It’s often said that bot management is a cat-and-mouse game: Bot management vendors create bot detections and mitigations … the bot operators find ways to evade and work around those protections … the vendors address these novel attacks by developing new detections and mitigations … and the cycle starts over again.  \r\n Follow the money \r\n There’s a simple reason for this cat-and-mouse game: There’s money to be made by the attackers who succeed in getting through to their desired target sites. And many of the more sophisticated attacks are actually a combination of automation and human interaction.…