# Bot management

> A WAF that challenges suspicious clients instead of blocking them outright: it blocks the same bots and mistakes fewer real users for one.

## Prerequisites

Research these first: [Web application firewall](https://wiki.playquorum.dev/research/waf.md).

## Engineering terms

- [Bot management](https://wiki.playquorum.dev/glossary/bot-management.md)
- [WAF (web application firewall)](https://wiki.playquorum.dev/glossary/waf-web-application-firewall.md)

## Facts

Bot management
- **Track:** Infrastructure
- **Era:** [Series A](https://wiki.playquorum.dev/eras/series-a.md)
- **Cost:** 3.75k
- **Requires:** [Web application firewall](https://wiki.playquorum.dev/research/waf.md)

## See also

- [Research tree](https://wiki.playquorum.dev/research.md)

Source: https://wiki.playquorum.dev/research/bot-management