E-commerce Bot & DDoS Protection
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Your Store Is a Target the Moment It Makes Money
Competitors scrape your prices. Bots test stolen card numbers against your checkout. Fake orders drain stock and choke your fulfilment queue during your busiest sales window. None of this looks like a dramatic hack — it looks like traffic, until your conversion rate and your fraud dashboard tell you otherwise.
CimpleO builds bot protection, DDoS mitigation, and WAF configurations for e-commerce stores — Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, or fully custom platforms — designed to stop the attacks that specifically target online retail, without adding friction for real customers.
What We Protect Against
Card testing fraud. Bots run stolen card numbers through your checkout in small, automated batches to find which ones work — burning your payment gateway’s fraud-check budget and, if undetected, leaving you liable for chargebacks. We detect the pattern (rapid low-value attempts, IP rotation, abnormal decline rates) and block it before it reaches your payment processor.
Fake order floods. Automated bots submit bulk fake orders to drain limited-stock inventory, disrupt promotional pricing, or simply choke your operations team. Order validation and bot detection catch this at the application layer before it hits your database.
Price and catalogue scraping. Competitors and aggregators scrape pricing, inventory levels, and product data on a schedule. TLS fingerprinting and behavioral analysis catch scrapers that rotate user agents and IPs to look like organic traffic.
Credential stuffing on customer accounts. Leaked password lists get tested against your login and account pages at scale. Rate limiting and progressive lockout stop the attempt before an account — and the saved payment method on it — is compromised.
L7 DDoS during peak traffic. Application-layer floods timed to your product launch, flash sale, or Black Friday — when downtime costs the most and support tickets spike the fastest.
VoidFort: A Shield Node, Not a Shared Firewall
Most bot/DDoS protection is a shared WAF — your traffic sits on infrastructure serving millions of other sites, sharing rule sets and rate-limit pools with everyone else on the platform. For stores that need real isolation, we deploy VoidFort, our managed WAF platform: a dedicated shield node per customer that sits in front of your origin.
Traffic hits the Shield first — inspected by an application firewall running OWASP CRS rules — and only clean requests reach your store. Your real origin IP never appears in DNS records, TLS certificates, or scan results, so attackers probing your domain find the Shield, not your server.
Eight attack vectors handled at the Shield layer: port scanning (tarpitted), DDoS floods (dropped at kernel layer), SQLi/XSS/LFI (blocked by signature rules), credential stuffing (rate-limited then banned), origin discovery (every probe returns a Shield address), CVE exploits (signature-based blocking on disclosure), bot scraping (TLS fingerprinting), and low-and-slow attacks (mesh-sync blackholing across points of presence within 50ms).
A free audit spins up an isolated scanner for your domain and delivers a PDF report within 15 minutes — no card required, scanner destroyed on delivery.
Who This Is For
- Stores that have seen a spike in failed payment attempts or chargebacks they can’t explain
- Retailers whose competitors seem to always match their pricing within hours
- Shops running limited-stock drops or flash sales that get drained by bots before real customers can buy
- Businesses that have been hit by downtime during a product launch or seasonal sale
- WooCommerce, Shopify, or Magento stores currently relying only on default platform security
Start with a Security Audit
We review your traffic patterns, checkout flow, and current protection layer, then deliver a written report with prioritised findings and cost estimates — WAF configuration, rate limiting, bot detection, or a dedicated shield node where isolation matters.
No obligation to proceed. Most audits complete within 48 hours.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does e-commerce bot and DDoS protection cost?
A security audit (traffic pattern review, attack surface mapping, written findings): $1,500–$3,000. Implementation — WAF rules, rate limiting, bot detection: $5,000–$15,000 depending on platform and current exposure. Managed protection retainer: from $800/month. A dedicated shield node (isolated infrastructure, your origin never exposed) runs separately — see VoidFort below for that model.
What's the difference between this and just using Cloudflare?
Shared WAF platforms put your traffic on infrastructure serving millions of other sites — shared rule sets, shared rate-limit pools, your patterns sitting alongside everyone else's. We configure and tune protection specific to your store, and where isolation matters, we deploy a dedicated shield node (via our VoidFort platform) so your origin server's real IP never appears in DNS, TLS certificates, or scan results.
Can you stop fake orders and card testing specifically?
Yes. Card testing shows up as bursts of small, failed authorization attempts from rotating IPs — we detect and block that pattern at the application layer before it reaches your payment gateway or triggers fraud fees. Fake order floods (automated submissions that drain stock and trigger fulfilment workflows) are caught by bot detection and order validation before they touch your database.
Does bot protection break real customers' checkout experience?
That's the actual engineering problem — anyone can block all traffic. Rate limiting, challenge pages, and behavioral analysis are tuned to distinguish bot floods and scripted scraping from legitimate spikes (a flash sale, a marketing email blast), so real customers never see a CAPTCHA and bots never reach checkout.
Which e-commerce platforms do you protect?
Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, and custom-built stores. The attack patterns — card testing, scraping, fake orders, credential stuffing on customer accounts, L7 DDoS — are largely platform-agnostic; the mitigation is tuned to your specific stack, checkout flow, and API surface.