Bot Management: How to Use Edge WAF for Fine-Grained Traffic Control When AI Crawlers and Automated Scripts Flood Login and Payment APIs

In 2026, malicious bot traffic is growing more than 9 times faster than human traffic, and attacks are shifting from public page scraping to core business flows like login, shopping cart, and payment. This article combines the latest industry security reports to analyze why traditional static anti-scraping rules fail and shares how to implement an efficient bot management architecture using high-defense CDN, intelligent WAF machine learning, and custom rules from security teams.