Identity Finder at Work
Employee Initiated Scans
The Information Security Office is coordinating the campus-wide project to search and
clean up sensitive data from each workstation. Starting March 2010 every employee is
encouraged to begin running scans to find sensitive data and clean up their workstation.
Identity Finder (IDF) is the software used to find sensitive data and helps you
securely dispose of it.
Information Technology has installed Identity Finder on each workstation. Identity Finder
comes with initial campus settings for scanning your workstation which will look for sensitive
data like SSNs, credit card numbers and drivers license numbers. You can do more comprehensive
scans by changing the settings to include bank accounts, passwords and passport numbers,
among other things.
Follow the
User Guide for Employee Initiated Scans or go through
the tutorials to learn how
to use Identity Finder and properly handle any sensitive information it finds.