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Re: Scanner for sensitive information


From: Roger Safian <r-safian () NORTHWESTERN EDU>
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:08:18 -0500

At 09:58 AM 6/16/2008, Wayne Bullock put fingers to keyboard and wrote:
I’m being asked to scan our web servers

Scanning for PII (if you had access to the hosts) can be
a fairly resource intensive task.  Perhaps you might
consider getting access to a full backup of the systems
in question, restoring it to a separate offline host,
and scanning that?




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