# Vercel — Vercel security roundup: improved bot defenses, DoS mitigations, and insights

- Company: Vercel (vercel.com)
- Announced: 2025-05-23T13:00:00+00:00
- Category: capability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://vercel.com/blog/vercel-security-roundup-improved-bot-defenses-dos-mitigations-and-insights
- Record: https://forck.live/items/20870-vercel-security-roundup-improved-bot-defenses-dos-mitigations-and-insights
- Subject: v0 / AI SDK / AI Gateway

Vercel announced security enhancements including a new Bot Filter in public beta, a faster DoS mitigation infrastructure called Protectd, and proactive vulnerability management. The platform blocked 148 billion malicious requests from 108 million unique IP addresses since February, a 70% increase quarter-over-quarter. Protectd achieves a median mitigation time of 2.5 seconds for Layer 7 attacks.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://vercel.com/blog/vercel-security-roundup-improved-bot-defenses-dos-mitigations-and-insights:

> Our new Bot Filter entered public beta, free for all users on all plans. Bot Filter is a managed WAF ruleset that you can activate with one click, immediately challenging non-browser bot traffic without disrupting critical automations such as verified webhook providers (Googlebot, Stripe, PayPal) and internal cron jobs.

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