Title :
Personally Identifiable Information: Identifying unprotected PII using file-indexing search tools and quantitative analysis
Author :
Matthews, Brandis W. ; Esterline, Albert
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., North Carolina A&T State Univ., Greensboro, NC, USA
Abstract :
This paper reports on a project in which employees at Federal agencies are surveyed regarding their knowledge of security policies in place in their offices and their knowledge of PII (Personally Identifiable Information) stored on their systems.
Keywords :
data privacy; security of data; Federal agencies; file-indexing search tools; personally identifiable information; quantitative analysis; security policies; unprotected PII identification; Computer science; Credit cards; Data security; File systems; Government; Hardware; Indexing; Information analysis; Information security; Information technology;
Conference_Titel :
IEEE SoutheastCon 2010 (SoutheastCon), Proceedings of the
Conference_Location :
Concord, NC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5854-7
DOI :
10.1109/SECON.2010.5453810
