Executive Identity Protection

Digital executive protection for business leaders.

What it is

Verizon’s Executive Identity Protection is a digital executive protection solution that can help reduce online exposure.

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Executive information will be identified, itemized and documented.

To help ensure the highest level of privacy, requests to remove personal information—such as property details, phone numbers and addresses—will be issued to data brokers, realtor sites, non-data brokers and other entities on the deep web.

An assigned Removal Specialist from the Verizon Threat Research Advisory Center (VTRAC) team provides each customer with white-glove service. These highly trained specialists help request the removal of sensitive personal digital data and provide progress updates.

Our VTRAC specialists can perform ongoing cybersecurity monitoring for new and reappearing executive personal data and can provide your business with updates.

Help protect loved ones by extending cybersecurity services to an executive's spouse and/or adult children.

Benefits

Visibility into online exposure

Verizon’s vulnerability assessment helps identify executives’ personal information published on the surface and deep web and the magnitude of potential risk.

Help minimize digital footprint

For top executives, a reduced digital footprint can bolster cyber threat protection and social engineering prevention.

Help enhance company security

Strong security at the C-level can help improve overall brand protection and help reduce the risk of cyberattacks.

Opportunity for less targeting information

Removal of executives’ personal information from data brokers can help thwart threat actors.

Features

Vulnerability assessment

Helps identify and document key personnel information found on the surface and deep web. The results from the assessment are used to initiate removal requests to the data brokers.

Data removal requests

Removal Specialists research exposed information and request data removal from the data brokers.

Monitoring

Continuous monitoring in case the data broker companies resell, replace or update the data in their systems.

Reporting

Regular updates and progress reports are provided if applicable.

Key resources

Protecting Your Leaders and Organization with Executive Identity Protection

Organizations of all sizes face the challenge of protecting their executives from targeted cyber threats. Verizon’s Executive Identity Protection helps by finding and removing your key leaders personal information from the surface and deep web, where it is often sold by data brokers. Digital executive protection helps safeguard your executives and your company from both online and real- world attacks.

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Frost and Sullivan

This whitepaper by Frost & Sullivan, commissioned by Verizon, explores the evolving threat landscape for high-profile targets and senior executives. It details how increased online exposure fuels targeted digital and physical threats, emphasizing the critical need for executive identity protection to reduce attack surfaces and safeguard organizational integrity.

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Executive Identity Protection fact sheet

Get a quick overview of our robust approach to mitigating online risks for your executives and organization.

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Why Verizon

The Verizon Threat 
Research Advisory Center has proactively identified 
and neutralized cyber 
threats for over 20 years.

20T+

signals analyzed annually for malicious security activity

3.5M

security alerts annually

75K

escalated incidents annually

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FAQs

Executive Identity Protection helps safeguard high-profile individuals by monitoring and requesting removal of their personal information online, helping to prevent cyber threats 
and reputational damage.

Removing personal data from the web can reduce the risk of identity theft, financial fraud and targeted cyberattacks against executives and their families.

Executives can face cyber risks such as identity theft, phishing attacks, doxxing, financial fraud and reputational harm from exposed personal data.

With Verizon's full Executive Identity Protection level of service, a Removal Specialist can request removal of an executive's personal information from the web, and organizations can receive ongoing cybersecurity monitoring for their executives.

By proactively monitoring and requesting removal of executives’ personal data online, C-suite cybersecurity services can help maintain reputation integrity and prevent digital attacks.

Presence management involves controlling online visibility, so that personal and professional data can be monitored, minimized or removed to help reduce cyber risks.

Executives are prime targets for cybercriminals who exploit personal data for fraud, identity theft and reputational damage. Executive Identity Protection can help reduce these risks.

Data brokers are online businesses that harvest public records and personal information available to be obtained online. They sell this information to other third-parties: businesses, individuals, other websites, etc.  Personal data is seen as “the product,” and the buyer can be anyone online.  Exposure of personal information can be problematic for executives and their organizations.

Verizon identifies personal information for key personnel on the surface and deep web, requests removal of this information and continuously monitors to find reappearances or updates by data brokers.  Reappearances are quickly addressed with new removal requests.

Reducing the executive’s online footprint can help provide a smaller target for reconnaissance, physical threats and online targeting through surface and deep web sources. It can also help to reduce the risk to your organization.

Tailored personal attacks, advanced reconnaissance, spearphishing, whaling, identity fraud, swatting, doxing and online harassment that can lead to physical threats.

We assign a Removal Specialist to the customer that searches the surface and deep web to help identify, detect and request removal of customer executives’ personal information from data brokers, as well as some non-data brokers and realtor websites.