# HUMAN

> HUMAN is a New York cybersecurity company protecting advertising, applications, and accounts from bots, fraud, and digital abuse. Its Human Defense Platform combines automated detection with Satori threat research; Sightline and AgenticTrust extend that work to governing AI agents.

- **Founded:** 2012
- **Headquarters:** New York, United States
- **Founders:** Tamer Hassan (Co-founder; Executive Chairman since January 2024), Michael Tiffany (Co-founder), Dan Kaminsky (Co-founder; late security researcher), Ash Kalb (Co-founder)
- **Products:** Human Defense Platform, HUMAN Sightline, AgenticTrust, Application Protection, Client-Side Defense / Code Defender
- **Notable:** Participated in the industry and law-enforcement response to 3ve and Methbot., Human Defense Platform included in TIME’s Best Inventions of 2023., Named a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Bot Management Software, Q3 2024.

## Products & services

- **Human Defense Platform** — Umbrella platform for advertising, application, and account protection, informed by shared telemetry and threat research.
- **HUMAN Sightline** — Cyberfraud defense combining detection, investigation, and governance across the customer journey.
- **AgenticTrust** — Identifies AI agents, evaluates trust, and gives organizations policies for automated interactions.
- **Application Protection** — Bot and abuse defenses for web, mobile, and API traffic, including scraping and account takeover.
- **Client-Side Defense / Code Defender** — Script visibility and client-side protection; licensing varies by tier and scope.
- **Page Intelligence** — Page-level invalid-traffic visibility after an advertising click.
- **Ad Click Defense** — Validates click signals to help platforms combat click fraud.
- **Ad Integrity Suite for Platforms** — Unifies invalid-traffic, brand-safety, and viewability signals for programmatic platforms; OpenX is the launch partner.
- **HUMAN Verified AI Agent** — MIT-licensed demonstration of agent authentication using HTTP Message Signatures and public-key cryptography.

## Achievements

- Participated in the industry and law-enforcement response to 3ve and Methbot.
- Human Defense Platform included in TIME’s Best Inventions of 2023.
- Named a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Bot Management Software, Q3 2024.
- Company reported verifying more than 20 trillion digital interactions weekly in October 2024.

## Latest updates

- **2026-10** — Announced Ad Integrity Suite for Platforms with OpenX as launch partner on October 5.
- **2026-09** — Announced a customer-journey protection partnership with Confused.com on September 8.
- **2025-12** — Announced cryptographic verification of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore browser traffic on December 16.
- **2025-07** — Introduced Sightline featuring AgenticTrust on July 30; published an open-source verified-agent demonstration on July 21.

## Links

- Website: https://www.humansecurity.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/humansecurityinc/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/SecureWithHUMAN
- GitHub: https://github.com/HumanSecurity
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secure_with_human

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Last updated: 2026-10-17