Case Study: ArtStation Thwarts Malicious Bots and Protects User Accounts with Cloudflare Bot Management

ArtStation Thwarts Malicious Bots With Cloudflare

ArtStation is an online marketplace and portfolio platform for professional artists and designers. Rapid growth attracted large-scale malicious bot activity—credential-stuffing, content scraping and spam—that led to thousands of compromised accounts and hundreds of thousands of malicious requests hitting the site.

ArtStation enabled Cloudflare Bot Management, which uses machine-learning and network-wide threat intelligence to detect behavioral patterns and block bad bots while whitelisting legitimate crawlers. The service immediately exposed and stopped the attacks, restored visibility into malicious traffic, and drastically reduced bot activity so attempts now fail and the site remains protected.

Artstation

Leonard Teo

Founder and CEO