Damballa Labs is a team of recognized authorities in cyber threats, malware analysis, and applied scientific research that collaborate with some of the best minds in the academic community to discover new and innovative ways to stay ahead of cyber crime activity. Specifically, Damballa Labs retains some of the most knowledgeable experts on DNS, machine learning technologies and criminal command-and-control infrastructure.
Damballa Labs is led by Gunter Ollmann, previously the Chief Security Strategist for IBM ISS and Director of the ISS X-Force Research and Development. Damballa Labs includes respected industry veterans from Trend Micro, F-Secure, Secure Computing, McAfee and the U.S. intelligence community.
Damballa Labs also maintains close ties to the leading academic professors and researchers in the areas of cyber crime infrastructure and DNS analytics. Damballa was founded out of Georgia Tech and several of the patents and scientific research initiatives have been coordinated with the Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC), where research in DNS-based monitoring for botnet defenses has been supported by funding from the National Science Foundation, the Department of Homeland Security, the Office of Naval Research, the Air Force Research Labs, the Army Research Office, and Google.
No one understands the threat better than Damballa, and no other company has better
technology or intelligence capable of detecting and terminating cyber attacks.