right tool(s) for data classification request
Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2017 12:43 pm
We are already licensed for IA and use it for traditional data profiling against relational databases. Recently some interesting questions have arisen.
A customer needs to crawl a large number of servers (web servers, file servers, database servers, application servers, etc.) to find where sensitive data resides (like PII), which is one of the features that IA advertises. With the wide variety of servers and file types, I assume they cannot be predefined as importable metadata.
This sounds a bit like what an antivirus product does except that it would try to classify the data.
Does IA have any file-crawling capabilities that could be used to find where PII data resides in this scenario?
Is there another tool or utility that could possibly be used to bridge the gap to help IA to find the sensitive data?
Or is there a more appropriate tool for the job?
A customer needs to crawl a large number of servers (web servers, file servers, database servers, application servers, etc.) to find where sensitive data resides (like PII), which is one of the features that IA advertises. With the wide variety of servers and file types, I assume they cannot be predefined as importable metadata.
This sounds a bit like what an antivirus product does except that it would try to classify the data.
Does IA have any file-crawling capabilities that could be used to find where PII data resides in this scenario?
Is there another tool or utility that could possibly be used to bridge the gap to help IA to find the sensitive data?
Or is there a more appropriate tool for the job?