2022 State of Bot Mitigation

The 2022 State of Bot Mitigation annual report reveals the state of bot management and mitigation solely from organizations that have invested in one or more solutions in attempt to solve their automated threat and bot problems.

Conducted by an independent research firm, this year’s report finds that the majority of companies using anti-bot solutions continue to struggle to stay ahead of threat actors despite spending up to millions of dollars fighting malicious bot attacks, largely due to the manual effort required to maintain and manage their expensive solutions.

The failure of these solutions to effectively detect and stop bots forces companies to spend an increasing amount of time, money, and resources to keep pace with the innovation and speed of motivated attackers.

Research Methodology:

Kasada commissioned Atomik Research to conduct a survey of 202 U.S. security and IT professionals responsible for mitigating bots. All organizations surveyed currently have anti-bot solutions in place. Fieldwork took place between August 18th and August 29th of 2022. Atomik Research, a part of 4media group, is an independent market research agency.

Executive Summary

Bots are Thriving, Companies are Losing

Bots continue to evolve and thrive at the expense of businesses. IT and security professionals at the frontlines of bot detection paint a troubling portrait of organizations’ battles against malicious automation.

Automated threats, bot attacks, and online fraud contribute to revenue loss for organizations. Most companies surveyed report that they have lost revenue as a direct result of account fraud and malicious web scraping.

Wasted Time, Money, and Resources Due to Bot Attacks

Bot attacks have become more advanced and difficult to combat.

Respondents cite a higher spend toward managing and mitigating bot attacks, and more anticipate their organization to increase spending toward bot detection and prevention compared to last year.

In addition, companies are still spending the majority of their anti-bot budget on the maintenance, management, and remediation of their solution, rather than on the solution itself.