For Entertainment and Gaming Properties

Internet gaming sites and Multiplayer Online Role-playing Game (MORPG) are frequently attacked by non-human bots that are set on manipulating sites for personal and financial gain.


For Web Merchants

Nearly every transaction involving human beings on the Internet is at risk of being fraudulent. Mischievous criminial networks, parasitic marketers, hackers, scammers, and SPAMmers are deploying constantly evolving programs and tactics that are designed to steal identities, take over user accounts, and create new fraudulent accounts under fictitious identities.


For Financial Services Companies

Financial institutions and Web merchants have been battling fraud for years. However, now more than ever, they are linked in a vicious cycle of fraud and abuse from fraudsters that use malware, bots, and human interactions to access their account holders' and shoppers' account information.


For Communications and Messaging Properties

Users and administrators of social networking sites aren't strangers to ‘fraudsters.' Just as social networking sites become more popular by the minute - so does their appeal to the human fraudsters and non-human bots.


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Solutions for Communications and Messaging Properties

Users and administrators of social networking sites aren’t strangers to ‘fraudsters.’ Just as social networking sites become more popular by the minute – so does their appeal to the human fraudsters and non-human bots. Their millions of users are often times seen as an easy target for scams designed to hijack user accounts, email addresses, or extort money by tricking unsuspecting social network members into providing sensitive financial information.
 
The problems are nearly identical for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) that offer email, blogging, or instant messaging services to their subscribers. Eliminating webmail SPAM and instant messaging SPAM launched by fraudsters that penetrate their Web properties is a day-to-day battle and constantly evolving as scammers find new and creative ways to gain access.
 
Automated bots now account for a stunning 90% of all emails, over 86% of blog posts, at least 15% of online advertising clicks, as well as millions of fraudulent social network communications each and every day. Symantec observed an average of 61,940 active bot-infected computers per day in the second half of 2007 can we update this stat?, an increase of 17% from the previous period. The United States now has the most bot-infected computers in the world, accounting for 17% of the worldwide total — which is increasing over time.
 
 
The Pramana Solution:
 
Pramana has developed the patent pending, easy-to-deploy HumanPresent™ product which establishes a transparent security framework to enable social networking sites, Internet Service Providers (ISP), and messaging platforms to distinguish human communications from fraudulent bot or software-generated activity on a real-time basis.  Simply put, HumanPresent can provide bot prevention, bot protection and web fraud prevention when deployed as a hosted Software-as-a-Service or appliance on your network, Pramana’s HumanPresent™:
 

  • Prevents false account creation and SPAMming of users, members and account holders
  • Deploys rapidly and easily with invisibility to the end users for improved experiences
  • Allows user to log into the subscriber’s service from any machine regardless of the device
  • Validates and detects in real time based on user behavior
  • Offers flexible management of traffic based on back-end scoring
  • Continuously detects and prevents non-human, automated behavior anytime during the session to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks