Search for hidden files to protect your information
Security of information is very important in the modern age of technology. Those who possess information possess the world. This is entirely true. Nowadays, companies use sophisticated methods to protect commercial and other sensitive information. Indeed, losing information may cost millions.
In often happens that employees of big companies illegally store and share classified and secret information. And the best way to protect files from being viewed is to protect them with password. This is easy and does not require special knowledge. So any employee may copy a document with commercial information and archive it with password protection.
Of course, security departments of big companies have to keep a watchful eye on computers in the network. AKS-LABS offers a great solution to search for password protected files stored in network computers – Show Hidden Files. This program will easily spot password protected documents and archives. As known, such files are the most suspicious, as there should be a reason why a user protected the file with a password.
Show Hidden Files is very easy to use since all features and major functions are located on the main panel. First and foremost, you need to choose location where Show Hidden Files will look for password protected files. As said above this may be a network hard drive or a local computer.
With Show Hidden Files you may look for certain file types. Thus, the program may search for such file types as zip and rar archives, MS Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, Access databases and PGP discs. As you can see, these are very popular extensions widely used in offices. Excel files, for instance, often contain financial information, budgets, accounting reports etc.
Search for hidden files to protect your network
Use trusted software to search for hidden files
The next two tabs concern size of files and dates they were created, modified or accessed. Of course, possessing this information makes it possible to narrow search results. Thus, if you are looking for files larger than 5 MB, you may enter this info in the relevant checkbox, so that Show Hidden Files should ignore smaller files, archives and documents.
In case you know when files were created, modified or accessed then search by date option is the right choice for you (for example you can perform scheduled check-ups every two weeks, so you need only files created, modified or accessed during the recent 14 days).
It is possible to create a txt files with the list of found files, as well as copy all files to a separate folder to further work with them.
