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Stop paying for bot traffic. Start protecting your budget.

Malicious bots and non-human traffic are inflating your Acquia hosting bills and draining performance. The Drupal Bot Protection Playbook gives technical leaders a clear, actionable strategy to detect, filter, and eliminate costly traffic before it hits your infrastructure.

Designed specifically for public-sector Drupal sites, this guide shows how to cut through the noise and reclaim control of your digital budget, without switching platforms or disrupting users.

Book cover showing a blue shield protecting a web browser from angry robots, with the title 'Drupal Bot Protection Playbook: A Technical Director’s Guide to Eliminating Costly Traffic'.

Actionable technical strategies built for government and higher ed sites.

  1. Bot Detection 101: Step-by-step guidance on identifying hidden bot traffic
  2. Drupal Security Foundations: A checklist of must-have security practices to harden your site before layering on bot protection.
  3. Good Bots vs. Bad Bots: Practical strategies for whitelisting essential bots and blacklisting malicious bots and scrapers.
  4. The Edge Layer: A breakdown of why traditional bot controls are ineffective against sophisticated bots—and why edge-layer WAF is the gold standard for cost and performance.
  5. Form Defense: Tips for defending contact forms and registration pages from spam bots using reCAPTCHA and honeypots, as part of a holistic defense strategy.
  6. Ongoing Monitoring & Maintenance: Advice on setting up dashboards and alerts for bot traffic, with Promet’s playbook for quarterly security reviews, continuous tuning, and incident response.
  7. Tailored Protection Plans for Government and Higher Education: Detailed insights on protecting mission-critical features unique to government and higher education.
  8. FAQs and Troubleshooting: Answers to common questions about Cloudflare, Acquia, SEO impacts, implementation timelines, ongoing support, and how to justify bot protection investments to stakeholders.

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This playbook captures our collective insights and actionable strategies to empower your team. We've also developed a turnkey solution—an optimized Cloudflare integration specifically for Drupal websites hosted on Acquia and Pantheon—to rapidly and effectively address the challenges detailed here.
 
Consider this playbook and our turnkey solution as our commitment to helping you clearly identify, control, and eliminate costly bot traffic, allowing you to refocus your resources and attention back onto your core mission and the communities you serve.
Andy Kucharski
Andy Kucharski
CEO, Promet Source
Matt Driffill

Matt Driffill

Digital Content Manager
City of Rochester

Brenda Massie

Brenda Massie

Project Manager/
Business Analyst
City of Rochester

Peter Ross

Peter Ross

Director of UI/UX
Promet Source

Rob Ellis

Rob Ellis

Sr. Solutions Engineer 
Acquia

Amy Groenhof

Amy Groenhof

Proposal Manager
Promet Source