Intersections Inc. Launches BreachCenter.com
Partners with ITAC to Offer New Online Community Portal For Breach Readiness & Response
Data breaches and identity theft are the two most rapidly growing crimes in the U.S. In 2008 alone, Verizon Business investigated breaches involving more than 285 million compromised records, according to the 2009 Verizon Business Data Breach Investigations Report.
“It’s not a question of whether your company will be breached; it’s really a question of when. Despite the significant time and money devoted to breach prevention and industry standards developed by the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council and the Federal Financial Institutions Examinations Council, breaches still happen. And when they do, people need a place to turn to for help,” said
In addition to providing resources like articles, white papers and case studies, BreachCenter.com has been designed to promote open discussion, opinions, news and reviews of data breach recovery services and is meant to be a “free community of interest” site, comprised almost entirely of participant collaboration and input. The site’s Wiki pages, forums and blogs encourage the community of breach response professionals and victims to collaborate to define the issues, suggest the consensus view and point corporations toward the path to effective breach response.
Among the resources on the website is the “Seven Steps to Data Breach Readiness,” a guide prepared by Intersections that provides companies with information on how to lay the groundwork for effective data breach recovery; and a database of consumer notification laws, organized by state and updated quarterly. In addition, information on recent data breaches will be posted on www.BreachCenter.com from The Open Security Foundation’s (OSF) DataLoss Database, a free and open resource for the collection and dissemination of data loss incident-related information. The OSF is a non-profit public organization that provides knowledge and resources so that other organizations may properly detect, protect, and mitigate information security risks. BreachCenter.com also features news and opinions from the ITAC blog, a leading source of commentary from business and government officials on identity theft and identity management issues.
Intersections Business Services division, the support behind BreachCenter.com, works with hundreds of businesses worldwide to provide the most comprehensive and proactive identity management solutions available. Intersections has over 13 years of experience providing leading edge identity theft protection services to over 20 million consumers, and has managed hundreds of reactive and breach readiness programs for businesses.
Intersections is the sole service provider to ITAC, providing all of the operations behind ITAC’s Victim Assistance service. ITAC’s Victim Assistance is the only service of its kind that is directly linked to the fraud prevention departments of dozens of the nation’s largest financial institutions. In addition, the ITAC team of representatives works closely with customers to document and assess the impact of identity theft while working with law enforcement agencies to capture and convict identity theft criminals.
ITAC and Intersections have partnered to create the ITAC Sentinel(R) line of identity theft protection products to combine Intersections’ market leading identity theft prevention and detection services with ITAC’s world-class Victim Assistance services. The ITAC Sentinel products are available as breach response products, as endorsed product offerings for marketers such as financial institutions, telecommunications companies and retailers, as employee benefit programs and via ITAC’s website, www.itacsentinel.com.
“We are thrilled to support and contribute to Intersections’ BreachCenter.com online portal,” said
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About Intersections (www.intersections.com)
Intersections Inc. (Nasdaq: INTX) is a leading global provider of consumer and corporate identity risk management services. Its premier identity theft, privacy, and consumer solutions are designed to provide high-value, revenue-generating opportunities to its marketing partners, including leading financial institutions, Fortune 100 corporations, and other businesses. Intersections also markets full identity theft protection solutions under its brand, IDENTITY GUARD(R) (www.identityguard.com). Intersections’ consumer identity theft protection services have protected more than 20 million consumers.
To address the growing threat of corporate fraud, Intersections and its subsidiaries provide cutting-edge identity risk management solutions including:
- Security breach remediation to enable companies to respond to security incidents and mitigate potential damage to their employees, customers, and corporate brands.
- Pre-employment background screening, provided domestically through American Background Information Services, Inc., and internationally through Control Risks Screening Limited (
London, United Kingdom ) and Control Risks Screening (S) Pte Ltd.
- Corporate brand protection services provided by Net Enforcers Inc.
- Software and data management, provided by Captira Analytical, LLC, to assist the bail bond industry in managing workflow and data requirements.
About ITAC (www.identitytheftassistance.org)
ITAC, the Identity Theft Assistance Center, is a nonprofit coalition of financial services companies united in our commitment to protect our customers from identity theft. ITAC’s victim assistance service — which has helped more than 50,000 consumers recover from identity theft — is available at no cost to the millions of consumers who have an account at an ITAC member company. A leading provider of identity protection services through its ITAC Sentinel(R) brand (www.itacsentinel.com), ITAC protects all consumers through partnerships with law enforcement, education and identity management services.
SOURCE Intersections Inc.