Global cyber security specialists, NCC Group, and global insights and information company, TransUnion, have announced a partnership that will help protect consumers around the world from online threats and malicous cyber attacks. TruEmpower ScamBlocker is the latest addition to TransUnion’s TruEmpower portfolio available to insurers to protect their policyholders.
The proactive technology solution focuses on prevention harm at source, blocking malicious URLs at source and thus avoiding consumers falling foul of suspicious email links, or fake websites. It combines NCC Group’s world-class technical expertise and TransUnion’s insights and ecosystem. Building on NCC Group’s decades of experience in preventing, mitigating, and managing adversarial attacks on global enterprises, ScamBlocker is designed with individual consumers in mind, to help protect them against a broad range of cyber threats including online scams, fraud, and phishing attacks.
Delivered globally to insurers via Cyberscout, a TransUnion brand, TruEmpower Scam Blocker aims to remove barriers to individual cyber security protection, and makes affordable and accessible enterprise-grade security solutions available to millions of consumers.
Kevin Brown, Chief Operating Officer, NCC Group comments: “Technology solutions that offer cyber protection against the most notorious online fraud methods do exist but have long been unaffordable and inaccessible for individuals - NCC Group, working with TransUnion, and TransUnion’s insurance partners, is changing that.”
“This is an example of meaningful collaboration with real impact across the industry ecosystem, and a solution that has huge potential to prevent harm at scale in the future.”
“In addition to offering much needed cyber insurance coverage and crisis management support after policyholders experience a cyber event, insurers now have a preventative offering in their cyber tool kit,” Mark McElroy, executive vice president and head of TransUnion’s insurance business adds. “Scam Blocker not only helps protect people from the consequences of bad digital decisions, it also educates along the way to make policyholders safer in their future online engagement.”
About NCC Group
NCC Group is a people-powered, tech-enabled global Cyber Security specialist that helps to create a more secure digital future.
As global experts in cyber security and risk mitigation, NCC Group is trusted by over 14,000 customers to protect their most critical assets from the ever-changing threat landscape.
With the company's knowledge, experience, and investment in research and innovation, it is best placed to help organisations assess, develop, and manage their cyber resilience posture.
With circa 2,000 colleagues in 12 countries, NCC Group has a significant market presence in North America, Europe and the UK, and a rapidly growing footprint in Asia Pacific with offices in Australia, Japan and Singapore.
About TransUnion (NYSE: TRU)
TransUnion is a global information and insights company with over 12,000 associates operating in more than 30 countries. We make trust possible by ensuring each person is reliably represented in the marketplace. We do this with a Tru™ picture of each person: an actionable view of consumers, stewarded with care. Through our acquisitions and technology investments we have developed innovative solutions that extend beyond our strong foundation in core credit into areas such as marketing, fraud, risk and advanced analytics. As a result, consumers and businesses can transact with confidence and achieve great things. We call this Information for Good® — and it leads to economic opportunity, great experiences and personal empowerment for millions of people around the world. http://www.transunion.com/business