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Re: Identify Finder
From: Isac Balder <piis8 () YAHOO COM>
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:53:12 -0800
So far we are impressed. Though it skips information not in a dashed format. We had a few instances were home brew apps were handling data without the dash and Identity finder missed it. On the other hand I'll take that over a slew of false positives on straight nine digit numbers. I have heard that the vendor is working on a central reporting / management server. Yes it only finds data that is resident and not in transmission. But we have found that most users are not even aware of the data that is on their system. Step 1) identitfy, Step 2) eduacate, Step 3) mitigate the transmission factor. The thing we really liked about Identity Finder was the ease of use for the average user, the fact that it scans the Outlook PST files (were we tend to find the block of data), and none ASCII files like PDF. I.B. --- "McNeil, Sharon McLawhorn" <McLawhorns () ECU EDU> wrote:
Does anyone have experience with the scanning tool "Identify Finder"? We're looking for a tool to assist us in discovering sensitive data such as SSN's, credit card numbers, etc. Thanks, Sharon M. McNeil IT Security Analyst Dept. of ITCS East Carolina University 252-328-9112 (Phone) 252-328-4258 (Fax) mclawhorns () ecu edu
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Current thread:
- Identify Finder McNeil, Sharon McLawhorn (Feb 27)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Identify Finder Gary Dobbins (Feb 27)
- Re: Identify Finder Halliday,Paul (Feb 27)
- Re: Identify Finder Petreski, Samuel (Feb 27)
- Re: Identify Finder Isac Balder (Feb 27)
- Re: Identify Finder Brad Judy (Feb 27)
- Re: Identify Finder Theodore Pham (Feb 27)
- Re: Identify Finder Allison Dolan (Feb 28)
- Re: Identify Finder Nick Silkey (Feb 28)
- Re: Identify Finder Howell, Paul (Feb 28)
- Re: Identify Finder Mike Lococo (Feb 28)
- Re: Identify Finder Brad Judy (Feb 28)
- Re: Identify Finder Roger Safian (Feb 28)
- Re: Identify Finder Shamblin, Quinn (shamblqn) (Feb 28)
- Re: Identify Finder Felecia Vlahos (Feb 28)