Tool announcement - OpenDLP: Identifying sensitive data at rest on hundreds or thousands of systems simultaneously

[Andrew Gavin <andrew.opendlp () gmail com>]

OpenDLP is a free and open source, agent-based, centrally-managed,
massively distributable data loss prevention tool released under the
GPL. Given appropriate Windows domain credentials, OpenDLP can
simultaneously identify sensitive data at rest on hundreds or
thousands of Microsoft Windows systems from a centralized web
application. This tool is useful for network/system/security
administrators, compliance consultants, and penetration testing
consultants. It can be downloaded from the following URL:

http://OpenDLP.googlecode.com

OpenDLP has two components:

Web Application
- Written in Perl with MySQL backend (developed in Linux with Apache)
- Automatically deploy and start agents over Netbios
- When done, automatically stop, uninstall, and delete agents over Netbios
- Pause, resume, and forcefully uninstall agents in an entire scan or
on individual systems
- Concurrently and securely receive results from hundreds or thousands
of deployed agents over two-way-trusted SSL connection
- Create Perl-compatible regular expressions (PCREs) for finding
sensitive data at rest
- Create reusable profiles for scans that include whitelisting or
blacklisting directories and file extensions
- Review findings and identify false positives
- Export results as XML

Agent
- Written in C with no .NET Framework requirements
- Runs on Windows 2000 and later systems
- Runs as a Windows Service at low priority so users do not see or feel it
- Resumes automatically upon system reboot with no user interaction
- Securely transmit results to web application at user-defined
intervals over two-way-trusted SSL connection
- Uses PCREs to identify sensitive data inside files
- Performs additional checks on potential credit card numbers to
reduce false positives

Future Plans
- Add zip support to agent to read Office 2007 and OpenOffice files
- Add database support to web application to look for sensitive data
inside tables
- Enhance web application interface
- Add export support for Microsoft Word and OpenOffice formats
- Add support for performing trending analysis of different scans with
Microsoft Excel output
- (Perform real-time monitoring of PCs' network cards to report
outbound sensitive data?)

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