Description: The Bot Policy refers to a set of guidelines designed to manage bot traffic on networks and systems, as well as to prevent abuses that may compromise their security and integrity. In the context of cybersecurity, these policies are crucial, as connected devices are vulnerable to automated attacks that can lead to the exploitation of sensitive data or service disruption. Bot policies establish criteria for identifying and classifying bot traffic, differentiating between benign bots, such as search engine crawlers, and malicious ones that may perform data scraping, DDoS attacks, or unauthorized access attempts. These guidelines may also include mitigation measures, such as implementing CAPTCHAs, rate limiting requests, and using bot-specific firewalls. The relevance of these policies lies in their ability to protect both users and systems from emerging threats in an increasingly interconnected environment, where the proliferation of IoT devices increases the attack surface and the complexity of security management.
