Residential Proxy Detection

Fraudsters and attackers evade website protections by proxying through residential networks. Turn proxy use into a scored signal alongside IP reputation, credentials, device, behaviour, and event context.

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Residential proxy risk decision showing proxy tunnel evidence, IP reputation, credential status, session entropy, behaviour, score, and block action.

Residential Proxy Traffic Blends Into Legitimate Sessions

Residential proxy traffic often looks normal at first glance because requests exit through real consumer networks. Peakhour treats the proxy flag as one signal inside a wider risk decision with IP, credentials, device, behaviour, and request context before policy is applied.

Evades IP Reputation

Traffic appears to come from legitimate residential users, bypassing IP-based blocklists and threat intelligence.

Enables Large-Scale Fraud

Used for credential stuffing, ad fraud, and e-commerce fraud, leading to significant financial loss.

Facilitates Content Scraping

Allows bots to scrape pricing, content, and other proprietary data without being detected.

Residential proxy signal combined with IP reputation, credential, device, behaviour, and event context before scoring.

Proxy detection workflow sending combined risk signals to allow, challenge, block, or log actions.

Risk Signals Drive Allow, Challenge, and Block Decisions

Peakhour's Residential Proxy Detection (RESIP) identifies proxy usage with zero latency and feeds the result into a risk score, so trusted sessions can pass while uncertain or automated traffic is challenged, blocked, or logged with attached evidence.

Invisible, Real-Time Detection

Accurately determine if a request is from a proxy on a per-request basis, with no impact on user experience.
Flexible Rule Engine

Use proxy detection as a signal in our firewall rules. Block, challenge, or log traffic based on your specific security policies.
Comprehensive Analytics

Gain insights into proxy traffic patterns to refine your security strategy and understand your risk exposure.

Dashboard Evidence Keeps Proxy Decisions Verifiable

Visual roadmaps explain the decision flow. Dashboard evidence confirms how that flow behaves in production by showing risk inputs, selected action, and event context on the same suspicious request.

Signal Residential proxy detected Flag request origin path

Decision Challenge or block Apply risk-based action

Evidence Event remains explainable Support tuning and review

Dashboard event showing a residential proxy request with risk context and a challenge action recorded as operational evidence. — Production evidence

Security teams can verify that residential proxy signals are being actioned consistently without turning screenshots into the primary narrative.

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Online Fraud Prevention

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Proxy Abuse Reduced in Production

Customer examples that connect Peakhour controls to production outcomes.

Gumtree

Improving Traffic Quality and Reclaiming Platform Control

Gumtree, Australia's leading marketplace, battled significant bot traffic that skewed analytics, enabled scammers, and increased infrastructure costs. Peakhour's bot management solution improved the origin traffic mix, cleaned up campaign analytics, protected A/B testing data, and created a new revenue stream.

3.3x Cleaner Origin Mix Clean Campaign Analytics New Revenue Stream Created

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Risk score action panel challenging a suspicious residential proxy event.

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