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Digital Element Wins “Groundbreaking Cybersecurity Analytics” and Earns “Publisher’s Choice for Threat Intelligence” in 12th Annual Global InfoSec Awards at #RSAC 2024

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (MAY 6, 2024) – Digital Element, the global IP geolocation and audience insights leader, today announced the company has won the Groundbreaking Cybersecurity Analytics and the Publisher’s Choice of Threat Intelligence awards from Cyber Defense Magazine (CDM), the industry’s leading electronic information security magazine.

“As the cybersecurity landscape becomes increasingly complex, IP address analytics are becoming indispensable for organizations seeking robust security solutions,” said Jerrod Stoller, president of Digital Element. “We knew the competition for these awards would be tough and with leading infosec experts serving as judges we couldn’t be more pleased to receive this award.”

“We scoured the globe looking for cybersecurity innovators that could make a huge difference and potentially help turn the tide against the exponential growth in cyber-crime. Digital Element is absolutely worthy of these coveted awards and consideration for deployment in your environment,” said Yan Ross, Global Editor of Cyber Defense Magazine.

Digital Element delivers detailed intelligence on IP address activities, offering valuable insights that guide decision-making. This “IP Intelligence data” encompasses more than just geographical information, providing a deeper understanding of a device or its user’s intentions.

The company’s in-depth analytics reveal vital audience details such as VPN and proxy detection, device counts per IP address, IP stability, and more. By identifying VPNs and proxies, users can block harmful attempts to disguise IP addresses, enhancing control over the dissemination of digital content like streaming media and advertisements.

R&D is at the heart of Digital Element’s IP analytics technology. Our dedicated team of industry experts continuously innovates new ways to mine IP address data for uncovered context and the hidden clues that indicate user intent, and potentially bad actors trying to disrupt legitimate business.

The key to any successful cyber defense program is identifying a threat before it becomes problematic. Digital Element’s vast collective of IP address intelligence provides businesses with the tools and insights to proactively identify suspicious behavior, revolutionizing a new approach to cybersecurity.

About Digital Element

Digital Element is the global IP geolocation and intelligence leader. In business for more than two decades, the company has unrivaled expertise in leveraging IP address insights to deliver new value to companies in a privacy-sensitive, transparent manner. Digital Element provides clients with innovative solutions to optimize engagement across industries and applications, creating unique value at every consumer touchpoint. Many of the world’s largest websites, brands, security companies, ad networks, social media platforms, and mobile publishers trust Digital Element’s technology for advertising optimization, localization of content, enhanced analytics, digital rights management and the prevention of online fraud.

Visit www.digitalelement.com for more information on how to bring the power of location to the online world. Follow us on LinkedIn and X @DigitalElement then like us on Facebook

Headquartered in Atlanta and London, Digital Element is a division of Digital Envoy, Inc.

About CDM InfoSec Awards

This is Cyber Defense Magazine’s twelfth year of honoring InfoSec innovators from around the Globe. Our submission requirements are for any startup, early stage, later stage, or public companies in the INFORMATION SECURITY (INFOSEC) space who believe they have a unique and compelling value proposition for their product or service. Learn more at www.cyberdefenseawards.com

About the Judging

The judges are CISSP, FMDHS, CEH, certified security professionals who voted based on their independent review of the company submitted materials on the website of each submission including but not limited to data sheets, white papers, product literature and other market variables. CDM has a flexible philosophy to find more innovative players with new and unique technologies, than the one with the most customers or money in the bank. CDM is always asking “What’s Next?” so we are looking for best of breed, next generation InfoSec solutions.

About Cyber Defense Magazine

Cyber Defense Magazine is the premier source of cyber security news and information for InfoSec professions in business and government. We are managed and published by and for ethical, honest, passionate information security professionals. Our mission is to share cutting-edge knowledge, real-world stories and awards on the best ideas, products, and services in the information technology industry. We deliver electronic magazines every month online for free, and special editions exclusively for the RSA Conferences. CDM is a proud member of the Cyber Defense Media Group. Learn more about us at https://www.cyberdefensemagazine.com and visit https://www.cyberdefensetv.com and https://www.cyberdefenseradio.com to see and hear some of the most informative interviews of many of these winning company executives. Join a webinar at https://www.cyberdefensewebinars.com and realize that infosec knowledge is power.

