Find and Protect Students' PII
For colleges and universities which must comply with federal law and protect the privacy of sensitive personal information, employment data,
financial records, transcripts, credit histories, medical histories, contact information, social security numbers in an academic environment
where information is designed to flow freely, Identity Finder is a sensitive data discovery and protection software product that finds and
secures student and employee personal information quickly, accurately, and affordably.
Unfortunately, information in your university's BANNER system is accessed by thousands of faculty, staff, and departments, many of whom export the information to parallel "shadow" systems. These shadow systems are the source of almost all university breaches, and often go undetected by traditional data security suites. Unlike traditional data security suites, Identity Finder searches for and protects personal information at its source, finding forgotten personal information on any network system. Whether your computer is infected, lost, stolen, or hacked, Identity Finder ensures your data is safe and prevents breaches before they happen. The unmatched accuracy of our AnyFind™ technology utilizes advanced proprietary algorithms incorporating contextual analysis, proximity checks, validations, industry checksums, minimum counts, and a variety of user customizable settings.
Unfortunately, information in your university's BANNER system is accessed by thousands of faculty, staff, and departments, many of whom export the information to parallel "shadow" systems. These shadow systems are the source of almost all university breaches, and often go undetected by traditional data security suites. Unlike traditional data security suites, Identity Finder searches for and protects personal information at its source, finding forgotten personal information on any network system. Whether your computer is infected, lost, stolen, or hacked, Identity Finder ensures your data is safe and prevents breaches before they happen. The unmatched accuracy of our AnyFind™ technology utilizes advanced proprietary algorithms incorporating contextual analysis, proximity checks, validations, industry checksums, minimum counts, and a variety of user customizable settings.
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Even if you store all student information in secure database systems protected by a small army of security professionals, sensitive Personally Identifiable Information (PII) leaks on a daily basis. Consider these common examples:
Hundreds of higher education institutions protect their students’ sensitive information with Identity Finder DLP, the premiere data discovery and protection tool in higher education. The Identity Finder DLP Console manages centralized reporting and remote administration, remediation, and scheduling while the Identity Finder DLP Endpoint allows employees to take direct action and prevent breaches. These tools were designed to work flawlessly in university settings with multiple IT divisions, policies, and heterogeneous network topologies.
Identity Finder has built an industry-specific solution for institutions of higher education, so they can reduce false positive results, total cost of ownership, and manual efforts. At the core is Identity Finder’s highly accurate AnyFind™ algorithm. The proprietary technology allows Identity Finder to find multiple pieces of sensitive data such as SSNs, Dates of Birth, financial records, transcripts, credit histories, medical histories, contact information, and many others.
Schools such as Cornell University, University of Virginia, Harvard, Penn State, and many more use Identity Finder. In addition, you can now sign-up for the Identity Finder Student Initiative to provide your students Identity Finder Home at no cost to you or the student!
- Spreadsheets: A faculty member backs up a files to his university web space. Unbeknownst to him, the cache of files includes a spreadsheet from 1997 containing grades and student ID numbers, which happened to be social security numbers at the time.
- Lost Laptop: A staff member loses a laptop with old files they didn't realize contain transcript records.
- Old Emails: An employee received a messages with SSNs in 2007, about which she has completely forgotten. The email remains in her inbox to this day.
- Internal Databases: A contractor uses real dates of birth to test a new database application, inadvertently exposing the information.
- USB and Flash Drives: Financial aid personnel backs up a few documents to a USB drive to take home, not realizing it contains financial records and loan information.
Hundreds of higher education institutions protect their students’ sensitive information with Identity Finder DLP, the premiere data discovery and protection tool in higher education. The Identity Finder DLP Console manages centralized reporting and remote administration, remediation, and scheduling while the Identity Finder DLP Endpoint allows employees to take direct action and prevent breaches. These tools were designed to work flawlessly in university settings with multiple IT divisions, policies, and heterogeneous network topologies.
Identity Finder has built an industry-specific solution for institutions of higher education, so they can reduce false positive results, total cost of ownership, and manual efforts. At the core is Identity Finder’s highly accurate AnyFind™ algorithm. The proprietary technology allows Identity Finder to find multiple pieces of sensitive data such as SSNs, Dates of Birth, financial records, transcripts, credit histories, medical histories, contact information, and many others.
Schools such as Cornell University, University of Virginia, Harvard, Penn State, and many more use Identity Finder. In addition, you can now sign-up for the Identity Finder Student Initiative to provide your students Identity Finder Home at no cost to you or the student!