Damballa, the experts in advanced threat protection and containment, today announced that the US Patent and Trademark Office has issued Damballa U.S. Patent 8,566,928 for its "method and system for detecting and responding to attacking networks" as well as U.S. Patent 8,578,497 for its "method and system for detecting malware" invention. The company also has several other patents under review.

"Damballa has invested heavily in world-class research that has enabled us to apply advanced behavioral detection techniques to identify hidden malware and other advanced threats well before other solutions," said Brian Foster, CTO for Damballa. "These patents represent the ongoing applied research efforts of our data scientists and demonstrate the innovations that Damballa is bringing to market as we apply advances in Big Data to the complex reality of advanced threats."

Both patents demonstrate Damballa's unique ability to determine and identify network vulnerabilities by analyzing malicious network traffic in real-time. Patent 8,566,928 describes methods for detecting a first network of compromised computers in a second network of computers, while patent 8,578,497 describes methods for analyzing NX domain names (i.e., domain names that are not registered) collected from an asset in a real network. The latter is the basis for a key component of Damballa's Domain Fluxing Profiler within the company's Failsafe advanced threat protection and containment platform.

About Damballa

As the experts in advanced threat protection and containment, Damballa discovers active threats that bypass all security prevention layers. Damballa identifies evidence of malicious network traffic in real time, rapidly pinpointing the compromised devices that represent the highest risk to a business. Our patent-pending solutions leverage Big Data from the industry's broadest data set of consumer and enterprise network traffic, combined with machine learning, to automatically discover and terminate criminal activity, stopping data theft, minimizing business disruption, and reducing the time to response and remediation. Damballa protects any device or OS including PCs, Macs, Unix, iOS, Android, and embedded systems. Damballa protects more than 400 million endpoints globally at enterprises in every major market and for the world's largest ISP and telecommunications providers. For more information, visitwww.damballa.com, or follow us on Twitter @DamballaInc.

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Kari Walker, 703-928-9996
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