PII Crawler
#Application Protection#Data Protection
Kiteworks is a unified platform that secures, tracks, and controls sensitive content communications across email, file sharing, managed file transfer, and web forms to ensure regulatory compliance and data protection.
PII Crawler: A Tool for Identifying Personally Identifiable Information
PII Crawler is a data scanning tool that is specifically designed to identify and locate Personally Identifiable Information (PII) across various types of files and databases.
The software scans text from various sources
The software scans text from a variety of sources, which include:
- Images that are embedded in PDFs
- Word documents
- Excel spreadsheets
- CSV files
- Databases
Detection of PII Including
Social Security Numbers
- Addresses
- Customer names
- Email addresses
The PII Crawler employs Named Entity Recognition (NER), Finite State Machines (FSM), and artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to identify Personally Identifiable Information (PII) while reducing the occurrence of false positives.
It can be run locally and in an air-gapped environment
It can be run locally and in an air-gapped environment, which ensures that sensitive data stays securely within the user's network.
The tool is available across multiple platforms
The tool is accessible as a command-line interface for the Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems.
It generates output in SQLite format and enables database scanning
It produces output in SQLite format and facilitates the process of scanning databases.
