What’s New in December

From the HUMAN (clean) Team

Thank you for a wonderful 2022. We wish you a Happy, Healthy, and Safe 2023!

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What’s New in November

✨Groundbreaking and Exciting News From clean.io !✨

We are thrilled to join forces with HUMAN! As we move forward under HUMAN - the global leader in safeguarding enterprises and media from digital attacks - we are unlocking real-time anti-malvertising together to stop #fraud at the source.

As a cybersecurity company looking to achieve end-to-end protection across the supply chain, HUMAN is making strategic acquisitions to provide enhanced protection against automated threats for customers.

Read the press release for the details!

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What’s New in October

Advanced Threat Analytics Dashboard

We’re excited to announce the rollout of our new advanced Threat Analytics section.  These new reporting capabilities provide deeper insights into the kinds of threats, where they originate, and which users they impact.

Threat Class Reporting

Now you can go beyond the types of attacks and dig down into which Threat Classes are trying to impact your users.  Threat Classes are groups of threats that have the same M.O. and can be attributed to the same bad actor, even as signatures and indicators mutate. With over 30 threat classes identified by Clean, tracking these trends provides reliable insights into which platforms individual attackers are using, which types of devices and OS’es they’re after, and which country they are targeting.

Here’s what's new in Threat Analytics:

• Easily compare different threat classes:  The new analytics tab has been designed to give you quick access to compare trends for each of the different threat classes. The line graph displays the daily volume of threats prevented for the selected date range and sites. This can be toggled to view other data points for selected filters, such as SSP, DSP, Device Type, OS, and Country. The total volume for each of these data points is also displayed.
  
  
  
• Using Smart Filters to analyze specific threats: Individual threats can be selected to isolate SSP, DSP, device type, operating system, and country statistics. Because a threat class originates from 1 source, the ‘where it's coming from' and ‘who it's targeting’ is more meaningful and predictable for a single threat class than it is for all prevented attacks.
  
  
  
  
• Combine multiple filters to gain insight: Any combination of threat class, SSP, DSP, Operating System, and country selections can be chosen in order to analyze the data from every angle.  Often useful to look at trends for a specific SSP, for specific threats, in specific regions.
  
  

Conclusion
These insights should help provide more meaningful context on where threats are coming from and who is being targeted.  As always, Clean’s solution provides publishers with the utmost confidence that all of these attacks are being mitigated without jeopardizing revenue, so through the information available, additional action is not required.

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What’s New in September

What To Do When Bad Ads Get Past Your Safeframe Containers

Publishers and advertisers alike should look at SafeFrame as a necessary baseline security measure for any online publisher monetizing their site channels and looking to protect their ad content, but they are far from a final solution.

In this blog, we break down what SafeFrame is, how Malvertisers get around it, how to track down and block said Malvertisers, and much more valuable information.

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What’s New in August

Here is an interesting blog post about Website Ad Revenue you might want to check out:

Optimizing Your Website Ad Revenue

Looking to get the most out of your webpage, content, and site traffic?

You have to be actively involved in both content publishing and ad management processes to grind out kinks and squeeze out as much revenue as you can.

In this blog, we break down important pieces to boosting your revenue by covering topics such as: How to maintain site performance, Importance of user experience, Rates vs demand, Need to know of Ad Sizes, and many more.

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What’s New in July

Have you check out the clean blogs lately?

Below are some interesting articles that you may want to check out:

How To Make Malvertisers Pay

Whether they are probing your site, hijacking user experiences, or launching full-scale attacks, cybercriminals are always looking for a lucrative payday through malvertising.

The real costs of malvertising and ad fraud include various elements, some of which are difficult to track but nonetheless real, while others will directly impact your business. In terms of those softer costs, site experience and customer satisfaction will deteriorate as users are attacked by bad ads and consequently driven away from repeat sessions. This will then lead to lost ad revenue as your site traffic decreases, and having to spend valuable work hours tracking down and removing bad ads.

Learn more about making Malvertisers pay by reading this in-depth article here

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What Is Ad Cloaking?

Best Websites For The Ad Ops Community

Improving Your Advertising Profit Margins as a Publisher

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What's New In June

Clean.IO - Protecting Publishers and Platforms from Malicious Ads

Our CEO and Co-founder Geoff Stupay was featured on the Marketecture Media Podcast with Ari Paparo, where he discussed how Clean.io helps publishers, ad platforms and ecommerce providers detect malvertising and other unwanted code on their pages, and how our security screening tech is used by SSPs, DSPs and site owners to detect and block malicious ads before they reach end users. Geoff also highlights our work in the ecommerce arena.

Want to learn more? You can listen to the full podcast episode here

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Malicious Ads: 5 Types of Attacks to Know About Today

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What's New In May

cleanAD’s Threat Mitigation Language: What It Is, What It Isn’t, and How It's Changing the Game

Constantly updating attacks and tactics has long highlighted the need for a proactive security system to protect sites from malvertising attacks.

cleanAD’s Threat Mitigation Language (TML) is a powerful yet efficient proprietary language to define behaviors and apply custom, context-aware logic for telemetry gathering and executing of advanced threat neutralization techniques. TML facilitates quick categorization of potentially harmful threats, including key indicators, behavioral traits, and other identifying metadata, for pairing with appropriate mitigation strategies.

Want to learn more? Check out this in-depth article which goes into the ins and outs of cleanAD's Threat Mitigation Language, and how it is changing the ad security ecosystem, here

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Ad Ops All Stars: Ari Paparo, Entrepreneur and Co-Founder, Beeswax

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What's New In April

Everything you ever needed to know about Ad Operations 

Love a good podcast? Need something to listen to while walking the dog? Want to learn more about what it's like to work in the ad operations field? You've come to the right place! Check out the Ad Ops All Stars podcast with new episodes weekly that take you behind the scenes with top Ad Ops leaders to understand the ins and outs of their roles and what brought them success in their careers.

Head to our resource hub to check out all of our podcast episodes, or download directly from apple podcasts. 

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What's New In March

What's the deal with all these MLPs? 

Throughout the majority of Q1 2022, our network has seen an influx of malicious landing page (MLP) attacks. One prevalent attack is a malicious energy scam which comes from misleading ads surrounding an energy saving system that has been deemed by authorities as "scientifically impossible." Click here to get the full scoop and to see how clean is protecting its partners from this malicious activity. 

Questions? Feedback? We'd love to hear from you! cs@clean.io