Damballa Welcomes Gunter Ollmann, Well-known Security Expert, as Vice President of...

Damballa Welcomes Gunter Ollmann, Well-known Security Expert, as Vice
President of Research

Ollmann Brings Over Two Decades of Information Technology and Threat Research
Experience to the Damballa Team

ATLANTA, March 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Damballa, Inc. (www.damballa.com), the only
Internet security company focused exclusively on bot-driven targeted threats,
announced today that Gunter Ollmann has joined the company as Vice President
of Research.

"We are beyond delighted to welcome Gunter onboard. He brings years of deep
knowledge and experience in enterprise security threat research and is a
well-respected and well-known expert in the industry," said Steve Linowes, CEO
of Damballa, Inc. "As a pioneer in bot-driven targeted threat research and
solutions, the Damballa team is looking forward to having Gunter continue the
momentum in our understanding of how these threats affect the enterprise and
assisting us in bringing that knowledge to our customers."

Gunter Ollmann has over 20 years of experience within the information
technology industry and is a known veteran in the security space. Prior to
joining Damballa, Ollmann held several strategic positions at IBM Internet
Security Systems (IBM ISS) with the most recent being the Chief Security
Strategist. In this role he was responsible for predicting the evolution of
future threats and helping guide IBM's overall security research and
protection strategy, as well as being the key IBM spokesperson on evolving
threats and mitigation techniques. He also held the role of Director of
X-Force as well as the former head of X-Force security assessment services for
EMEA while at ISS (which was acquired by IBM in 2006). Prior to joining ISS,
Ollmann was the professional services director of Next Generation Security
Software (NGS), a vulnerability research and attack-based consulting firm.

Ollmann has been a contributor to multiple leading international IT and
security focused magazines and journals, and has authored, developed and
delivered a number of highly technical courses on Web application security. He
is a well-known industry speaker worldwide and is often invited to present at
various international security conferences. Ollmann is also highly regarded in
the press as an expert source on security threats and is a frequently quoted
by the international media.

For more information on Damballa solutions, please visit www.damballa.com or
call 404-961-7400. And for an assessment of how many of your enterprise
systems may be compromised by bot-driven targeted attacks, please visit the
Damballa Risk Calculator at http://www.damballa.com/overview/risk.php.

For an ongoing conversation about targeted threats, please visit the Damballa
blog, The Day Before Zero, at http://blog.damballa.com/.

About Damballa, Inc.
Damballa protects businesses from bot-driven targeted attacks used for
organized, online crime by using the Internet cloud to identify and isolate
threats that evade other technologies. Our unique, global approach monitors
the Command-and-Control that coordinates botnet attacks to rapidly identify
compromised systems and enable immediate control of malicious activity. Global
1000 corporations, large Internet service providers, OEM partners and
government agencies use Damballa's signatureless solutions and
industry-leading research to reinforce existing security infrastructure and
stop hidden Internet attacks. The result is dramatically improved security
both inside and outside the network perimeter. Damballa is privately held and
headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Ashley Vandiver, Damballa, Inc., Office: +1-404-961-7404, Mobile:
+1-404-432-8657, ashleyv@damballa.com