• by Ray Schultz , December 13, 2017

ZeroBounce, the provider of an email validation system, has formed an alliance with Internet security company Cloudflare to protect consumer data.

The firms say they can safeguard names, email addresses and other private information.

ZeroBounce notes that the Federal Trade Commission has called for urgent measures to protect consumer data in the wake of the Equifax breach, affecting 145 million Americans. It adds that the purpose of any IT security system is to protect sensitive data.

ZeroBounce specializes in e-mail bounce detection, email abuse and spam trap detection, e-mail data append and advanced security.

Cloudflare is an internet performance and security company. Its enterprise platform powers more than 10 trillion requests per month, it says.