Compliance, incident analysis, the regex behind high-fidelity detection, and the occasional opinionated post about how this category is built.
Learn how to scan network drives and NAS devices for PII, including practical advice on mapping network paths, handling permissions, dealing with millions of files, and scheduling scans outside business hours.
Cloud-based PII scanners require sending your data to someone else's servers. For defense, healthcare, finance, and legal organizations, that's a non-starter. Here's how local-only scanning works and why it matters.
How to scan PDFs for PII, find PII in documents like Word and Excel files, and why unstructured data is the biggest blind spot in most compliance programs.
Analysis of the Samsung Germany data breach exposing 270,000 customer tickets. Learn what PII was leaked and steps to protect yourself.
Essential best practices for implementing PII scanning in your organization, from data inventory to encryption and employee training.
Learn why encrypting and securing PII is crucial for privacy, preventing identity theft, maintaining trust, and complying with GDPR and CCPA regulations.
Understanding PII data discovery - what it is, why it matters, and how organizations use it to find and protect sensitive personal information.
Compare the top 10 file-based PII scanning tools including ManageEngine, Spirion, Varonis, and PII Crawler to find the best fit for your organization.
Common regex patterns for detecting SSNs, emails, phone numbers, and credit cards in PII scanning, plus why NER methods often work better.
Learn how to enumerate and discover files across your system for comprehensive PII scanning, including network shares and cloud storage.