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Data Protection Group LLC
(DPG) was formed to help protect private citizens and
companies holding sensitive information through improved
security and compliance procedures and strategic public
policy initiatives. Used properly,
sensitive personally identifiable information helps
America stay safe; criminals have alternative
uses.
The information
service-provider market is changing due to a large
string of breaches in personal identifiable information
about which consumers, the media and policy makers are
justifiably concerned.
DPG provides a
three-pronged approach to protect information providers
and help consumers afford a level of safety:
- Agitation:
Security and compliance is an ever evolving field;
most major improvements are the result of an
“unfriendly” agitation—a breach. DPG will be a
“friendly agitator” attempting to breach its clients
and report back on progress. DPG’s team
will try to gain access to client products and
services using the same techniques as those with less
than honorable intent. Additionally,
DPG’s clients share breach attempts in a pooled
knowledge base, making for an advanced tool to aid
clients with sensitive information. DPG’s clients
are the best prepared companies in the industry and
the world.
- Database:
All clients share a list of known companies and
individuals who have attempted fraudulently
access.
The result, more secure customers and better
protected consumers. Had this list
been in existence one year ago, many well publicized
breaches could have been
avoided.
Testing: The
information industry is extremely complex when it comes
to data licensing.
Data sets are bought and sold at many different
levels with diverse licensing rules. Myriad small
companies provide access to sensitive data without
strict compliance procedures, if they have a compliance
department at all. Some of
these companies may be either licensing bulk data from
primary data resellers or using gateways. Through Testing,
client companies become watchdogs of their own
customers—which are a lesser-known but still viable
threat to consumer data.
Data Protection Group
helps consumers, its clients and attendant industries by
applying years of industry knowledge and
customer-supplied negative data to provide robust,
ever-changing, solutions aiding security and compliance
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