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Prestigious International Awards Program Recognizes Outstanding Data Technology Products and Companies

ATLANTA – April 11, 2024 – Digital Element, the global IP geolocation and audience insights leader, today announced that it has been selected as the winner of the “Data Solution of the Year for Marketing” award in the 5th annual Data Breakthrough Awards program conducted by Data Breakthrough, an independent market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies and products in the global data technology market today.

Digital Element provides intelligence on how IP addresses behave, enabling extensive insights into IP addresses that marketers can use to make informed decisions. This “IP Intelligence data” goes beyond location to help contextualize a device or the intent of the device user.

The Company’s extensive analytics uncover other crucial audience insights, including nearby points of interest, VPN and proxy identification, demographic information, and more. With VPN and proxy Identification, users can detect and prevent malicious IP address masking, and enable greater control over the distribution of digital content including streaming services and advertisements.

Through carrier data, users can enable stronger targeting of mobile users based on ISP, mobile carrier, mobile country code, and mobile network code information. Additional audience insights include domain names tied to given IP addresses, companies and organizations associated with them, ASN, demographics, and more.

“We’re incredibly honored to receive the ‘Data Solution of the Year for Marketing’ award from Data Breakthrough. With marketers facing an ever-growing concern over signal loss, IP address analytics will play an even greater role as companies look towards new solutions for ad targeting and measurement,” said Jerrod Stoller, President of Digital Element. “An IP address is a unique identifier but by itself, it doesn’t tell us much about the device or user. Our focus on IP intelligence analytics allows marketers to build context around audiences and make smarter decisions about who to target in a relevant, cost-effective and privacy-compliant manner.”

The annual Data Breakthrough Awards is the premier awards program founded to recognize the data technology innovators, leaders and visionaries from around the world in a range of categories, including DataOps, Data Analytics, AI, Business Intelligence, Data Privacy, Data Storage and many more. The 5th annual Data Breakthrough Award program attracted thousands of nominations from across the globe.

“Digital Element empowers marketers to make better decisions and optimize marketing campaigns. Third-party cookies are going away and VPN usage has added complication for marketers who need new approaches to uncover audience insights. One data category that has spurred innovation is IP address data,” said Steve Johansson, Managing Director, Data Breakthrough. “Digital Elements’ focus on IP Intelligence leads to a higher degree of relevance in targeting and helps marketers develop deeper profiles of target audiences, resulting in improved ad conversion rates, optimized campaigns, and growth in addressable markets.”

Additionally, Digital Element’s IP intelligence data facilitates e-commerce by allowing brands to personalize content and advertising, helps marketers identify click and app-install farms, and reduces ad fraud. The solution is also inherently privacy-complaint in that no personally identifiable information (PII) data is ever collected or stored.

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About Digital Element

Digital Element is the global IP geolocation and intelligence leader. In business for more than two decades, the company has unrivaled expertise in leveraging IP address insights to deliver new value to companies in a privacy-sensitive, transparent manner. Leveraged by the world’s most recognized brands, Digital Element provides clients with innovative solutions designed to optimize engagement across industries and applications, creating unique value at every consumer touchpoint. Many of the world’s largest websites, brands, security companies, ad networks, social media platforms and mobile publishers have trusted Digital Element’s technology to target advertising, localize content, enhance analytics, and manage content rights as well as detect and prevent online fraud.

Visit www.digitalelement.com for more information on how to bring the power of location to the online world. Follow us on. LinkedIn and Twitter@DigitalElement then like us on Facebook

Headquartered in Atlanta and London, Digital Element is a division of Digital Envoy, Inc.

