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Re: Scanner for sensitive information


From: Wyman Miles <wm63 () CORNELL EDU>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:27:31 -0400

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Coming late to the party owing to an e-mail outage.

Spider3 will scan HTTP/HTTPS sites using arbitrary credentials, process
whatever file types it finds there, etc.  IdentityFinder has the same
capabilities.



- --On Monday, June 16, 2008 11:53 AM -0400 "Watson, Michael"
<michael.watson () VITA VIRGINIA GOV> wrote:

Does anyone have one that will do online sites?  I'm fairly certain
these could be modified to do so but if someone already has it why
duplicate work!  Thanks in advance!



-----Original Message-----
From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv
[mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Randy Marchany
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 11:36 AM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Scanner for sensitive information

The 3 best (in no particular order) freeware sensitive number scan tools
are:

1. VA Tech's Find_SSNs available from http://security.vt.edu. Hey, I'm
from VT
so of course, I'll put ours first :-).
2. Cornell's Spider Tool available from
http://www.cit.cornell.edu/security/too
ls
3. UT-Austin's Sensitive Number Finder Tool (SENF) available from
https://source.its.utexas.edu/groups/its-iso/projects/senf

Some of the Virginia schools including VT are also using a commercial
tool,
IdentityFinder from www.identityfinder.com. It is able to check .pst
files and
PDFs for sensitive info.

      -Randy Marchany
      VA Tech IT Security Office & Lab



Wyman Miles
Manager, Security Engineering
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
(607) 255-8421
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