Form Spam Protection
Bot spam creates too much noise and annoyance.
We keep your site secure.
Effective Form Spam Protection for WordPress and Drupal
Customize your site's defense against spam.
Form spam, including unsolicited submissions from both bots and manual entries, can compromise the integrity of your site. Despite the robust frameworks of WordPress and Drupal, their popularity makes them common targets. Our expertise lies in identifying and mitigating these threats, ensuring your site remains secure and efficient.
Tailored Protection for WordPress and Drupal
We don't offer a one-size-fits-all solution.
We understand that each website has unique needs. That's why we don't offer a one-size-fits-all solution but rather a customized strategy that fits your specific site architecture and business requirements. Our specialized knowledge of WordPress and Drupal allows us to implement the most effective spam protection measures.
These are some of the plugins / modules we've helped protect:
Popular WordPress Form Plugins
- Gravity Forms
- WPForms
- Contact Form 7
- Fluent Forms
- Ninja Forms
Popular Drupal Form Modules
- Contact
- Webform
- Entityforms
Integrating CRM for Enhanced Security
Streamline lead management and secure your forms with advanced CRM systems.
One key aspect of our approach involves integrating website forms with leading Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems, such as Salesforce and Microsoft Dynamics. This not only streamlines lead management but also enhances your website's security posture by leveraging the sophisticated filtering capabilities of these systems. We like to ensure our clients receive clean submissions to their CRM and it starts by protecting the frontend forms.
5 Effective Strategies to Prevent Form Spam
Explore our top methods to ensure your forms are secure.
To effectively safeguard your website from form spam, we outline five robust methods. These strategies ensure only legitimate users and well-behaved bots can interact with your site, protecting it from unwanted spam and security threats.
1. Web Application Firewall
Using a tool like CloudFlare's WAF to block traffic from specific sources, detect / fight bots, and rate limit traffic are all great ways to ensure the visitors to your website are real humans or well-behaved bots (e.g. GoogleBot).
2. JavaScript token
A JavaScript token is a unique piece of code or a key generated by the server when a form is loaded on a user's browser. This token is embedded within the form as a hidden field or attached to form submissions in some other secure manner.
3. Honeypot
The honeypot method involves creating a trap for bots, which are automated scripts used by spammers to fill out and submit web forms en masse. This trap is essentially a form field that is invisible to human users but detectable by bots. If the bot submits information into the hidden field, we know it isn't a human.
4. reCAPTCHA
reCAPTCHA is a security service provided by Google that protects your website from spam and abuse. It does this by employing advanced risk analysis techniques to tell humans and bots apart, ensuring that only legitimate users can interact with your site. Over the years, reCAPTCHA has evolved, offering several versions that enhance security without compromising user experience.
5. Form Field Validation
Form field validation is a crucial technique used in web development to ensure that the data entered by users into form fields is of the expected type, format, and within predefined limits. This process plays a significant role in protecting forms from invalid data, which could be unintentional (user errors) or intentional (malicious entries aimed at exploiting vulnerabilities).
We're here to
keep your forms secure.
Advanced Strategies for Spam Protection
Minimize spam without impacting user experience.
At the forefront of our defense mechanisms are Google's reCAPTCHA and CloudFlare's Turnstile service, complemented by CloudFlare's Web Application Firewall (WAF). These tools are adept at distinguishing genuine users from bots, minimizing spam without detracting from the user experience.
Best practices for ongoing protection.
- Keep your CMS and plugins up-to-date to close any security gaps.
- Regularly review form submission patterns for anomalies.
- Adjust spam detection settings as needed to keep up with new threats.
Frequently Asked Questions
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