SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Nov. 4, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- via PRWEB - Distil Networks, Inc., the global leader in bot detection and mitigation, today announced its co-founder and CTO, Engin Akyol, will be keynoting a session titled "Field Guide to Optimizing Your Web Application Security," on Thursday, November 12 at 2:05 p.m. at the Defrag 2015 Conference.
What:
Fifty-nine percent of all web traffic is now made of bots. Why? Cheap cloud computing resources and open source software have enabled attackers to launch bots faster and at a lower cost than ever before. Bad bots are now the key culprits behind web scraping, online fraud, account hijacking, man-in-the-middle attacks, application denial of service, and brute force attacks. Attendees of this session will learn how to manage unwanted traffic and transactions with additional strategies for defending web infrastructure from bot attacks.
When:
Thursday, November 12, 2015
2:05-2:30p.m. MT/1:05-1:30p.m. PT
Where:
Omni Interlocken Resort
Broomfield, CO
For more information or to register for the conference, please visit http://defragcon.com.
About Distil Networks
Distil Networks, the global leader in bot detection and mitigation, is the first easy and accurate way to identify and police malicious website traffic, blocking 99.9% of bad bots without impacting legitimate users. Distil protects against web scraping, brute force attacks, competitive data mining, account hijacking, unauthorized vulnerability scans, spam, man-in-the-middle attacks and click fraud. Slash the high tax that bots place on your internal teams and web infrastructure by outsourcing the problem to the team with a maniacal focus on blocking malicious bots. For more information on Distil Networks, visit us at http://www.distilnetworks.com or follow @DISTIL on Twitter.
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