Security News

Goldman Sachs Buys Anti-Bot Startup White Ops
2020-12-28 17:43

Fraud and bot-detection specialists White Ops has been acquired by the Goldman Sachs merchant banking division in partnership with investment firms ClearSky Security and NightDragon. Based in New York City, White Ops protects businesses and online e-commerce platforms from sophisticated bots that disrupt and hijack trillions of transactions globally.

White Ops Application Integrity: Protecting enterprises from sophisticated bot attacks
2020-02-21 03:00

White Ops, the global leader in bot mitigation, announced the release of Application Integrity, a new offering designed to protect enterprises from sophisticated bot-based threats including account takeover, automated account creation, and web scraping. Leveraging the industry leadership the company has fostered with its Advertising Integrity and Marketing Integrity products that today verify the humanity of more than 1 trillion interactions per week, Application Integrity enables security teams to best protect their applications from sophisticated bot attacks.

New team of White Ops experts to help clients and security practitioners fight sophisticated bot attacks
2020-02-13 02:15

White Ops, the global leader in bot mitigation, announced the formation of the Satori Threat Intelligence and Research Team, a specialized team dedicated to researching the threats and trends that organizations are facing from sophisticated bot attacks. The primary focus for the Satori team is offering data-driven, evidence-based guidance and context on investigations and actionable recommendations to responses on bot attacks for White Ops' clients and security practitioners.

White Ops appoints Dr. Russell Handorf to Principal Threat Intelligence Hacker
2020-01-26 23:30

White Ops, the global leader in bot mitigation, verifying the humanity of more than 1 trillion digital interactions per week, announced the appointment of Dr. Russell Handorf, former Computer Scientist with the FBI, to Principal Threat Intelligence Hacker. In his new role, Dr. Handorf will lead investigations and operations into dark corners of the open, deep, and dark net to uncover and detail the workings of cybercriminals in an effort to protect White Ops customers-and internet customers on the whole-from malicious activity and sophisticated bot attacks.

White Ops appoints Rhushabh ‘Rush’ Mehta as Sr. VP of Engineering
2020-01-17 00:00

White Ops, the global leader in bot mitigation verifying the humanity of more than 1 trillion digital interactions per week, announced the appointment of Rhushabh 'Rush' Mehta, former Head of Foundational Technology at Audible, an Amazon Company, to White Ops Sr. Vice President of Engineering. In his new role, Rush will lead White Ops' development efforts to further accelerate the innovation of the White Ops Bot Mitigation platform and associated products including White Ops Advertising Integrity and Marketing Integrity, to protect the world's largest enterprises, internet platforms, demand-side platforms, supply-side platforms, publishers, and brands from sophisticated bot attacks.

White Ops appoints Tamer Hassan as CEO
2019-04-15 23:00

White Ops, the global leader in bot fraud protection, announced that its Board of Directors has named co-founder Tamer Hassan Chief Executive Officer. Hassan will assume leadership of the Company...