between those moments was a black box. With Precursor, we’ re now eliminating that blindspot.”
Tenable expands Exposure Management Platform
enable has announced the expansion of the Tenable One Exposure Management Platform, unifying application
T security risks with all other exposure data. By integrating static code vulnerability data, Tenable One delivers complete, code-to-runtime visibility across the entire attack surface.
Tenable One ingests, analyses and normalises data from relevant application development and security sources, including AI application security tools, such as Claude Security. Tenable One then connects all ingested exposure data – unifying Tenable telemetry with data from other security tools, including endpoint protection, cloud security, vulnerability management, operational technology security and more, and vital business context from repositories like configuration management databases – designed to deliver the most complete view of enterprise
Eric Doerr, Chief Product Officer, Tenable
risk, and accelerate remediation prioritisation and action. With this platform expansion, Tenable One shifts organisations from reactive application scanning to proactive risk prioritisation, connecting code risks to the runtime systems, cloud workloads, identities and attack paths they put at risk.
“ Bringing application security data into Tenable One, we’ re giving our customers the context they’ ve been missing,” said Eric Doerr, Chief Product Officer, Tenable.“ Security teams don’ t need to wade through a sea of vulnerabilities. With Tenable One, security teams know exactly where they are exposed the moment an exposure is created – whether an agentic AI security tool discovers a new zero-day in an opensource library or a human error introduces risk. For the first time, security teams can see code flaws and prioritise remediation actions alongside all other forms of risk for more effective risk reduction.”
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