Austin Business Journal recognizes CSID with the Gold Award for Tech Innovation in Central Texas. 

AUSTIN, TX – Dec. 09, 2011 – CSID™, the leading provider of global, enterprise-level identity protection and fraud detection technologies and solutions, today announced the company’s proprietary Global ID Protector technology has been named winner of the Austin Business Journal’s 2011 Tech Innovation Awards. Global ID Protector was given the Gold Award, the program’s top honor.   

The Tech Innovation Awards recognize top tech pioneers in Central Texas, ranging from startups to corporations, for innovative technologies under development or on the market for less than a year. A panel of designated professionals narrowed the nominees to 20 finalists. Finalists presented their innovations to a second panel of judges, selected by the Austin chapter of the Rice Alliance, who ranked each innovation on multiple factors including ability to impact its industry.

Global ID Protector allows businesses to rapidly deploy an identity protection product to a worldwide customer base. Offering an online portal through which customers can access identity alerts that can be localized by country and language, Global ID Protector is the only globally scalable comprehensive identity protection solution on the market today. At the foundation of the solution is CSID’s CyberAgent® technology that monitors criminal web pages, chat rooms and other online forums for compromised pieces of personal information, transcending the complexities of each country’s individual credit system.

Launched in August 2011, the product is already used by Fortune 500 international companies, has been deployed in more than 47 countries and has been translated into 15 languages. AVG Technologies recently implemented Global ID Protector to power AVG Identity Alert, a new feature of AVG Premium Security.

“Identity theft and data breaches are becoming more prevalent and costly on a global level, and Global ID Protector is the first solution to address this issue,” said Joe Ross, president of CSID. “We are honored that our technology is being recognized by the Austin Business Journal, and we congratulate the other winners and finalists.”

Before CSID’s Global ID Protector, “there was not an international solution that could tie all the global customer data together and provide quick an easy online portal, adjustable by language preference,” the Austin Business Journal reports. “An identity protection product offered by one company and scaled across multiple countries has not been available until now.”

For more information on CSID and Global ID Protector, visit www.CSID.com.

About the Austin Business Journal

Established in 1981 and geared toward business owners, managers and entrepreneurs in the five-county Austin, Texas region, the Austin Business Journal features both breaking business news and topically focused feature articles and covers the latest news on finance, real estate, health care, legal and technology issues and includes a calendar of events, all with a regional focus. Visit http://www.bizjournals.com/austin for more information.

About CSID

CSID is the leading provider of global, enterprise-level identity protection and fraud detection technologies and solutions to the world’s top companies and government organizations. With CSID’s advanced enterprise-level solutions, businesses can take a proactive approach to protecting the identities of their consumers all around the world. Products go beyond credit monitoring and include full-service identity theft protection; insurance and restoration; identity authentication and voice biometrics; and proactive breach preparation from discovery to resolution. 

For more information, contact:

Helen Rodriguez
INK Public Relations for CSID
512.382.8988
csid@ink-pr.com