# Difference between Bot detection risk assessment and adaptive mfa risk assessment

**URL:** <https://community.auth0.com/t/difference-between-bot-detection-risk-assessment-and-adaptive-mfa-risk-assessment/96903>\
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**Created:** [December 21, 2022, 2:10pm UTC](https://community.auth0.com/t/difference-between-bot-detection-risk-assessment-and-adaptive-mfa-risk-assessment/96903 "2022-12-21T14:10:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![tharun\_abburi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/auth0/user_avatar/community.auth0.com/tharun_abburi/32/13837_2.png) [@tharun\_abburi](https://community.auth0.com/u/tharun_abburi)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2022, 2:10pm UTC](https://community.auth0.com/t/difference-between-bot-detection-risk-assessment-and-adaptive-mfa-risk-assessment/96903/1 "2022-12-21T14:10:38Z")

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Can someone please explain what is the major difference between Bot detection risk assessment and adaptive MFA risk assessment

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**Author:** ![hazelmarissa1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/auth0/user_avatar/community.auth0.com/hazelmarissa1/32/33661_2.png) [@hazelmarissa1](https://community.auth0.com/u/hazelmarissa1)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2022, 8:08am UTC](https://community.auth0.com/t/difference-between-bot-detection-risk-assessment-and-adaptive-mfa-risk-assessment/96903/3 "2022-12-26T08:08:49Z")

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Risk scoring. Risk scoring uses a data-driven risk engine to determine whether each sign-in event is likely to represent malicious activity[.](https://www.etenet.biz/)

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**Author:** ![tharun\_abburi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/auth0/user_avatar/community.auth0.com/tharun_abburi/32/13837_2.png) [@tharun\_abburi](https://community.auth0.com/u/tharun_abburi)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2023, 5:20am UTC](https://community.auth0.com/t/difference-between-bot-detection-risk-assessment-and-adaptive-mfa-risk-assessment/96903/4 "2023-01-02T05:20:21Z")

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is there any difference in the way auth0 does the risk assessment?for bot detection and adaptive mfa

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**Author:** ![tharun\_abburi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/auth0/user_avatar/community.auth0.com/tharun_abburi/32/13837_2.png) [@tharun\_abburi](https://community.auth0.com/u/tharun_abburi)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2023, 1:41pm UTC](https://community.auth0.com/t/difference-between-bot-detection-risk-assessment-and-adaptive-mfa-risk-assessment/96903/5 "2023-01-05T13:41:28Z")

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The Adaptive MFA Untrusted IP Assessor uses aggregated lists of IP addresses of known bad actors from across the internet to check if an IP address is present.

Bot Detection uses Machine Learning and our own tenant logs to identify patterns to determine the likelihood of whether or not an IP address is a Bot.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/auth0/original/3X/b/5/b560f266932fcce5d57f09a6595bd50518cae3f3.jpeg) [@system](https://community.auth0.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2023, 1:41pm UTC](https://community.auth0.com/t/difference-between-bot-detection-risk-assessment-and-adaptive-mfa-risk-assessment/96903/6 "2023-01-19T13:41:59Z")

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