Every website or mobile app with a login form is a potential target for account takeover attacks. An “account takeover” is the process by which hackers and fraudsters use ill-gotten credentials to gain access to legitimate customers’ accounts. Most of these attacks are automated and driven by malicious bots. The rise of bots is mirrored by the growth of third-party credential data breaches and poor user behaviour around passwords. Combining bots with credential data breaches gives attackers the efficiency and scale to target your platform. Using the stolen user credentials, they mobilise bots to take over legitimate accounts. According to a recent study, bot-driven attacks can account for up to 99 percent of a website’s login traffic. Today, Okta, the leader in customer identity and access management, is pleased to announce a partnership with Shape Security, a leading solution in automated attack detection. Specifically, Shape takes on the bad.
