Neustar has moved to combine its identity and data management offering with an Aerospike-developed in-memory NoSQL database. Marketers have an integrated online and offline view into real-time customer and media insights through Neustar’s PlatformOne tool in order to develop services on demand, Aerospike said Tuesday. Neustar intends for the Aerospike database to manage large volumes […] More

John Devolites, formerly general manager of TEOCO Corp., has joined Neustar Inc. as vice president of data services. Devolites will report to Steve Edwards, senior vice president of data services, and be responsible for Neustar’s order management services, information services and analytics strategy, the company said Tuesday. “John has a proven track record of applying […] More

A new report from Neustar indicates that financial services firms have doubled their protection measures against distributed-denial-of-service-attacks compared to other industries. Thirty-two percent of financial services companies are implementing services to minimize the impact of DDoS attacks, Neustar said Monday. Jennifer Gilmore, manager of strategic offer marketing within Neustar’s financial services business, writes that site disruptions […] More

Nearly 90 percent of 450 North American businesses surveyed by Neustar experienced repeat distributed denial of service attacks in 2013. Data from Neustar’s “DDoS Attacks and Impacts Report” indicates that DDoS threats cost enterprises millions of dollars in downtime, brand damage and customer support, Neustar said Tuesday. Neustar found that more DDoS perpetrators use a”smokescreening” […] More

Neustar and the Girl Scouts of Kentuckiana have partnered to promote science, technology, engineering and mathematics education for young girls in Kentucky and Indiana.  The company’s will use EverFi’s My Digital Life digital learning platforms to work with more than 4,000 Girl Scouts in Kentucky and Southern Indiana, Neustar announced Wednesday. Cadette girl scouts of ages […] More

Neustar has been providing dotStrategy with security tools and services intended to keep malware, botnets and phishing scams from entering a dotStrategy-operated top level domain. TLD operator dotStrategy uses Neustar’s registry threat detection and mitigation platform to secure .BUZZ namespace customers and users, Neustar said Thursday. Jeffrey Neuman, Neustar vice president of registry services, said […] More

Neustar Inc. has agreed to buy .CO Internet S.A.S., which maintains the registry for Internet addresses with the “.co” domain, Neustar said Thursday. Lisa Hook, president and CEO of Neustar, said the company intends to integrate .CO Internet’s domain marketing technologies into Neustar’s distribution network and technical resources in order to grow its registry services. .CO Internet […] More

Four female members of Unisys' board of directors have been included in WomenInc.'s list of influential corporate directors for 2019. The publication will feature Deborah Lee James, Denise Fletcher, Lisa Hook and Regina Paolillo in both the online and print editions of its annual award program.

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The Northern Virginia Technology Council has unveiled the names of the finalists for the 2015 NVTC Tech Awards in honor of Northern Virginia’s technology community. NVTC said Thursday this year’s Tech Executive of the Year finalists are Neustar’s Lisa Hook, Northrop Grumman’s Neil Siegel, HP’s Marilyn Crouther, Vencore’s Barry Barlow and Virtustream’s Rodney Rogers. NVTC will […] More

Mark Meleski serves as channel strategy and marketing lead at Level 3 Communications. He has nearly two decades of business development, corporate, strategy and marketing experience in the data analytics, Internet and telecommunications sectors. Before Level 3 Communications, Meleski served as vice president of strategy and business development at Centurion Research Solutions, where he led […] More

Dave Helmreich, formerly senior vice president for the media and advertising business of Neustar, has joined digital media technology provider Audience Partners as CEO. He holds experience in leading technology-enabled organizations and helping enterprise clients implement data-based advertising platforms, Audience Partners said Wednesday. Audience Partners chairman Jeff Dittus said Helmreich will leverage his leadership skills to help […] More