Coast Professional, Inc. joins Tech Lock Certified Program

 Chicago – Tech Lock, announces the joining of Coast Professional, Inc. (Coast) to its Tech Lock Certified™ program.  The purpose of the Tech Lock Certified™ program is to provide organizations with a holistic or unified compliance audit, combining multiple regulatory and industry standard requirements into a single audit that yields the maximum return on investment.

“For us, entering the Tech Lock Certified™ program made a lot of sense.  We needed to maintain our compliance with NIST 800-53 for the Department of Education (ED) for our FISMA compliance as well as comply with the PCI DSS standard,” says Brian Davis, Coast’s Chief Executive Officer.  “Our goal was to partner with a security company with expertise in the ARM Industry, like Tech Lock, to ensure we were meeting or exceeding the requirements and interpreting the 200 plus controls of the PCI DSS standard correctly.  As with most companies in a bad economy, expenses are carefully scrutinized. Tech Lock Certified™ offered Coast the greatest value in a data security investment.”

With their ED contract as well as contingency collections, Coast is consistently asked to maintain compliance with standards such as FISMA, GLBA, PCI DSS, ISO 27002 and state laws such as Massachusetts 201 CMR 17.00: Standards for the Protection of Personal Information of Residents of the Commonwealth, Nevada Personal Information Law NRS 603a and Senate Bill No.227, and the Minnesota Plastic Card Security Act.

“It is becoming increasingly difficult for small businesses in the ARM industry to keep up with the compliance requirements of their contracts,” says Todd Langusch, Tech Lock’s Chief Executive Officer. “Utilizing the Tech Lock Certified™ program allows Coast to focus on their operational goals and reduces the requirement to continually respond to multiple requests from clients to prove compliance with different regulatory or industry standard requirements.”

About Coast Professional, Inc.
Coast Professional, Inc. (Coast) is a certified Small Business with a successful 34 year history of nationwide student loan experience and is 100% focused in the student loan industry. Coast’s mission is to preserve the integrity of educational institutions before, during, and after the collection process. Coast helps increase the profitability of their clients by assisting borrowers in the resolution of obligations while enhancing borrowers’ future educational and financial opportunities.

Coast is proud to announce being named one (1) of five (5) agencies to be awarded a Small Business contract with the Department of Education (ED), whereby the firm is provided with a restricted list of individuals from whom it may attempt to negotiate account resolution. Coast is currently ranked in 1st place for the first quarter of the 2009 ED contract.

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.