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Sep 07, 2017

ASM bot detection

Folks

 

I have requirement to enable bot detection in F5 ASM policy for my application access via only mobile browsers or PC browsers not through mobile app, how i can avoid false positive here which detect by ASM. I understand that f5 inject java script in order to verify client integrity, what is the best practice here to achieve my goal.

 

any input appreciated.

 

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  • You need to have 2 separate ASM policies - one for browsers and a separate one for the smartphone app. The browser policy will have full bot detection features enabled and the smartphone app policy will have JavaScript-requiring options in bot/anomaly detection switched off and relying more on IP-based anomaly detection features of ASM.

     

    I assume you already have a separate Virtual Server for the mobile app, but if not then you can easily route the incoming traffic to two different ASM policies depending on the User-Agent header using Local Traffic Policy.

     

    Hope this helps,

     

    Sam