Fighting Against Ticket Scalpers with Technology: Knowsec's Bull Shield
In the digital age, various ticketing systems have become an indispensable part of people's daily lives. Whether it's concert tickets, sports event admission tickets, hospital registrations, or limited-time offer product snappings, they all rely on online ticketing platforms. However, with the prosperity of the ticketing market, the phenomenon of ticket scalping has become increasingly rampant. They use technical means to seize scarce resources, seriously violating consumers' fair rights to purchase tickets and disrupting market order. In order to effectively combat illegal and criminal acts of ticket scalping, the Ministry of Public Security has specially deployed public security organs across the country to carry out a one-year special campaign, aiming to severely crack down on professional ticket scalper gangs, deeply punish illegal and criminal acts of using online "plug-in" software to grab tickets, and resolutely cut off the interest chain of collusion between inside and outside. This measure undoubtedly provides a strong guarantee for purifying the ticketing market and safeguarding consumers' rights and interests. However, in the face of the new trend of scalpers using technical means to grab tickets, relying solely on legal means is far from enough. Enhancing technical prevention capabilities and continuously optimizing the reservation ticketing system have become key measures to ensure the fairness and security of the ticketing system. In this context, Knownsec has launched the Bull Shield product to safeguard ticket purchasing fairness with the power of technology and help people purchase tickets with peace of mind.
The Bull Shield is an efficient protection tool developed by Knownsec in response to the characteristics of scalper ticket-grabbing software. It uses advanced identification technology to accurately identify the request characteristics of online scalper crawlers, such as scanner characteristics, identity disguise, and context behavior patterns, and realizes real-time blocking. At the same time, the Bull Shield also adopts human-machine identification technology. By giving network requests computing power human-machine challenges, such as browser computing power tests and visual challenges like verification codes, it effectively increases the cost of scalpers grabbing tickets and successfully intercepts a large number of malicious machine traffic. In addition, the Bull Shield also has intelligent speed-limiting technology. It can combine the characteristics of the protected business scenario and dynamically limit the access frequency of the ticket-grabbing interface, effectively reducing the performance consumption of the source station and blocking the high-frequency requests of online scalpers. The application of this technology not only improves the stability of the ticketing system but also provides consumers with a more fair ticket purchasing environment. It is worth mentioning that the Bull Shield has been connected to hundreds of trading and ticketing systems. It has accumulated ID numbers and mobile phone numbers used by the black industry for up to ten years, forming a strong risk control identification ability. It can identify and intercept scalper resources in the first place and ensure the security of the ticketing system. At the same time, relying on Knownsec's cloud defense big data platform's more than 12 years of network defense experience, the Bull Shield has also established a threat defense intelligence database of more than 300,000 malicious IPs and a global IPv4/IPv6 mapping intelligence database, realizing early defense and joint prevention and control collaborative defense against online scalpers. To help enterprises better protect the normal purchase of goods and reduce economic losses and poor user purchase experiences caused by scalpers, Knownsec has specially launched a free access activity for the Bull Shield. During the activity, new cloud defense users whose domain names are compliant and filed in mainland China can access the Bull Shield service for free. This measure not only reflects Knownsec's firm determination to combat ticket scalping but also shows its sense of social responsibility as a technology enterprise. The launch and application of the Bull Shield undoubtedly inject a clear stream into the ticketing market. It uses technological means to effectively combat ticket scalping behavior, safeguard consumers' fair rights to purchase tickets, and also provide enterprises and event organizers with a more secure and stable ticketing system. In the future, with the continuous progress of technology and the deepening of application, it is believed that the Bull Shield will play an even more important role in combating ticket scalping and contribute to building a more fair and orderly ticketing market. Here, we also call on consumers and enterprises to jointly participate in the action of combating ticket scalping and jointly maintain the fairness and order of the ticketing market. Let's work together to safeguard ticket purchasing fairness with the power of technology and make every ticket purchase a pleasant experience.