Northland Group Joins Tech Lock Certified Program

Chicago – Tech Lock, Inc. announces the joining of Northland Group Inc. to its Tech Lock Certified™ program. Tech Lock Certified™ is a holistic compliance assessment, combining multiple regulatory and industry standard control objectives into a single audit to provide the agency cost savings and provide their clients with a true data security compliance validation. Tech Lock Certified™ provides clients with a true look at an organizations data security and compliance controls, unlike a SAS 70 type II audit which does not specify a pre-determined set of control objectives.

The constant client audit and creditor data security requirements asking companies like Northland to show proof of compliance with standards or laws such as PCI DSS, HIPAA/HITECH, GLBA, ISO 27002, Massachusetts 201 CMR 17.00: Standards for the Protection of Personal Information of Residents of the Commonwealth, and Nevada’s Personal Information Law NRS 603a are increasing at a frequent pace. These compliance requirements can be time consuming and resource intensive to achieve and require external 3rd party validation to complete.

“Northland wants to be on the front end of client standards, and in today’s environment, there is nothing more important than security and compliance,” says Lance Black, Northland’s President. “We strategically entered the Tech Lock Certified™ program to complete a holistic audit that met all our current and future clients’ needs to help alleviate the internal resource time answering client questionnaires and audits.   In addition this certification helps reduce our 3rd party assessment costs each year because we can now get through our compliance goals and objectives in one audit vs multiple audits staged throughout the year.”

“The Tech Lock Certified™ program provides ARM companies a value that extends beyond cost savings,” says Todd Langusch, Tech Lock’s Chief Executive Officer. “Tech Lock auditors and staff have worked for ARM organizations and understand how operations drives the business and continually look to help companies of all sizes to achieve their compliance goals.  Outside of meeting client requirements, the achievement of Tech Lock Certified™ provides organizations a competitive advantage when biding for new business as well as getting ahead of the curve as SAS70 is going away as of June 15, 2011.”

ABOUT NORTHLAND GROUP
Founded in 1982, Northland Group is a professional debt collection agency that provides business process outsourcing solutions to bank card, retail, student loan and other markets nationwide. The agency recently received its SAS-70 Type II Controls certification, and has also received an ISO 27001 certification in the fall of 2010, along with PPMS Certification through the ACA.

ABOUT TECH LOCK, INC.
Tech Lock, Inc. is focused on serving the ARM industry, including credit grantors, collection agencies, debt buyers, service organizations, healthcare providers and more. Tech Lock’s IT professionals all possess Fortune 100 and ARM industry experience. This makes Tech Lock uniquely skilled in serving the ARM industry as it relates to information technology, data security, and regulatory compliance. Tech Lock is a service disabled veteran owned small business. For more information, please visit www.techlockinc.com.