So, you’re considering buying software for discovery of PII / PCI / PHI. Or about to start your trial of PII Tools. How to test discovery SW properly?
Finding Affected Persons in a Data Breach
There was a data breach, the clock starts ticking. The dataset is large. How do you quickly determine who’s affected and how?
Exclude PII / PCI / PHI From a Breach Report
When responding to a breach incident, having a clear idea who’s affected and how is a matter of urgency. Manual discovery of PII information is tedious and costly, so automated solutions come in handy. But how to deal with false positives?
How To Automate Personal Data Discovery
The recent wave of privacy legislations around the world introduced new challenges to experts in litigation support, incident response and auditing. How can modern automation help with reliable PII discovery across emails, files, and databases? 3 Reasons Keywords Fail Traditional approaches based on manually defined keywords and regular expressions fail for three fundamental reasons: High cost. Keywords and regexps are … Read More
Export PII drill-down reports
In the latest February release (version 2.4.0), we combined Personal Data Analytics search with dynamic HTML report generation to make GDPR compliance and auditing easier. PII Tools already supports dynamic PII Analytics queries to locate personal, sensitive and intimate information. It also generates drill-down PII audit reports for completed data scans. In the latest release, we combined these two capabilities. You can now … Read More
Personal Data Analytics
The latest 2.0 release of PII Tools brings a brand new SAR dashboard, allowing targeted personal data search, filtering and analytics. Locating Information for Data Subject Access Requests What if you want to find all data related to a specific person for Subject Access Requests? Or filter and export all data containing financial information? We’ve added support for those use-cases … Read More
Scanning Office 365 for sensitive PII information
PII Tools has been able to analyze PII in Windows file shares and workstations for a while now. The new #1 request has been to discover personal & sensitive data inside Office 365 accounts (Sharepoint Online, Exchange Online, OneDrive). Since we listen to our customers, I have a happy announcement to make: Starting with release 1.6.0, PII Tools can automatically scans … Read More