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Intent, Not Identity, Is What Replaces Bot Detection

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"Is this a bot?" is a dead question. Arkose Labs CEO Kevin Gosschalk joins Dave Bittner on N2K CyberWire Daily to talk through his new book, After Bots, and why the old assumption that automated traffic is inherently malicious no longer holds. Block a customer's shopping agent and it costs you the sale. Allow a credential stuffing run and it's fraud at machine scale. Same answer, opposite correct action — which is why the question shifts from what the session is to what the agent is trying to do.

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