"Information is the world's new currency. It must be guarded to protect against unauthorized disclosure, loss, or theft"
IDC Study, 2008
"Before you can protect it, first you must find it" - PixAlert, 2008
What is Critical Data Auditor?
Data protection is now a critical corporate governance issue
in the boardroom. Recent high profile data leakage events
have damaged reputations while rising legislative and
standards requirements create imperatives for action in this
area.
Data Leakage Prevention (DLP) programs can help to
secure critical and sensitive data, but firstly you must locate
& identify the information you need to protect. Critical Data
Auditor™ by PixAlert is scanning software to rapidly locate
critical information and discover risk on company networks.
Why Use it?
PixAlert's Critical Data Auditor is used to:
- satisfy legislation-based requirements;
- ensure compliance with policies & standards;
- conduct internal investigations;
- meet critical business or operational needs;
- perform audit & risk assessments.
Typical Applications
PixAlert's Critical Data Auditor is used to:
- find & protect Intellectual Property;
- satisfy Freedom of Information requests, Competition Authority investigations, e-discovery orders and HR processes;
- conduct Due Diligence prior to acquisitions;
- check for confidentiality during 'quiet periods';
- check compliance with Data Retention, Data Protection Acts and other legislation;
- identify requirements for data archiving and data leakage prevention programs
- discover relevant data in criminal or civil investigations;
- Investigate for inappropriate or illegal use of I.T. resources;
- Identify critical data for back-up or encryption.
Identity Theft costs the UK economy £1.7billion
Home Office Identity Fraud Steering Committee, 2007Critical Data Auditor can aid compliance with standards, such as:
- Sarbanes Oxley Act;
- Basel II;
- EU data retention directive;
- UK Data Protection Act;
- EU Markets in Financial Instruments Directive;
- Payment Card Industry Standard (PCI);
- EU Audit and Privacy Directives;
- ISO 27001 information security standard;
- SB-1386: Security Breach Information Act;
- Gramm-Leach-Bliley Financial Services Modernization Act.
"as much as 60% of corporate data resides unprotected on PC desktops and laptops."
Key Features
- No impact - on users or business critical systems;
- No software installed - on scan targets;
- Scans data at rest - which has been left unprotected on the file system;
- Network Coverage - detects critical information on PCs, File Servers and Corporate Email Servers;
- File coverage - no other software scans as many file types including Microsoft® Office, PDF, Email and Zip files;
- Comprehensive reports - provides management with up-to-date vulnerability assessment;
- Identifies vulnerabilities - in business practice and procedures and addresses them.
Who should use it?
- Companies in regulated industries;
- Government Departments & public sector bodies;
- companies subject to PCI Security Standards Council regulation;
- companies compliant or certified for standards such as ISO 27000;
- Law firms, Auditors and professional services bodies;
- Regulatory authorities.
"The average cost for compromised data
grew to £101 per record, up 43% since 2005"
The Ponemon Institute
What does it look for?
PixAlert Critical Data Auditor can be used to search for
both structured data patterns (such as credit card
numbers, social security numbers and passport data) and
occurrences of unstructured search terms (such as a
company or product name, a specific social security
number or address etc.)
Search types can be combined, for example Critical Data
Auditor may be tasked to find all documents containing
any credit card numbers associated with a particular
account holder or any emails containing specific data sent
outside of the organisation from a particular email
address.
Once a combination of search terms has been determined
by the user, Critical Data Auditor can index all mails &
documents found matching the search terms. More refined
searches may then be rapidly executed against the
indexed data.
System Requirements
No software is required on the systems to be scanned.
PixAlert Critical Data Auditor is designed to run from PCs.
The minimum hardware and operating system
requirements detailed below refer to the auditing computer
and are NOT a requirement for target computers whose
files systems are being audited.
PixAlert Auditor Hardware Requirements
- Desktop PC;
- 2Gb RAM;
- 10 GB free disk space.
Operating System Requirements
- MS Windows® XP Professional;
- MS Windows 2003 Server.
PixAlert Critical Data Auditor scans
- Microsoft Windows® operating systems;
- Unix / Linux operating systems;
- Novell Netware;
- Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes, Novell GroupWise;
- Citrix Servers.
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