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Indonesia has been an overlooked e-commerce market since the pandemic, with roughly one-half of the population shopping online and $59billion predicted sales revenue in 2022. Meanwhile, cyberattacks targeting Indonesia have increased nearly six times in 2020 and cost the country’s online businesses dearly. Indonesian e-commerce firms are now at the make-or-break point for the continuous boom of their business.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The boom of Indonesian e-commerce<\/span><\/h2>\n

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The pandemic might be a changing point for Indonesia’s e-commerce market. According to Redseer, a consulting company, Indonesian online shoppers increased from 75 million before the covid outbreak to 85 million during the pandemic. Another good news is that <\/span>Indonesia’s e-commerce market is believed to have a 23.8% growth in 2022 and the sales revenue will reach $30 billion, predicted by GlobalData.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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With the fourth largest population in the world, Indonesia has 273.5 million people waiting to transfer to the digital ecosystem. Not to mention that 20% of the population is middle-class and has strong purchasing power. It is reasonable to believe that e-commerce growth will benefit Indonesia and its population in foreseeable future.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Not only does Indonesia have great spending potential, but it also has considerable e-commerce platforms to support consumption. You must have heard about or shopped on e-commerce marketplaces like Shopee, Tokopedia, Lazada, Blibli, etc. These are among Indonesia’s most popular online shopping platforms. Although they enjoy awesome web traffic, these platforms are significantly short in web security.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Insufficient web security in Indonesia<\/span><\/h2>\n

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ecommerceDB, a division of Statista, did a survey to find out the top 5 most visited Indonesian e-commerce marketplaces, and they are Tokopedia, Shopee, Bukalapak, Lazada, and Blibli. I’m sorry to say this, but only one of them has been deployed CAPTCHA verification for users at registration. I tried to register in the platforms mentioned above, it turns out that only Lazada requires CAPTCHA verification and the rest only ask for a real-time verification code, except Shopee, the second-largest marketplace there in terms of traffic asks for nothing.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Image source: Lazada<\/span><\/p>\n

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Image source: Tokopedia<\/span><\/p>\n

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Image source: bukalapak<\/span><\/p>\n

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Image source: Blibli<\/span><\/p>\n

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Image source: Shopee<\/span><\/p>\n

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Websites with high traffic. Poor web security. When you put the two things together, usually there would not be a happy ending. Actually, the harm has been done already. Tokopedia, an Indonesian e-commerce unicorn, suffered a database breach in March 2020, resulting in a data leak of 91 million users which was put up for sale on the dark web later.<\/span><\/p>\n

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At this make-or-break point, Indonesian e-commerce firms have to take a reliable user verification process into consideration, or else fraudulent actors will keep exploiting those unguarded websites by coming in and out freely, taking as many sought-after products or user data as possible.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Currently, CAPTCHA is one of the most direct solutions that e-commerce companies have at their disposal in their fight against account fraud, such as account takeover and fake user registrations. But CAPTCHAs are so commonplace across the Internet that many don’t recognize just how efficient they are. Like every other product, sometimes CAPTCHA needs to be sharpened and serviced to become a security service while delivering a better user experience.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Outsmart attackers with Adaptive CAPTCHA<\/span><\/h2>\n

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The reason why many think CAPTCHA is an annoying and time-consuming necessity of the internet is that they came across too many times deciphering distorted words and proving they know what a car looks like by clicking boxes. That’s illy sharpened and serviced CAPTCHAs or legacy CAPTCHAs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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With machine learning, artificial intelligence, behavior analysis, and so many new technologies, CAPTCHA has been a reassuring security measure while still offering good users a delight interaction or no interaction at all. <\/span>GeeTest Adaptive CAPTCHA<\/a> is a brand new approach provided by GeeTest.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ways of cyber attacks may change over time, but the underlying principles have not. All sorts of bot-driven attacks can be categorized into two types: <\/span>web simulator bypass<\/strong> and <\/span>API bypass<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Whether bypassing CAPTCHA via web simulators or APIs, attackers can not avoid a key step, that is, to obtain CAPTCHA challenges and solve them, which is the core of the CAPTCHA attack and defense.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The unique point of GeeTest Adaptive CAPTCHA is the <\/span>7-layer dynamic security strategy<\/strong>. It makes GeeTest Adaptive CAPTCHA an evolving solution that does not weaken over time, as it can adapt to the changing data it analyzes.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Try demo<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u00a07-layer dynamic security strategy<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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  1. JS dynamic obfuscation update<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Dynamic update of data<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Risk database matching<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. CAPTCHA types<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. CAPTCHA difficulty<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. Behavior algorithm model<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. Parameter encryption<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    The first layer: JS dynamic confusion update<\/strong><\/p>\n

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