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reCAPTCHA: Part of Google Cloud Fraud Defense
Stop automated attacks with modern bot protection
Secure your web and mobile apps against sophisticated threats with a frictionless solution. reCAPTCHA provides the core visual challenge engine powering the expanded Google Cloud Fraud Defense platform.
Stop advanced bots and agentic web threats. Discover Google Cloud Fraud Defense.
Features
Advanced bot and automated abuse detection
reCAPTCHA leverages a sophisticated and adaptable risk analysis engine to shield against automated software, thwarting abusive activities within an organization’s website and mobile apps.
Protect against online account takeovers and fraudulent users
reCAPTCHA provides the front-line bot defense to shield against automated credential stuffing. For comprehensive Account Defense that stops synthetic identities, account takeovers, and agentic abuse across the entire customer journey, take the next step with Google Cloud Fraud Defense.
Bot mitigation with frictionless user experience
Safeguards your website and mobile applications from abusive traffic without compromising the user experience. reCAPTCHA employs an invisible score-based detection mechanism to differentiate between legitimate users and bots or other malicious attacks.
Online scam protection against SMS toll fraud attacks
Stop high-velocity sign-up abuse and costly SMS pumping. SMS Defense is now included with the Google Cloud Fraud Defense platform.
Protect against fraudulent transactions
Shield your checkout funnels from automated carding and promo abuse. Advanced Transaction Defense that evaluates risk signals across the payment process is available through Google Cloud Fraud Defense.
Support for any endpoint
Protects your organization from fraud and abuse when dealing with traffic coming from any endpoint. In addition to website security, reCAPTCHA provides native mobile SDKs for iOS and Android. For endpoints that cannot run web JavaScript or mobile SDKs, reCAPTCHA Express can support clients like smart devices and IoT devices.
Online fraud management at Google-scale
Providing global insights against fraud using threat intelligence telemetry from trillions of transactions, billions of users and devices, and millions of websites, reCAPTCHA provides global insights against fraud. These insights power our detection models to help protect from fraudulent activity, spam, and abuse.
Website bot protection coverage for the entire customer journey
While reCAPTCHA secures your perimeter, Google Cloud Fraud Defense eliminates defensive gaps with a unified layer that protects the entire customer journey—from account registration to final payment.
AI/ML-powered threat detection
Uses a powerful combination of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), clustering, and neural networks to uncover the most sophisticated threats. Our AI/ML-driven threat detection is capable of identifying active attacks and uncovering the connections between adversaries and their operations.
Multi-factor authentication
Multi-factor authentication (MFA) with reCAPTCHA offers an enhanced level of security by introducing an additional authentication step for logins and other user flows. This approach helps organizations combat credential stuffing attacks and protect against account takeovers.
Password defense and malicious account identification
Prevent credential stuffing by flagging breached data and securing your platform from human fraud farms and automated agents. These deep identity-based protections are core components of Google Cloud Fraud Defense.
Integrate with your web application firewall (WAF)
Integrates with your existing WAF (web application firewall) to provide enhanced detection and protection at the network edge. This integration works with WAF providers like Google Cloud Armor, Fastly, and Cloudflare. By deploying reCAPTCHA as a service at the WAF layer, you can detect and block abusive traffic before it even reaches your web application's infrastructure.
Comprehensive web app and API protection (WAAP)
Google Cloud's web app and API protection (WAAP) solution combines reCAPTCHA Enterprise, Cloud Armor, and Apigee for powerful protection. reCAPTCHA Enterprise offers advanced bot detection and fraud protection, Cloud Armor acts as a web application firewall (WAF) to block attacks, and Apigee secures your APIs through management and analytics. Together, they provide a multi-layered defense against various web threats.
Adaptive risk-analysis engine
Analyzes a vast array of signals, including user behavior, device information, IP addresses, and historical interaction patterns to assess the risk level associated with a particular action on your site or mobile app. Organizations can fine-tune the risk analysis engine to your site’s specific needs.
Unified visibility and analytics dashboards
Use real-time dashboards and forensic tools to identify multi-stage campaigns by connecting the dots between isolated events. Enterprise-grade visibility for both human and agentic traffic is fully integrated into Google Cloud Fraud Defense.