Identity Finder at Work

Employee Initiated Scans

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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.