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Kevin Willems, Software developer at iText Software BVBA

PDF Days Europe 2018

Pdf Redaction

Kevin Willems Software developer @ iText Software

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What are we going to see

What is redaction

Why should you redact

What should you redact

Methods of redaction

When to redact

Getting redaction right

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What is redaction?

Redaction is removing privileged, sensitve or protected information

from a document.

This is typically done before publishing,

distributing or archiving

documents.

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What is redaction?

Ms. Cowley was shot by Mr. James on 4:11 pm.

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Why should you redact?

• Reduce classification level

Secrecy protection

• Guarantee safety and anonymity • Secure sensative data • GDPR Compliance

Privacy protection

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What should be redacted?

Employee and customer data

• Social Security numbers • Medical information • Names • Drivers license or

professional license numbers

• Individuals’ addresses, dates and months of birth,..

• Other unique identifiers

Company Data

• Financial documents and files

• Proprietary information and trade secrets

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What should be redacted?

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Methods of redaction

Page location/region

Regular Expressions

Artificial Intelligence

Manual

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Page location/region specific redaction

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Redaction using regex

Social Security Numbers: xxx-xxx-xxxx Credit Card Numbers: xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx or 3xxx xxxxxx xxxxx Email addresses: [email protected]/org/net/(other TLDs)

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Artificial Intelligence

Face recognition

Semantic analysis

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Manual Redaction

Try to avoid

When unavoidable:

follow a documented

process

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When to redact

Upon acquisition

Prior to distribution

Once the ‘work’ is

done

Prior to archival

Prior to disposal

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Getting it right!

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Determine your tools

Decide on what to redact

Decide on the method(s) you will use

Decide when the data should be redacted

Implement your redaction process


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