Biographical Information
Jackie Wadhwa
Head of Product Strategy, Digital Element
Jackie Wadhwa leads product strategy for Digital Element's cybersecurity and fraud prevention portfolio, where she works with streaming platforms, rights holders, and security teams on how IP intelligence is applied to geo-rights enforcement, VPN and proxy classification, and fraud detection. Her focus is the operational side of that work: how detection signals translate into policy, and how enforcement decisions affect the customer on the other end of them.
Company Overview
Digital Element, a Digital Envoy company, has provided IP address intelligence and geolocation data since 1999. Its NetAcuity, Nodify, IPC, and IP Forensics products supply location, connection, and anonymizer intelligence to streaming providers, global brands, security firms, ad platforms, and mobile publishers, covering IP-level attributes including proxy type, mobile carrier, ISP, and connection characteristics.
Articles for Jackie Wadhwa
How Streaming Platforms Can Detect VPN and Proxy Abuse Without Overblocking Legitimate Users
24 Sep 2026
VPN and proxy abuse genuinely undermines geo-licensed content. Blunt blocking rules genuinely cost paying subscribers, including people who run a VPN for privacy, who are tunneled into a corporate network, or who are simply on a mobile carrier that routes their traffic through an egress point three states away. The way out is not to pick a side. It is to stop treating "VPN and proxy traffic" as one thing.