Which two bot categories belong to unknown bots under Web-Application and API Security (WAAS) bot protection? (Choose two.)

The correct answer is C. Web scrapers D. HTTP libraries. WAAS bot protection classifies bots into 'known' and 'unknown' categories. Known bots are explicitly identified and include legitimate crawlers like news bots (A) and search engine crawlers (B), such as Googlebot-these are recognized by Prisma Cloud and handled with predefined ru

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ANews bots
BSearch engine crawlers
CWeb scrapers
DHTTP libraries

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B
5% (1)
C
90% (18)

Explanation

WAAS bot protection classifies bots into 'known' and 'unknown' categories. Known bots are explicitly identified and include legitimate crawlers like news bots (A) and search engine crawlers (B), such as Googlebot-these are recognized by Prisma Cloud and handled with predefined rules. Unknown bots are those that cannot be definitively identified as a specific known service. Web scrapers (C) and HTTP libraries (D) fall into the unknown bot category because they use generic or programmatic HTTP clients (e.g., Python requests, curl-based tools) that don't identify themselves as a specific known bot, making their intent ambiguous.

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