Bots now make up nearly half of all internet traffic - and many aren’t playing fair. Learn how to detect malicious crawlers, distinguish between AI agents, and defend your app using layered bot protection strategies like user-agent verification, fingerprinting, and rate limiting.
A WAF can protect your Next.js app from passive scanning as well as active exploitation of known vulnerabilities. If you need to be PCI DSS v4.0 compliant then a WAF is required, but what about other types of application?
Arcjet is designed to run everywhere - locally, in CI/CD, in staging, and in production. Write unit tests for your security rules and avoid breaking production.