When should we use Encrypted Files Search

Introduction

Many users apply file encryption for their privacy protection. They may lock some their personal documents or folders, maybe, they do not want anyone to see the content. So, it is their right, but sometimes the encrypted files may contain some harmful information. In this case one should open them and check, what is there.  

Hide by renaming

Often users try to hide the encrypted files for in many organizations it ia forbidden. They may rename it from “a.pgp” to “a.doc”, for example, and the custom Windows Search will not find them. In this case you may use the Encrypted File Search, which searches the encrypted files not depending on their claimed format.

The Encrypted Files Search may be applied in many ways

For example, you are using the encrypted files, and you forgot, where they are stored. Or you are the Network Administrator, and you should control the encrypted files usage, if it is forbidden and you should warn the users.

The Encrypted File Search has some useful features - it may not only find the encrypted files, but it may create the reports - to save the found files to some specified folder or to generate an HTML page, consisting the found files list. And it may work not only with local, but with the Local Area Network drives, if the user, applying it, has the administrator's right.

One more way, how the Encrypted Files Search may be applied, is the search in encrypted ZIP-archives. You may have hundreds on encrypted ZIP files, and how to find the required data? The Encrypted Files Search will help for it has the function to search in encrypted archives.