Crime Fighters Wanted: A Peek Inside Impermium
Who would guess that tucked away on the second floor of what appears to be an ordinary office building near downtown Redwood City is a dedicated team of web lovin’, crime fightin’ defenders of the internet? Each morning they make their way by freeway, train or bike to fulfill their mission of battling the rising...
My First 30 Days at Impermium: Insights from Candace
Just over a month ago, I joined the Impermium team as the Business Operations Manager. Coming from Washington DC, it is a big change, and many people have asked about my new role and what it’s like to work at a fast-paced tech startup in Silicon Valley. It’s engaging and fun, and every day I...
Who’s Accountable for Illegal Online Content?
There’s a category of malicious and illegal activities happening every day on the Internet, yet unclear regulations and technical limitations leave site owners in a grey area regarding liability. In The Loophole, a panel of experts will take part in a heated debate surrounding these issues, covering what content is covered, who is responsible, where...
Program Management at Impermium: An Unexpected Journey
Last week, I talked about some of the challenges I’ve seen while trying to mold teams to fit rigid, defined processes that supposedly work for everyone. Here, I’d like to talk about how we’ve evolved our process to fit the individual team at Impermium. Getting to this point was difficult for me. I had to...
Impermium and ImageVision Partner to Protect Businesses Online
Impermium, the leading defender against account hacking and malicious user-generated content for web sites, and ImageVision, the pioneer in automated content safety for images and videos, today announce a strategic partnership to protect businesses from dangerous and explicit user-generated content. As we’ve warned before, incidents of malicious content and online abuse are rapidly increasing across...
Stop Social Spam Webinar: Emerging Online Threats & How to Prevent Them
Last week, Impermium partnered with TeleSign to present our first webinar, Stop Social Spam. During the discussion, Impermium CEO, Mark Risher and TeleSign VP, Forrest Hobbs gave their expertise surrounding internet security threats, particularly the dangers of social spam and online fraud. As discussed more thoroughly in our white paper, Stop Social Spam and Fraud...
Prevent Social Spam and Fraud From Sabotaging Your Brand
Social spam continues to proliferate social networks and media sites, exposing users to malicious and dangerous content, but many people foolishly don’t believe it’s a big problem. The truth is, social spam is hugely problematic – and becoming even more so. It’s not just an issue for website users, but also for online companies, who experience...
Locking the Front Door
The mass creation of bogus accounts on social media sites is a serious problem. Even with millions of dollars being spent on our site-integrity systems and hundreds of full-time employees dedicated to preventing social spam, keeping fraudsters and spammers at bay is a massive challenge for even the largest networks. Facebook estimates that 8.7 percent of...
The Dark Side of Social: Protect Your Brand from Abusive Social Spam
One of the great things about the Internet is how it allows people to connect and communicate in new ways, from sharing good news on a social network to debating a hot issue on a news blog. But just like in real life, the bad guys go where the people are – and many...
On The Move: San Jose Mercury News Highlights Impermium’s new COO, Sameer Bhalotra
“The Redwood City cybersecurity company, which protects websites and social networks from spam and abuse, named Sameer Bhalotra as chief operating officer. He was President Barack Obama’s former senior director of cybersecurity for the White House.” Take a look at the article in the San Jose Mercury News Print Edition Archive.
Impermium Joins $10 Million NSF Funded Research Program to Secure our Nation’s Cyberspace
The National Science Foundation has just announced Impermium as a collaborator with the International Computer Science Institute, the University of California San Diego, and George Mason University in a large-scale, 5-year cybersecurity research project funded through a $10 Million grant from the organizations’ Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program. Impermium will be working with several...
Kaggle Competition Helps Impermium Detect Insults in Social Commentary
Nov 20, 2012 • No Comments