Applies to Product - Power Pages
What’s happening?
Bad records are being created in bulk through the portal, leading to concerns of a potential bot attack. This primarily involves the creation of Contact records with invalid data.
Reason:
The records are being generated through the portal with bad data, which may give the impression of a bot attack. However, not all contacts are created by a bot, as indicated by the varied IP addresses associated with the record creation.
Resolution:
- Implement Captcha functionality on the portal to prevent automated submissions. This can be enabled by following the guidelines provided in the documentation for setting up user registration and authentication.
- Set up application insights or Google Analytics to monitor and analyze traffic to the portal, which can help identify the source of the bulk record creation.
- Consider blocking any identified malicious IP addresses to prevent further bad record creation.
- If necessary, clean up existing bad records from the system, ensuring that the data integrity is maintained moving forward.