HUMAN Security is a cybersecurity firm dedicated to protecting enterprises from bot attacks and other forms of digital fraud. The company’s mission is to safeguard the integrity of the digital world by ensuring that all online interactions and transactions are authentic and secure. HUMAN Security aims to disrupt the economics of cybercrime by increasing the costs for attackers while reducing the costs of collective defense. This is achieved through the Human Defense Platform, which verifies the humanity of trillions of digital interactions weekly.
The company’s core goal is to provide comprehensive protection across the entire customer journey, from initial ad impressions to final transactions. HUMAN Security focuses on proactive defense, leveraging its Satori Threat Intelligence and Research Team to identify and mitigate emerging bot threats. The company is recognized for its solutions in programmatic ad fraud defense, client-side defense, and protection against transaction abuse and data contamination. HUMAN Security is considered a leader in bot detection and mitigation, aiming to build customer trust and safeguard significant daily transactions for global enterprises.
Offerings, Capabilities, and Integrations
HUMAN Security provides a unified platform designed to protect against sophisticated bot attacks, fraud, and account abuse. Its core strength lies in its ability to verify the humanity of more than 20 trillion digital interactions weekly across three billion unique devices. This is accomplished through the HUMAN Defense Platform, which analyzes over 2,500 signals per interaction to make a bot or not decision in milliseconds. This platform provides a significant competitive edge by offering collective protection against a wide array of digital threats, including ad fraud, data contamination, and transaction abuse. The company’s Satori Threat Intelligence and Research team proactively uncovers and disrupts bot-driven threats, further enhancing its defensive capabilities. HUMAN Security’s ability to integrate with existing technology partners and solutions allows for a strengthened and unified defense against digital attacks.
Products and Services
HUMAN Security organizes its products into several key protection areas, each addressing specific vulnerabilities in the digital customer journey. The company’s offerings are designed to combat threats ranging from ad fraud to account takeovers.
- Advertising Protection: This suite of products is designed to combat ad fraud and protect digital advertising activities. It includes solutions like Ad Fraud Defense, which provides pre-bid protection, and Ad Click Defense, which analyzes click events in real-time. Another key offering is Malvertising Defense, which protects against malicious advertising.
- Application Protection: These solutions are focused on mitigating malicious bot attacks to ensure trusted user interactions. This includes preventing scraping, data contamination, and other forms of abuse on web and mobile applications and APIs.
- Account Protection: This area focuses on safeguarding against account takeover and the creation of fake accounts. It includes features to block automated login attempts and monitor for compromised credentials.
- Client-Side Defense: This service is designed to protect sensitive data within browser scripts and help organizations comply with standards like PCI DSS.
A notable recent addition to its product lineup is HUMAN Sightline, a new capability within Bot Defender that provides AI-driven insights to detect and track specific attackers. The Human Defense Platform serves as the company’s flagship offering, unifying its various protection solutions.
Target Customers
HUMAN Security’s target customers are enterprises and internet platforms that require protection from sophisticated bot attacks, fraud, and account abuse. The company serves a wide range of industries, including advertising platforms, publishers, retail and e-commerce, financial services, SaaS platforms, streaming and gaming, travel and hospitality, healthcare, education, and the public sector. These customers benefit from HUMAN Security’s products and services by being able to safeguard their digital experiences, build customer trust, and protect revenue. For example, advertising platforms and publishers can protect their inventory from ad fraud, while e-commerce and financial services companies can prevent account takeovers and transaction abuse. The platform’s ability to minimize false positives is a key benefit, ensuring that legitimate user interactions are not hindered.
Cloud Integrations and Marketplaces
HUMAN Security offers integrations with major cloud platforms and is available on their respective marketplaces.
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
HUMAN Security is an AWS partner and its solutions are available on the AWS Marketplace. The company offers an integration with AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF) to help customers meet PCI DSS 4 requirements. The AWS Marketplace lists two products from HUMAN Security:
- Human Defense Platform: This platform provides protection against digital fraud and abuse across various attack surfaces.
- PCI DSS 4 Compliance powered by HUMAN Client-side Defense: This solution assists websites that accept online card payments in meeting new PCI DSS 4 requirements for managing scripts and headers on payment pages.
- Google Cloud
HUMAN Security is a Google Cloud Premier Partner, and its Human Defense Platform is available on the Google Cloud Marketplace. This integration provides an additional layer of security for applications running on Google Cloud to protect against automated attacks, client-side threats, and account fraud. The Human Defense Platform on Google Cloud addresses use cases such as Account Takeover, Transaction Abuse, Web Scraping, and Ad Fraud.
- Microsoft Azure
HUMAN Security provides an integration with Microsoft Azure Front Door, a cloud content delivery network (CDN) service.
Key People
- Chief Executive Officer: Stu Solomon
- Executive Chairman & Co-founder: Tamer Hassan
- COO & CFO: Isaac Itenberg
- President & CRO: Chris Scanlan
- Chief People Officer: Jackie Orris
- Chief Technology Officer: Christos Kalantzis
- Chief Marketing Officer: May Mitchell
- Chief Information Security Officer: Gavin Reid
- Chief Product Officer: Apurva Joshi
- General Counsel: Kirsten Canton
Key Facts
- Headquarters Location: New York, New York.
- Number of Employees: 201-500.
- Annual Revenue: $100 million.
- Parent Company: None.
- Subsidiary Companies: None.
- Publicly Listed: No.
Analyst Recognition
HUMAN Security is recognized by the following analyst group:
- Forrester: HUMAN Security was named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Bot Management, Q3 2024 report.
There is no indication from the available search results that HUMAN Security is formally recognized by Gartner in its Magic Quadrant reports, by IDC in its MarketScape reports, or by Everest Group in its PEAK Matrix® assessments.
