Information Protection and Security

 Free software is available to scan for non-public personal information.  

Sensitive Number Finder, or SENF is available through the University of Texas, and Spider is software available from Cornell. Both are easy to use tools to find sensitive numbers on systems with data that may represent social security or credit card numbers.
Cornell's Spider
SENF

Below is a link to a brief presentation with audio showing how easy it is to scan for NPPI on a Windows O/S. Instructions for other operating systems can be found on the Spider tools site above.

"Working With Spider"