The Vercel Web Application Firewall (WAF) inspects billions of requests every day to block application-layer threats, such as cross-site scripting, traversal, and application DDoS attacks. While we already inspect and block malicious bot traffic, we wanted to provide better, more precise controls to fine tune your application security. Today, we're launching the Bot Protection managed ruleset, free for all users on all plans. With a single click, you can protect your application from bot attacks. Enable Bot Filter Today Bot Filter protects applications from bot attacks with a single click. Enable Now Link to heading Countering the threat of bad bots Automation plays a key role in how the internet works. While some bots serve useful functions, like crawling and indexing, it’s estimated that nearly one-third of internet traffic is malicious bot activity. They’ve become some of the biggest security threats facing developers, security teams, and end-users today.…