Blog Security The Web Scraping Problem, Part 3: Protecting Against Botnets David Sénécal works for Akamai as a Director of Engineering — Fraud and Abuse and is the author of The Reign of Botnets . He is passionate about improving internet safety and is an expert in online fraud and bot detection . He has over 25 years of experience working with web performance, security, and enterprise networking technologies across various roles, including support, integration, consulting, development, product management, architecture, and research. In the first and second blog posts of this series, we explored general botnet activity online — their intent, how they vary by industry, scalping, and more. Now, let’s take a look at protecting against botnet activity (and how Akamai can help). Protecting against web scraping \r\n Defending against scrapers requires a sound bot management strategy.…