MIRhosting Strengthens Compliance and Customer Screening with Handelzeker Integration
MIRhosting Strengthens Compliance and Customer Screening with Handelzeker Integration
MIRhosting is strengthening its security and compliance framework through a new integration with Handelzeker, a Dutch provider of automated customer due diligence and sanctions screening solutions.
The partnership is currently being implemented via API and is designed to improve how MIRhosting handles customer onboarding, sanctions checks, abuse prevention, and ongoing risk monitoring. Through this integration, customer data can be screened automatically against multiple international sources, including EU sanctions lists, PEP registers, and adverse media databases.
For MIRhosting, this step reflects a broader shift in how security is understood in infrastructure. Traditional risks such as hacking and DDoS attacks remain important, but legal, compliance, and reputational risks now require the same level of attention.
As an internationally operating Dutch company, MIRhosting is further structuring its internal onboarding and control processes around sanctions compliance, Wwft obligations, AML/CTF requirements, and the prevention of terrorist financing. The goal is not only to meet regulatory expectations, but also to reduce operational blind spots and strengthen long-term risk management.
According to MIRhosting, structured customer screening is becoming an essential part of running infrastructure responsibly. In practice, insufficient due diligence can create serious operational, legal, and reputational exposure — not only for providers themselves, but also for partners and legitimate customers.
The company says its compliance model follows a privacy-by-default approach and remains aligned with GDPR, relevant EU regulations, and the Digital Services Act. Customer content is processed only when explicitly requested by the customer or when MIRhosting receives a lawful request from a competent authority.
The decision to strengthen internal procedures was also influenced by a previous situation in which a customer became indirectly linked to sanctions. In line with applicable obligations, services were terminated immediately and external legal experts were involved to ensure the case was handled carefully and properly documented.
“These situations can arise at any time, even after onboarding,” said Andrey Nesterenko, Founder of MIRhosting. “That is why we invest in stronger internal procedures and continuous monitoring. Handelzeker is an important component in this, but always within a broader system that we are actively improving.”
MIRhosting expects the Handelzeker integration to support faster and more reliable customer checks, while further professionalizing the company’s overall security and compliance policy.