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Phil_Rosier
Level 4
9 years ago

Does Data Insight Support PGP Encrypted Folders?

I have a Data Insight customer who is in the process of deploying PGP to provide secure encrypted folders for their file-shares. Is this supported, and does it require any changes to the collectors to enables Data Insight to scan these folders?

Kind Regards

Phil.

 


 

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  • Rishi_Thaper's avatar
    Rishi_Thaper
    9 years ago

    Hi Phil,

    Can you provide more details on the encryption mechanism used by the customer?

    As I understand, If a pgp zip file is created, then Data Insight would see that folder as a file and would not unzip underlying files. If folder has encrypted files, those files will be scanned by Data Insight.

    Regards,

    Rishi

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    Rishi_Thaper
    Level 4
    9 years ago

    Hi Phil,

    Can you provide more details on the encryption mechanism used by the customer?

    As I understand, If a pgp zip file is created, then Data Insight would see that folder as a file and would not unzip underlying files. If folder has encrypted files, those files will be scanned by Data Insight.

    Regards,

    Rishi

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    Phil_Rosier
    Level 4
    9 years ago

    Hi Rishi,

    That makes sense for encrypted files, but in the case of encrypted folders wouldn't Data Insight need to have the keys to open (traverse) the folders in order to discover and scan the files contained within them.

    Kind regards

    Phil

     

     

     

     

  • Rishi_Thaper's avatar
    Rishi_Thaper
    Level 4
    9 years ago

    Hi Phil,

    Data Insight should be agnostic to encryption as it does not look at the content while scanning. No changes should be required to scan such folders.

    Regards,

    Rishi