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PerimeterX Human Challenge Now Default Option for Bot Defender

Human Challenge: Please Verify You are a Human

We’re making online user verification less challenging and more human, to help you reduce abandonment and improve conversions.

Every user has at some point struggled to convince a web application that they are a human and not a bot. From finding all the bicycles in a grid of photos or deciphering number and letter patterns buried in 3D grids or turning a seal to face upwards on a ball, challenges designed to verify that a live person is trying to access a web application have grown too…challenging.


Figure: reCAPTCHA vs. Human Challenge

Even worse, automated bots have gotten better than humans at solving these challenges. Machine learning and computer vision algorithms are improving much faster than human eyesight and that has allowed smart programmers to design automated CAPTCHA solvers that outperform people on certain types of challenges. In addition, some botnets have also built in calls to human CAPTCHA farms that feed the challenges to online workers. Well practiced in the art of challenges because they do them all day long, these workers solve CAPTCHAs for a fraction of a penny.

Introducing PerimeterX Human Challenge

At PerimeterX we recognized the need for improving detection while maintaining a great User Experience. No one likes to stop and identify stoplights or buses when they are trying to do something online. Spinning the ball to make the seal go up is annoying when you are in a hurry — especially on a mobile device. To improve on this situation, PerimeterX created Human Challenge. This is the first user-friendly verification that protects web and mobile applications from CAPTCHA-solving bots and CAPTCHA farms while also improving the customer’s experience in the application.

By collecting additional in-depth behavioral data about the user, Human Challenge detects and blocks CAPTCHA solving bots, whether they use automated or manual (Read more...)

*** This is a Security Bloggers Network syndicated blog from PerimeterX Blog authored by PerimeterX Blog. Read the original post at: https://www.perimeterx.com/resources/blog/2021/perimeterx-human-challenge-now-default-option-for-bot-defender/