PRZOOM - /newswire/ - Beaverton, OR, United States, 2009/02/17 - IDTELi of Beaverton, OR has reached an agreement with Piedmont Credit Union of Danville, VA to provide GUARDED ID® keylogging protection for Piedmont's internal computers and Piedmont has agreed to offer GUARDED ID® to their members.

IDTELi, a leading provider of identity theft prevention training and security products, is pleased to announce that Piedmont Credit Union of Danville, VA has taken defensive measures to enhance its internal data security program with GUARDED ID® and will also offer the same level of protection to its Members. GUARDED ID® is patent pending next generation “keystroke encryption” software. It prevents known and undetectable keyloggers from capturing all keystrokes and sending them to thieves via the Internet. Piedmont Credit Union is one of the first credit unions in the nation to offer Members the same keyboard security being used internally to prevent keylogging. Some of the members of Piedmont Credit Union were affected by the Heartland Payment Systems data breach that was initiated by keylogging malware and while Piedmont’s management has since determined that the Heartland data breach was not related to any of Piedmont’s internal systems, proactive steps have been taken to prevent a similar event from occurring at its credit union.

IDTELi’s GUARDED ID® for Credit Unions program has been deployed in-order to prevent data leakage akin to the Heartland breach. Piedmont’s management determined that adding GUARDED ID® to their internal computers is a logical step in maintaining a comprehensive and layered approach to data security. IDTELi’s Brenda Eaden stated that “every financial institution needs to re-examine their data security in light of the Heartland breach. Most, if not all, financial institutions utilize important state-of-the-art firewalls, ‘best-of-breed’ anti-virus and anti-spyware, filters and web gateway security but they also need to ensure data is secure at its most vulnerable point of exposure to theft, the computer keyboard”.

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IDTELi LLC (guardedid4creditunions.com) is an authorized distributor of the GUARDED ID® keystroke encryption software to the financial services industries and a leading provider of workforce Identity Theft Awareness & Prevention Training located in Beaverton, Oregon.

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