Ellipsis Technologies announces WordPress form spam protection
October 30, 2019
Ellipsis Technologies announces today the release additional features for their WordPress Human Presence TM security plugin specifically designed for WordPress and focused on combating form spam for WordPress site owners. The Human PresenceTM plugin is now available on the WordPress Plugin Directory: https://wordpress.org/plugins/ellipsis-human-presence-technology.
The Human Presence TM plugin is a web security software technology that enables website owners to invisibly validate the presence of human visitors to their sites while flagging and deflecting traffic from automated and often malicious “bots.” With the Human PresenceTM solution, WordPress site owners can eliminate the need for testing human visitors, thus improving the user experience while taking positive action to prevent form spam.
By eliminating the need for CAPTCHA tests or other intrusive methods to verify human visitors, it allows for a smoother interaction on the site while ensuring that automated traffic is effectively flagged and deflected. This kind of protection is essential for maintaining the integrity of your website, but it’s only part of the equation. For your WordPress site to truly thrive, it’s crucial to pair this with reliable wordpress hosting. Quality hosting ensures that your site not only remains secure but also runs efficiently, providing a fast, dependable experience for your visitors. With the right hosting solution in place, combined with advanced security measures like the Human Presence™ plugin, you can focus on growing your site’s content and audience without worrying about the technical and security challenges.
Unwanted site traffic from bots is a constant source of threat and irritation for site owners and operators. Many websites today combat this problem by forcing all visitors to solve various Turing Tests, e.g. puzzles or tests where users are required to type in difficult-to-read characters such as CAPTCHA in order to prove they are human.
While partially effective, CAPTCHA-type solutions are not only intrusive but frustrate site visitors and decrease user satisfaction–at a real and significant cost to website owners. Human PresenceTM solves this problem with proprietary algorithmic models that monitor and measure user behavior patterns in the background to determine in real-time whether the behavioral characteristics of each site visitor matches historical human patterns and should continue on the site unencumbered.
The Human PresenceTM solution is completely transparent and frictionless to the site visitor. Human PresenceTM utilizes proprietary technology to identify the non-human behavior within milliseconds and allows human visitors to proceed without interference while choosing to automatically block the suspicious non-human traffic without the use of outdated and unreliable CAPTCHA Turing Tests. Moreover, Human PresenceTM identifies and blocks non-browser spambots that are making automated HTTP requests to a form’s action clogging up a site’s blog comments, contact, lead-gen, newsletter sign-up, and all other web forms. This allows the site owner to provide a totally seamless user experience for their actual human customers while identifying and defending against spam bots and other malicious traffic.
The Human PresenceTM technology is based on a set of proprietary algorithms, human behavior analysis, advanced risk detection and machine learning techniques. The machine learning tools allow the Ellipsis Human Presence TechnologyTM model to evolve and continually improve over time, providing highly sensitive discrimination between human and bot behaviors. The WordPress Human Presence TM solution can be found in the WordPress Plugin Directory: https://wordpress.org/plugins/ellipsis-human-presence-technology.
As Ellipsis CEO Bill West explains: “We developed the WordPress Human PresenceTM technology to solve the problems that site owners had experienced using traditional techniques to detect bot traffic. Our approach is unique in that it focuses on modeling human behaviors, rather than just spotting bot markers to clearly identify a human presence on the site. With the WordPress Human PresenceTM solution, we can greatly improve the user experience for human site visitors by invisibly detecting spam bots and other malicious bots while eliminating the need to subject human site visitors to validation testing of any kind.”
For more information please contact Ellipsis at [email protected] or visit the Ellipsis website at www.ellipsistech.io.
About Ellipsis Technologies
Ellipsis is a software technology company headquartered in Greenville, South Carolina that has developed a proprietary web security technology, Human PresenceTM, which allows a website owner to invisibly detect human site visitors while quarantining all suspicious visitors or bots.
