HUMAN Security
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UnclaimedHUMAN Security is a cybersecurity company that protects the digital customer journey from bots, fraud, and abuse across advertising, applications, accounts, and transactions.
Last updated September 26, 2026
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Overview
HUMAN Security (commonly branded HUMAN) is an American cybersecurity company that safeguards the integrity of digital interactions and transactions. Its unified platform verifies whether online traffic comes from humans, bots, or AI agents, and applies that decisioning to protect advertising, applications, accounts, and transactions. The company states that it verifies more than 20 trillion digital interactions a week, giving it the scale to detect and mitigate sophisticated bot attacks, ad fraud, account takeover, scraping, and other forms of cyberfraud while minimizing false positives. The company began as White Ops, founded in 2012 by Tamer Hassan, Michael Tiffany, Dan Kaminsky, and Ash Kalb. According to the company's own account, its story started in the back of a sci-fi bookstore in Brooklyn, New York, where the founders laid the foundation for a "bot or not" company. White Ops built a reputation for detecting bot fraud in digital advertising, famously exposing the "Methbot" operation, and later expanded into broader bot mitigation and fraud prevention. The company rebranded as HUMAN Security in 2021 to reflect a wider mission of protecting the entire customer journey. HUMAN's offerings span advertising protection (ad fraud, ad quality, brand safety, click fraud, malvertising, viewability, and agentic visibility), application protection (bot detection and mitigation, scraping, data contamination, AI and LLM governance, agentic commerce), and account protection (account takeover, fake account creation, and authenticated interactions). The company markets a single unified platform that delivers intent-rich signals, adaptive detection, and high-fidelity decisioning from the first ad impression through on-platform transactions. HUMAN is privately held and headquartered in New York. Its executive leadership team includes CEO Isaac Itenberg, President of GTM Chris Scanlan, Chief Technology Officer Christos Kalantzis, CISO Gavin Reid, Chief Strategy Officer John Searby, Chief People Officer Jackie Orris, General Counsel Kirsten Canton, GM of Media Security Jay Benach, SVP and Global Head of Marketing Sarah Acker, and SVP of Finance Gavin Power. The company has been recognized by industry analysts and awards, including being named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™ for Bot Management Software (Q3 2024) and for Bot and Agent Trust Management Software (Q2 2026), inclusion of its Human Defense Platform in TIME's Best Inventions of 2023, and being named Security-as-a-Service Provider of the Year in 2024.
History
HUMAN Security was founded in 2012 as White Ops by Tamer Hassan, Michael Tiffany, Dan Kaminsky, and Ash Kalb. According to the company's own history, the founders began working in the back of a sci-fi bookstore in Brooklyn, New York, building the foundation for a "bot or not" company. White Ops focused on detecting bot fraud in digital advertising, an area where automated traffic was draining advertiser budgets and distorting measurement. The company gained prominence for exposing large-scale bot operations, most notably the "Methbot" scheme, which demonstrated the scale and sophistication of ad fraud. Over the following decade, White Ops expanded its technology from advertising fraud detection into broader bot mitigation, account protection, and application security. In 2021, the company rebranded as HUMAN Security to reflect a broader mission: protecting the integrity of the entire digital customer journey, from the first ad impression through account login and on-platform transactions. The rebrand signaled a shift from a point solution for ad fraud to a unified platform addressing multiple threat surfaces. HUMAN's platform now verifies more than 20 trillion digital interactions a week, according to the company, and is used by enterprises to distinguish between humans, bots, and AI agents. The company has continued to add capabilities in response to evolving threats, including AI and LLM governance, agentic commerce protection, and agentic visibility. It has received recognition from industry analysts and awards, including being named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™ for Bot Management Software (Q3 2024) and for Bot and Agent Trust Management Software (Q2 2026), inclusion of its Human Defense Platform in TIME's Best Inventions of 2023, and being named Security-as-a-Service Provider of the Year in 2024. The company remains privately held and is headquartered in New York.
- 2026
Named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Bot and Agent Trust Management Software, Q2 2026.
- 2024
Named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Bot Management Software, Q3 2024; awarded Security-as-a-Service Provider of the Year.
- 2023
Human Defense Platform included in TIME's Best Inventions of 2023.
- 2021
Rebranded from White Ops to HUMAN Security.
- 2012
Founded as White Ops by Tamer Hassan, Michael Tiffany, Dan Kaminsky, and Ash Kalb.
Products and positioning
A unified platform for trusted digital interactions and transactions, protecting the entire customer journey from bots, fraud, and abuse with scale, speed, and decision precision.
Human Defense Platform
Unified platform for bot and fraud prevention across advertising, applications, accounts, and transactions.
Advertising Protection
Protects against ad fraud, ad quality issues, brand safety risks, click fraud, malvertising, and viewability challenges.
Application Protection
Mitigates bot attacks, scraping, data contamination, and provides AI/LLM governance and agentic commerce protection.
Account Protection
Prevents account takeover, fake account creation, and secures authenticated interactions.
Recent events
Reported
InMobi partners with Human Security on in-app advertising security[6]
InMobi partnered with Human Security, integrating Human’s MediaGuard solution and joining the Human Collective as part of efforts to combat malicious bot activity and advertising fraud.
- Unconfirmed
Reported
White Ops acquired by investor group[7]
White Ops announced that it had been acquired by Goldman Sachs' Merchant Banking Division in partnership with ClearSky Security and NightDragon. The transaction's terms were not disclosed.
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