White Ops


White Ops is an ad verification, bot detection, and cybersecurity firm.

History

White Ops was cofounded by chief scientist Dan Kaminsky in 2012 with White Ops president Michael Tiffany, Ash Kalb, and Tamer Hassan, the CEO of the company. Gene Fay is the company’s COO. It is headquartered in New York City and has other international offices.
In 2016 White Ops discovered the Methbot network of bots. Around six thousand online publishers and platforms were affected, including Facebook, generating $3-$5 million in fraudulent ad revenue per day. In 2017 White Ops then uncovered the 3ve bot network, one of the largest ad fraud enterprises yet discovered at 1.7m infected computers, leading to thirteen Department of Justice indictments in 2018 after an investigation of the network with Google and the FBI.
White Ops' detection products identify bots and bot networks and uses human verification as a part of the process. It processes a trillion transactions per month as of 2018.
In 2018 White Ops added television ad fraud prevention coverage.

Partnerships

White Ops has produced reports on ad fraud with the Association of National Advertisers since 2014. In 2017 White Ops began partnering with The Trade Desk to block fraudulent impressions before advertisers make bids. The following year, in 2018, WhiteOps began a similar partnership with Beachfront Media and video management platform Telaria. White Ops also partners with Adobe Advertising Cloud to provide independent third-party bot detection. In 2019 White Ops began partnering with Media.net.