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Our short history

My name is Martin Staal Boesgaard, I am the founder and CEO of PII Guard. I am an expert in cryptography and information security with more than 20 years of experience in this field.

Over the years, I have seen several times how difficult and time-consuming it can be to get access to production data in large organizations, whether the data is required for testing, statistics, AI training, or other purposes.

In 2016, this inspired me to investigate how production data can be protected such that data can be used for other purposes without exposing PII (Personally Identifiable Information) or other sensitive information. I have always had an interest in privacy and protection of personal information, which further increased my attention to this challenge.

Due to my cryptography background, it was obvious for me to investigate cryptographic solutions to this problem. Quickly, it became obvious that FPE (Format-Preserving Encryption) could solve many of these problems. I realized, however, that previous methods for FPE had a severe weakness when it comes to protection of PII. With this insight, I developed a new technology overcoming the problems. Next step was to team up with my three co-founders: Lars R. Knudsen (world-renown professor in cryptology), Lars Neupart (cyber security entrepreneur), and Steen Rask (IT sales executive) to take technology, products, and company to the next level.

PII Guard was formally registered as a company in 2018, and a year and a half later, we started signing license contracts with large, prominent customers. PII Guard is today a solid company with an excellent team and several customers and partners.