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White Ops Chief Scientist Dan Kaminsky to Keynote at Black Hat USA 2015 CISO Summit

NEW YORK, NY– July 21, 2015 – a pioneer in online fraud detection, today announced that Chief Scientist and Co-founder Dan Kaminsky will be a keynote speaker at Black Hat USA 2015 CISO Summit. His presentation, "Hope Amongst The Rubble: What Comes Next For Information Security?" will take place on August 4, 2015 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, NV.

 The CISO Summit is a new program scheduled for the day prior to the Black Hat USA 2015 briefings, Tuesday, August 4 in the Four Season Acacia Ballroom at Mandalay Bay. The summit is intended for CISOs and other information security executives to provide insight on the latest security trends and technologies.

Black Hat USA 2015 CISO Summit: Kaminsky is best known for his work finding a critical flaw in the Internet’s Domain Name System (DNS) and for leading what became the largest synchronized fix to the Internet’s infrastructure to date.

  • Keynote Session: "Hope Amongst The Rubble: What Comes Next For Information Security?"
  • Tuesday, August 4, 2015 at 8:45 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. PST
  • In the Four Season Acacia Ballroom at Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, NV

Also Meet White Ops at DEF CON 23:

This year at DEF CON, the world’s longest running and largest underground hacking conference, Kaminsky will be presenting, "I want these * bugs off my * Internet," on Saturday, August 8, 2015 at 4:00 p.m. PT. Kaminsky will share with attendees how to delve into a code base and walk through the performance, usability, maintainability and "debuggability” constraints it takes to make the web browser more secure. 

Principal Security Researcher Ryan Castellucci from White Ops will also be presenting, "Cracking Cryptocurrency Brainwallet” on Friday, August 7, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. PT. Castellucci will discuss the history and general concept of "brainwallets,” a way for truly paranoid cryptocurrency users to wager their fortunes on their ability to choose a good password or passphrase. As a 2014 finalist in Underhanded Crypto Contest, he will share his personal experience with brainwallets, passphrase security and Bitcoins.

White Ops offers the world’s first systematic, massively scalable, continuous anti-fraud solution for accurately isolating and eliminating bot-infected traffic. By applying the frictionless and invisible techniques of Side Channel Analysis across thousands of real-time user session variables, White Ops differentiates between a human and machine-driven request, across the full spectrum of impression and click fraud techniques—regardless of the sophistication of the bot programmer and their attempts to adapt and evade. This agile and deterministic approach is vastly more advanced and effective than methods generally employed by legacy fraud detection services, which rely largely on historical data and statistical and predictive analysis to estimate bot activity.

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White Ops is a pioneer in the detection of and systematic defense against bot and malware fraud, providing advertisers and enterprise businesses with the tools they need to eliminate fraud, raise their bottom lines and ensure the success of their campaigns and the security of their systems and data. White Ops' leading-edge technology combats criminal activity in a significantly different and more comprehensive way than any method currently on the market. White Ops differentiates between bot and human interaction in online advertising and publishing, enterprise business networks, e-commerce transactions, financial systems and more, allowing clients to remove and prevent fraudulent traffic and activity. By working with clients to cut off sources of bad traffic, White Ops makes bot and malware fraud unprofitable and unsustainable for the cyber criminals who ultimately profit from it -- an economic strategy that will eventually eradicate this type of fraud. On the web at White Ops.