About Data Breakthrough

Part of the TechBreakthrough organization, a leading global provider of market intelligence and recognition platforms for technology innovation and leadership, the Data Breakthrough Awards program is devoted to honoring innovation and market disruption in data technologies, services, companies and products. The global Data Breakthrough Awards program provides a forum for public recognition around the achievements of data companies and solutions in categories including data analytics, management, infrastructure and hardware, storage, Business Intelligence and more. For more information visit DataBreakthroughAwards.com

Tech Breakthrough LLC does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in our recognition programs, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with award designations. Tech Breakthrough LLC recognition consists of the opinions of the Tech Breakthrough LLC organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Tech Breakthrough LLC disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this recognition program, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

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New IP Characteristics database harnesses IP address metadata, brings contextual IP address data to supercharge insights, and enables greater protection against the challenge of location obfuscation and identity masking

Atlanta, GA – November 14, 2023 –  Digital Element, the global IP geolocation and audience insights leader, today announced the groundbreaking addition of a proprietary IP Characteristics (IPC) database to its Nodify threat intelligence platform. This cutting-edge technology provides data analysts with an unprecedented level of contextual understanding around IP addresses, allowing them to leverage historic observations including, location, persistence, range and activity, to determine the relative security risk associated with an IP address.  These insights offer a new level of intelligence to empower organizations to make informed decisions in areas crucial to cybersecurity, such as fraud detection and threat mitigation.

Traditionally, IPs have been susceptible to masquerading as hubs for malicious activities, making them challenging to identify. According to data from Digital Element’s platform, the use of residential proxies has increased by 66% in the past six months, highlighting a growing and troubling trend.

With Nodify analysts and cybersecurity teams are armed with insights to understand what IP addresses are linked to VPNs or Proxies, but given the dynamic nature of IP addresses, not all nefarious associations can be identified in real-time. With the addition of the IPC database, Digital Element is able to identify IP addresses that have not been associated with a VPN or proxy network, but display anomalous characteristics that provide context to demonstrate its potential to be associated with nefarious activity. 

“The massive increase in the use of VPNs and residential proxy networks has shifted the cybersecurity landscape tremendously,” said Vinod Kashyap, Chief Product Officer, Digital Envoy,  parent company of Digital Element. “With the introduction of IP Characteristics, we are arming businesses with the tools needed to proactively identify and combat suspicious behavior, revolutionizing the way we approach cybersecurity.”

Digital Element is able to provide an unparalleled level of contextual detail by analyzing several key metadata characteristics of IP addresses:

• Activity – The number of devices that have been connected to an IP address
• Location -The number of locations an IP address has been observed 
• Range -The range of distances between IP address observations 
• Persistence -The length an IP address has been in the same location 

The IPC database augments Digital Element’s Nodify threat intelligence, an innovative IP data analytics tool, offering a solution for businesses seeking to protect digital infrastructure, enforce digital rights management strategies, and reduce fraud by leveraging data to inform risk analysis and response.

To learn more about IP Characteristics by Digital Element, please visit: https://www.digitalelement.com/nodify.

About Digital Element

Digital Element is the global IP geolocation and intelligence leader. In business for more than two decades, the company has unrivaled expertise in leveraging IP address insights to deliver new value to companies in a privacy-sensitive, transparent manner. Leveraged by the world’s most recognized brands, Digital Element provides clients with innovative solutions designed to optimize engagement across industries and applications, creating unique value at every consumer touchpoint. Many of the world’s largest websites, brands, security companies, ad networks, social media platforms and mobile publishers have trusted Digital Element’s technology to target advertising, localize content, enhance analytics, and manage content rights as well as detect and prevent online fraud.

Visit www.digitalelement.com for more information on how to bring the power of location to the online world. Follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter @DigitalElement then like us on Facebook

Headquartered in Atlanta and London, Digital Element is a division of Digital Envoy, Inc.

Media Contact:

Kyle Kuhnel 

kyle@broadsheetcomms.com

New Partnership Empowers Developers to Leverage Global IP Geolocation and Intelligence Services for Optimal Security

ATLANTA, May 4, 2023 — Digital Element, the global IP geolocation and audience insights leader, today announced its partnership with Pangea, the first Security Platform as a Service (SPaaS). Through this partnership, Pangea developers will have access to the combined strength of Pangea’s unified APIs along with Digital Element’s robust security intelligence.

Digital Element’s services delivered through Pangea APIs cover 99.9999% of all routable IP addresses in over 252 countries worldwide. Digital Element’s services are audited for accuracy and offer total unique location counts of over 4.1M, including over 331K cities and 3.9M postal code levels.

