Identity Finder

For detailed information about Identity Finder, please see the product's Manual.

1. Starting the program: Open Identity Finder using “Open Advanced Interface” option. Select the types of information you want to search for (SS#, Bank account #, Drivers licenses, Passport Numbers, etc.)

Note: Once you have started using Identity Finder and completed searches, each time you open the software it will display the last search you made. To perform a new search, you will need to start by adding the location you want to scan, using the “Custom Folders” tool at “Configurations”. (See next step in these instructions)

2. Selecting folders to scan. Go to “Locations." Select “Costume Folders."

2.1. Find the location of the folders you want to scan using the buttons “…”, and then “Add”. If there is a folder you do NOT want to scan, select it and check the box “Add as Exclusion”. Click on buttons “Apply” and “OK”.

Notes:

a. Use a work copy of the files as the software allows you to modify files you are scanning.

b. Each time you want to perform a new search, you will need to Remove the previous file location and Add the new one. The software saves the settings of the last search you executed.

3. Starting the search: Go to the “Main” menu at the top tool bar. Click on the button “Start”. Identity Finder will display a window showing the search progress, and the types of sensitive data found (SS#, credit card information, etc). Also, you will see the results listed at the back.

Note: Be very cautious when performing this search, as the program will display ALL sensitive information found. It will appear where the yellow figures are in the image below.

You can “hide” the sensitive data form the table search results using the tool “Mask Results” at the “Configuration” section. That will replace the information with stars. However, that will NOT hide the information from the preview, nor from the report.

4. Generating, exporting and saving a report: We do not want to save the list sensitive information itself but of the file paths and the type of matches found. For saving the match report, select only the columns you want to save from the report table. Then click on “File”, “Save as”. A regular “Save as window” will display.

Click on “Options” to select the columns you want included in your report. Make sure the field “Identity Match” is NOT checked. Click on “OK”. Then, add the file name (preferable RS# and IDFinder suffix: 2620191_IDFinder), choose the .csv file format, choose where do you want to save your report and click on “OK”.

5. Searches without Identity Matches: If a search does not find any sensitive information, a window with a search summary will pop out showing the number of files searched and the no-match notice. In that case, create a “readme” note to document the “no-match” result that sensitive content was not found.

6. Place the report or readme note (depending on whether the search yielded any results) in the pdi > docs folder.