Security Through Obscurity

DataShroud® is a unique, customized service created to help mitigate the risks of an online presence. We remove, shield, or redirect our clients’ information to provide the optimum in personal data protection.

Our comprehensive privacy services offer solutions for at-risk individuals seeking to protect themselves from:

  • Home Invasion & Burglary

  • Stalking or Harassment

  • Kidnapping

  • Doxxing

  • Extortion & Reputational Damage

  • Account Takeovers/Hacking

  • Telephone/Email Scams

  • Corporate Espionage

  • Unwanted Marketing

  • Elder/Vulnerable Persons Abuse

Our investigative strategy analyzes privacy from personal, financial, and business perspectives. All areas of our clients’ lives are considered when opting to protect information from possible threat actors. Consultations for specified concerns and additional recommendations are provided and addressed for every service.

The Process

BASELINE PHASE I

An Intelligence Analyst manually removes personal information from hundreds of online data aggregators, eliminating the risk a Basic Threat Actor will find a client’s home, vehicle, phone, email or family relations via search engines and data aggregators.

BASELINE PHASE II

A holistic risk profile is created, ranking exposure at the residential, financial, communication, social media, family, travel and lifestyle levels. This risk profile is furnished to the client along with a verbal debriefing of efforts. The client may remediate some of the vulnerabilities themselves with our guidance, or elect to have them professionally purged in the Advanced Phase.

ADVANCED PHASE

Manual removal or obfuscation of the more advanced PII identified in Baseline Phase II. The primary goal continues to be the protection of residences and other real life items. Keen attention is also paid to travel, including hotels, rental cars, and airlines. These are popular targets of Advanced Threat Actors, particularly related to C-Suite executives and high net worth individuals.

MONITORING

In addition to traditional dark web monitoring, DataShroud® monitoring ensures a consistent blackout of PII across all areas, with notifications of vulnerabilities as they are detected. Remediation efforts commence immediately. This is part software-driven, and part the active efforts of Intelligence Analysts who regularly check-up on a client’s PII exposure and launch their own investigations to determine where other vulnerabilities may lie.

AREAS OF PRIMARY CONCENTRATION

DataShroud® has successfully removed thousands of instances of personal identifying information including:

  • Street-level map images of residences

  • 2nd party website removal requests

  • Online classifieds

  • Real estate listings

  • Online dating profiles

  • Hotel records

  • Rental car records

  • Airline records

  • Facial recognition programs

  • Family social media and PII

  • Removal of unique vulnerabilities uncovered by Intelligence Analysts

  • Residential addresses

  • Phone numbers

  • Email addresses

  • Vehicle sightings and Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR) records

  • Hacked usernames and passwords

  • Data stored on major national background check services

  • Secondary & tertiary background check sites

  • Personally Identifiable Information (PII) located on 3rd party websites

  • Unclaimed asset data