DataSniff Overview

DataSniff: The Solution for Discovering Sensitive Information

In an age of identity theft, protecting sensitive data is a top priority within many enterprise organizations. Stiff fines or high litigation costs are often a consequence of losing unprotected personal data. Losing this information to identity theft may cause unrecoverable damage.

Social security numbers or credit card numbers are often located in multiple locations within an enterprise organization, which presents a difficult task when outlining and deploying a protection strategy. PII could be located in legacy mainframe data, customer service notes, documents, files, datasets, spreadsheets, or even emails. To create a strategy for protecting PII data, it is critical to “MAP” the data and determine where it resides.

Finding PII information in unstructured or structured data can be a challenge. This is especially true within mainframe data sources, where structured data often lacks standardized mechanisms for determining the data structure outside of the application in use.

Over 60% of business critical data is located in Mainframe datacenters. DataSniff is the only Data Discovery solution to reach beyond “Open Systems” to include the Mainframe. This powerful combination of mainframe access technologies blended with Semantic Search technology can locate sensitive information of many different varieties and easily allows organizations to control and protect that data.