Belgian Directory Service stops data scraping, and safeguards revenue with Distil Networks
Belgian Directory Service stops data scraping, and safeguards revenue with Distil Networks
5 Pages? CASESTUDY Belgian Directory Service stops data scraping, and safeguards revenue with Distil Networks“We wanted something that would run unattended and automatically stop the bots. We were astounded by the amount bad bots that are available on the Internet and try to access our datas. Distil just works.” TOM IT Project Manager Bot Buster Tom, IT Manager Challenges • Unknown actors would scrape Directory Service websites instead of paying for a commercial license? • In-house efforts to find and block offending IPs involved multiple people and departments, blocked legitimate users, and the bot operators just moved to new IPs ? • Legal actions against the web scrapers was expensive, time- consuming, and ineffective Results • Directory Service data is now only available to human
