Re: Identity Finder

[Harold Winshel <winshel () CAMDEN RUTGERS EDU>]

Do you have to renew Identify Finder every year?

At 04:31 PM 12/17/2009, Ben Woelk wrote:
> We're doing an Enterprise rollout at RIT. Our security engineer
> (Paul Lepkowski) should be able to answer any questions.
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> From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv
> [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Richard A MacLaughlin
> Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 4:00 PM
> To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
> Subject: [SECURITY] Identity Finder
>
> I am looking into products (or free utilities) that can scan for
> SSNs, credit card information, and anything else that would be
> considered sensitive.  Currently, we use Cornell Spider, but I'm
> looking for something more powerful and consistent.  It has been
> mentioned to me before to look into Identity Finder as a  potential
> solution and it looks promising, but I was wondering if any of you
> had any hands-on experience with Identity Finder or if you could
> recommend a better or different product?
>
> I've contacted their sales department to give me some more
> information about specific questions I have, but I'll reiterate one
> question here in case any of you have hands-on experience.  It seems
> like the product is primarily geared toward Windows environments, so
> I'm wondering how successful (if at all) it is at finding any true
> positives when scanning file extensions that aren't native to
> Windows.  Of course, I'll reiterate that I'm definitely open-minded
> to other solutions beside Identity Finder if there is something better.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Richard A. MacLaughlin
> Information Security
> Valdosta State University
> Phone:  (229) 333-5974

Harold Winshel
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