Find unattended passwords stored “in clear”
Search for any text in Microsoft® Office®1, Archives or Text documents and Visual Basic®1 code
Passwords stored in clear is one of the most critical security risks companies are facing with potentially huge consequences like theft of sensitive business data, Loss of reputation, etc.
Many passwords are stored unencrypted in non protected locations or documents
Passwords are often stored in clear – e.g. they are not encrypted and thus readable by a human – in local and shared drives, in Text, Word®1, Excel®1, Powerpoint®1, Archive files (e.g. zip) or Visual Basic “macros”. These passwords are potentially accessible by many persons in public or shared folders.
With consequences that need to be avoided at all costs:
- Loss of Information
- Decreased Privacy
- Damaged Reputation
- Lost sales
- Financial Losses
- etc.
EUDYS® PWD helps you to locate potential unattended passwords:
- Locate potential passwords stored in Text, Word®1, Excel®1, PowerPoint®1 and Archive (zip, tar, 7z, wim) documents.
- Locate potential passwords in Visual Basic for Application (VBA) programming code (macros).
- Performs complex searches with your own defined keywords and wildcards
- List all occurrences of potential password matches.
- Easily navigate through matches and highlight them inside their original document and application.
- In a performant2 and ergonomic fashion
1 Microsoft®, Word®, Excel® and Powerpoint® are registered trademarks of the Microsoft Corporation
2 A non-binding performance indication is a million files scanned in thirty minutes on a local disk. This highly depends on the computer performance, number of files scanned and the complexity of the ‘scan’ pattern.