Pangea Partners with Digital Element, a Global IP Geolocation and Intelligence Leader

As we continue to expand Pangea’s security intelligence services on our developer platform, we’re very excited to announce our new partnership with Digital Element!

Digital Element is a proven leader in the field of global IP geolocation and intelligence, and has been harnessing the power of IP intelligence insights for more than 20 years!

The Pangea and Digital Element partnership enables application builders to leverage Digital Element’s geolocation, proxy and VPN detection, and domain expertise with Pangea’s Security Platform as a Service (SPaaS) to embed security directly into their code.

What Is Pangea?

Pangea is the first Security Platform as a Service (SPaaS) delivering comprehensive security functions which app developers can leverage with a simple set of API calls. The platform offers foundational security services such as Authentication, Authorization, Audit Logging, Secrets Management, Entitlement and Licensing. Other security functions include PII Redaction, Embargo, as well as File, IP, URL and Domain intelligence.

Just as you would use AWS for computation, Twilio for communications, or Stripe for payments - Pangea provides security functions directly into your apps. Pangea unifies security for developers, delivering a single platform where API-first security services are streamlined and easy for any developer to deliver secure user experiences. For a more in depth view read our blog - Introducing Security Platform as a Service.

How Do Pangea and Digital Element Work Together?

Through our partnership with Digital Element, Pangea developers will have access to the combined strength of Pangea’s unified API functions along with Digital Elements robust security intelligence with total unique locations counts over ~4.1M, which include:

• geolocation which covers over ~252 countries around the world that equates to approximately 99.9999% globally, with audited accuracy rates of over 99.99% at the country level and 97% at the city level with over ~331K cities, postal code level with over ~3.9M…and, is the only solution on the market that offers ZIP+4 targeting!

• results from queries using the Digital Element IP Intel provide coverage for 99.9999% of all routable IP addresses in the world! Digital Element’s services delivered through Pangea APIs are also continually updated, and observe over 250 billion IP addresses per month.

• The ability to leverage and see which IP addresses are active the instant they become live with the confidence that the data remains highly accurate and comprehensive.

  • information gathered is totally anonymous, without tracking a user’s behavior and without cookies!

There are a wealth of potential use cases which enable developers to:

• Prevent Online Fraud by:

  • Validating user location and preventing “impossible travel” - the simultaneous access from geographically disparate locations

  • Restricting connections from IPs known to be malicious

  • Detect and reject connections originating from a VPN or proxy, including TOR traffic

• Localize Content and Enhance Analytics

• Target Mobile Users

• Improve Online Advertising

• Manage Digital Rights

Digital Element is now integrated into four Pangea services:

The new Pangea services include:

• Geolocate IP*: Pinpoint users’ geographic location from just their IP address, and uncover other actionable insights like demographic data and connection type. Accuracy rates of 99.99% at a country level, 98%+ at a regional level, and 97%+ at a city level – globally. Coverage of 99.9999% of all seen IP addresses worldwide that are still observable for devices with GPS turned off. Digital Element takes IP-based location targeting to the next level by combining traditional infrastructure analysis, insights gleaned from a network of global commercial partners, and location intelligence provided from mobile devices and billions of real-time data signals.

• Domain: Resolve an IP to its domain. The domain database is an accurate representation of domain names for IP addresses. With patented domain name expansion and injection algorithms Digital Element have been able to increase the number of IPs associated with domain names.

• Proxy: Detect connections through a proxy. Digital Element’s industry-leading proxy data is gathered via their unique proxy analyzer, which combs alleged proxy lists and stores the data for analysis. IP addresses are constantly evaluated and re-evaluated to see if they exhibit proxy-specific behavior, such as requiring login credentials.

• VPN: Detect connections through a VPN by leveraging a 400+ VPN Proxy database that provides additional insights around the proxy hosts as either VPN or DNS. The Proxy Identification database also highlights the individual IP address tied to the VPN or DNS proxy.

These services previously only available to large enterprise SOCs bring geolocation and intelligence to developers. More importantly, these services are offered through a pay-as-you-go pricing model, making them much more accessible to the developer community. These services can then be easily incorporated into applications to make advanced security decisions in real time.

Looking ahead for big things as Pangea continues to grow our partner provider API services

We’re excited about this partnership with Digital Element and their unparalleled services in geolocation and IP intelligence data. Pangea continues to empower developers to leverage our comprehensive and effective set of APIs in a wide variety of critical application scenarios

Rich Hlavka, VP Business Development and Partner Alliances

*Statistical sources provided by Digital Element