On Friday afternoon (3-6-2009) I had an hour long discussion by phone with Identity Finder CEO Todd Feinman.  For those not familiar with what Identity Finder is, this is software that (nominally) you run on a client and it give a report of data that appears to it as being sensitive in nature.  The smarts of the product comes in pattern matching SSN, credit card numbers, health record numbers based on an array of criteria this company keeps track of.  They also claim to do a good job keeping any false positives to a minimum e.g. there are strings of numbers that form legitimate SSNs and others that don’t.

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In an effort to address information security concerns, several teams have been formed to make recommendations to improve to processes, skills, systems design and technology in IT Services.

These are the areas of effort where teams have been tasked to specific categories of information security.