Open-source Forensics Tools for Network and System Administrators

Things that must be considered when using Spider:

1. Get your local technical support involved. If you have local technical support it is best to request their help and get them involved when using Spider. They can help ensure local procedures are followed and provide valuable guidance and insight into Spider's use.
2. Promptly remove the resulting Spider log file. Since this file can contain direct pointers to some very sensitive information, this file must be very well protected and removed promptly to ensure it isn't used by unauthorized people.
3. Verify each file that Spider finds. Due to the method Spider uses to discover potentially sensitive files, Spider produces false alarms. Each file must be verified to ensure the data is truly a social security number or credit card number before decisions can be made concerning what to do with the file.
4. If you run into problems running Spider contact security-services@cornell.edu. You can also send questions to the Spider mailing list, cuspider-l@cornell.edu.

To subscribe to cuspider-l, send mail to lyris@cornell.edu with the following in the body of the message: subscribe cuspider-l "Your Name"