Spirion
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Spirion is a tool used to discover, identify and secure personally identifiable information (PII). Spirion is capapable of identifying PII such as Social Security Numbers, drivers license numbers, Passport id numbers. It is also capable of identifying PCI data such as credit card numbers. 鶹Ƶ is committed to protecting this sensitive information. The first step to protecting this information is using a tool like Spirion to discover and identify the data in order to ensure it is stored and accessed using a secure method.


Install Spirion

Windows

  1. Click the Start Menu/Screen button and start typing Software Center or locate the Software Center in the Start Menu/Screen.
    1. In Software Center under Applications, click on Spirion and click Install

Apple OSX

  1. Open up the Managed Software Center application. Use Spotlight and type in Managed Software Center or navigate to the Applications folder and launch Managed Software Center Spotlight managesoftware.png Finder managesoftware.png
  2. While in Managed Software Center, find the Spirion icon, and click Install. This will install Spirion .
  3. Find Spirion in your applications folder and open it.
  4. Log in with your 鶹Ƶ username and password.

Run a Spirion Scan

By default Spirion is configured to scan the the computer for:

  • Social Security Numbers
  • Credit Card Numbers

To start a scan with the default settings, please follow the directions below.

  1. From the Start Menu start typing, Spirion.
  2. Select the Spirion application from the start menu to launch it.
  3. If this is the first time you have launched Spirion, you will be asked to enter a password. This password is used to encrypt the results. Enter a unique password that will only used for this purpose.
  4. Click Start to begin a scan. Spirion can be left open in the background while the scan completes.
  5. After the scan completes, results will be shown in the Spirion console.
  6. Please review the results and remove any unnecessary data from your device.
    1. To remove any unnecessary data from the computer by selecting the results and clicking the Shred option. This will delete the data from the computer.