Services · Background Investigations

A hardened facility still depends
on who gets in.

Walls protect the site. Access controls protect the systems. Global Verification Network (GVN) gives you the verified facts behind the decision to trust a person or a company with either one.

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The question behind the wall

You can harden a building and still hand someone the key.

A protected facility is operated, maintained and supplied by people. Employees, contractors and vendors need access to sensitive spaces, systems and information, and each of those relationships is a decision somebody makes.

GVN provides background screening, credential verification and investigative due diligence so that decision rests on verified information rather than an assumption.

Screening does not predict conduct and does not guarantee safety. It gives your organization a stronger factual basis for the controls you already run.

Verification informs a facility access decision Illustrative path from people and partners, through GVN screening and verification, to the organization's own decision about access to a protected facility and its systems. ACCESS DECISION · CONCEPT DIAGRAM Employees Contractors Partners GVN SCREEN VERIFY PROTECTED FACILITY THE ORGANIZATION MAKES THE ACCESS DECISION GVN supplies verified information. You set and apply the policy.

A decision path

From a name on a request to an informed access decision.

GVN's work sits before the badge, the maintenance visit, the supplier agreement or the system account.

  1. 01

    Identify the relationship

    Name the role and the exposure. An employee, a contractor, an executive, a vendor principal or a partner company seeking access or responsibility.

  2. 02

    Establish the facts

    GVN scopes checks to the decision: background information, claimed qualifications, employment history, and due diligence on the entities behind a relationship.

  3. 03

    Apply your policy

    You review the findings, follow applicable law and your own standards, and decide what role or access, if any, is appropriate.

Decision-making framework: identify the issue, gather information, evaluate options, make the decision, implement, then monitor and review, with continuous improvement feeding back into evaluation.
A general decision framework. GVN’s work is step two — gathering the verified information the rest of the process runs on. Every step after it stays inside your organization.

The GVN service

Screening scoped to the decision, not to a fixed checklist.

Global Verification Network

GVN is a consumer reporting agency that provides high-caliber, fully customized background screening tailored to complex organizational needs. Checks are combined to match the position or the relationship being evaluated, and not every check is appropriate or available for every role or jurisdiction.

People

  • Employment screening
  • Criminal records
  • Driver records
  • Drug testing
  • Tenant screening

Qualifications

  • Education verifications
  • License verifications
  • Reference verifications
  • International verifications

Relationships

  • Due diligence
  • Vetting and investigative services

Compliance. GVN states that every team member holds a Fair Credit Reporting Act certificate and that its senior leaders hold the FCRA Advanced Certificate from the Professional Background Screening Association (PBSA). Screening is performed under applicable law, appropriate consent and an agreed scope.

Security-sensitive settings

The same question, in very different facilities.

Illustrative planning examples. They are not descriptions of existing GVN engagements, and not every check is available for every role or jurisdiction.

  • 01 / Data & communicationsData centers

    Staff and service contractors enter equipment areas or hold administrative responsibility. Screening and credential verification inform permissions, escort rules and continuing review.

  • 02 / Essential operationsUtilities & telecom

    Field teams and outside vendors support substations, communications sites and operations centers. Personnel screening pairs with due diligence on the firms behind them.

  • 03 / Public missionGovernment & public safety

    Agencies evaluate employees, contractors and supporting organizations. Any separate suitability, clearance or credentialing process required by the role remains its own process.

Physical, technical, human

Digital security has a human access path.

Your security team manages accounts, devices, segmentation and monitoring. Your facility team manages barriers, gates and protected rooms. Both rest on decisions about which people and which companies are permitted to work with those assets.

GVN informs those decisions, particularly where a role touches sensitive systems, protected information or critical operations. It complements technical and physical controls. It does not test networks and does not replace them.

  • Privileged staff. Personnel who administer or support sensitive systems.
  • On-site contractors. Installers, maintenance teams and specialist technicians entering restricted areas.
  • Third-party firms. Suppliers and partners entrusted with critical work or information.

Where the line is

GVN supplies the facts. You make the decision.

A report is an input to a controlled decision. It is not the decision, and it is not a control.

It does not grant access. It does not replace supervision, escort rules or periodic review. It does not stand in for the barriers, gates and protected rooms around the asset, or for the accounts, devices and monitoring inside it. And it cannot tell you what a person will do — only what the record shows about what they have done and what they have claimed.

What it does is remove the guess from one decision your organization was going to make anyway. You set the policy, you apply it, and you own the outcome — on a stronger factual basis than a résumé and an interview.

The physical side of the same problem

Global Verification Network

Working with GVN

How the work gets scoped.

  1. 01

    Describe the role

    Who is being evaluated, and what facility, system, data or business relationship is involved.

  2. 02

    Set the scope

    GVN identifies the relevant and permissible checks for the decision in front of you.

  3. 03

    Review findings

    GVN reports verified information and investigative findings under the agreed process.

  4. 04

    Decide and manage

    You make the decision and run your own access, supervision and review controls.

Why this sits alongside Amidon

Built protection. Informed trust.

Amidon protects the facility envelope with tested materials. Global Verification Network, an operating company in the same ownership group, provides the information behind decisions about the people and organizations working inside it.

Amidon
Protective materials for facilities, spaces and perimeters.
GVN
Screening, verification and investigative due diligence.
Your team
Access policy, identity management, cybersecurity and oversight.

Each company contracts separately and runs its own intake, consent and compliance process. GVN screening is performed under applicable law, appropriate consent and an agreed scope. Government suitability and clearance processes remain separate and are not performed by GVN.

Who needs to be trusted with this facility or system?

Tell us the roles and relationships you need to evaluate and we will route your screening inquiry to the GVN team. To reach GVN directly, call 877-695-1179.

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