Kasada, a cybersecurity company that provides the Polyform malicious botnet traffic protection solution, has raised $7 million in Series A funding. The financing comes after Kasada doubled its engineering and customer-facing teams over the past 12 months.Organizations can use Polyform for bot detection and mitigation across enterprise web applications, according to Kasada. Polyform is built as a cluster of reverse proxies, and it helps organizations filter malicious bot traffic.Polyform offers client fingerprinting, which assigns a "fingerprint" to each page-load request prior to browsing a website's content. In doing so, client fingerprinting helps organizations detect known and unknown bad bots, Kasada said.In addition, Polyform provides request modeling for cyber threat research and real-time request analysis. This helps organizations learn about cyber threats and uncover patterns in bot behavior, Kasada indicated.