“We’re thrilled to be partnering with Pangea to provide developers with the IP geolocation and intelligence they need to make smarter and more secure decisions,” said Jerrod Stoller, President of Digital Element. “With Digital Element’s global IP coverage and up-to-date intelligence, developers can now build applications that optimize user experiences and protect users from fraud and other malicious activities. This is a major step forward in advancing the developer community.”

This partnership will allow developers to leverage Digital Element’s powerful geolocation and intelligence services to prevent online fraud, localize content, enhance analytics, target mobile users, improve online advertising, and manage digital rights.

Digital Element is now integrated into four Pangea services; the new Pangea services include:

• Geolocate IP: Pinpoint users’ geographic location from just their IP address, and uncover other actionable insights like demographic data and connection type. Accuracy rates of 99.99% at a country level, 98%+ at a regional level, and 97%+ at a city level – globally. Coverage of 99.9999% of all seen IP addresses worldwide that are still observable for devices with GPS turned off. Digital Element takes IP-based location targeting to the next level by combining traditional infrastructure analysis, insights gleaned from a network of global commercial partners, and location intelligence provided from mobile devices and billions of real-time data signals.
• Domain: Resolve an IP to its domain. The domain database is an accurate representation of domain names for IP addresses. With patented domain name expansion and injection algorithms, Digital Element has been able to increase the number of IPs associated with domain names.
• Proxy: Detect connections through a proxy. Digital Element’s industry-leading proxy data is gathered via their unique proxy analyzer, which combs alleged proxy lists and stores the data for analysis. IP addresses are constantly evaluated and re-evaluated to see if they exhibit proxy-specific behavior, such as requiring login credentials.
• VPN: Detect connections through a VPN by leveraging a 400+ VPN Proxy database that provides additional insights around the proxy hosts as either VPN or DNS. The Proxy Identification database also highlights the individual IP address tied to the VPN or DNS proxy.

“We are excited to partner with Digital Element to bring their world-class IP geolocation and intelligence services to our platform,” said Rich Hlavka, VP of Business Development and Partner Alliances at Pangea. “Pangea continues to empower developers to leverage our comprehensive and streamlined set of APIs in a wide variety of critical application scenarios, and this partnership brings a new level of security functionality to developers.”

Previously only available to large enterprise Security Operations Centers, these services bring geolocation and intelligence to application developers for the first time. These services can then be easily incorporated into applications to make advanced security decisions in real-time. More importantly, these services are offered through a pay-as-you-go pricing model, making them much more accessible to the developer community.

For more information about Pangea’s partnership with Digital Element, visit Pangea.

About Digital Element

Digital Element is the global IP geolocation and intelligence leader. In business for more than two decades, the company has unrivaled expertise in leveraging IP address insights to deliver new value to companies in a privacy-sensitive, transparent manner. Leveraged by the world’s most recognized brands, Digital Element provides clients with innovative solutions designed to optimize engagement across industries and applications, creating unique value at every consumer touchpoint. Many of the world’s largest websites, brands, security companies, ad networks, social media platforms and mobile publishers have trusted Digital Element’s technology to target advertising, localize content, enhance analytics, and manage content rights as well as detect and prevent online fraud.

Visit www.digitalelement.com for more information on how to bring the power of location to the online world. Follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter @DigitalElement then like us on Facebook.

Headquartered in Atlanta and London, Digital Element is a division of Digital Envoy, Inc.

About Pangea

Pangea is the first Security Platform as a Service (SPaaS) delivering comprehensive security functions which app developers can leverage with a simple call to Pangea’s APIs. The platform offers foundational security services such as Authentication, Authorization, Audit Logging, Secrets Management, Entitlement and Licensing. Other security functions include PII Redaction, Embargo, as well as File, IP, URL and Domain intelligence.

Just as you would use AWS for compute, Twilio for communications, or Stripe for payments – Pangea provides security functions directly into your apps. Pangea unifies security for developers, delivering a single platform where API-first security services are streamlined and easy for any developer to deliver secure user experiences.

For more information, please visit pangea.cloud or follow Pangea at linkedin.com/company/pangea-cyber or @PangeaCyber on Twitter.

Pangea is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

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