Anti-automation

V2.4.1

Verify that anti-automation controls are in place to protect against excessive calls to application functions that could lead to data exfiltration, garbage-data creation, quota exhaustion, rate-limit breaches, denial-of-service, or overuse of costly resources.

Required for Level 2 and 3

CAPEC™ (3.9): 125, 130, 2, 212, 215, 227, 469

V2.4.2

Verify that business logic flows require realistic human timing, preventing excessively rapid transaction submissions.

Required for Level 3

CAPEC™ (3.9): 125, 2, 212, 227, 26, 469

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