Release2026-08-31

Cloudflare announced Adaptive Intelligence, a detection engine built into its Bot Management product that learns from live traffic and issues short-lived, narrowly targeted blocking rules so attackers cannot map a fixed set of defences. It also looks at behaviour over several time windows to catch slow credential-stuffing and scraping campaigns. It is available to Bot Management customers, and Cloudflare's own forward-looking wording leaves the beta and general availability timing open.

What changed

Bot detection rules arrived through scheduled updates that could take weeks or months to deploy.

What it unlocks

Blocking automated traffic with short-lived rules that are generated and retired continuously rather than waiting for a vendor update.

  • over 1 trillion web visits analysed daily

What you need to act on it

  • Cloudflare Bot Management

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