De-NISTing
De-NISTing

A typical desktop computer can contain between 10,000 and 100,000 files, each of which may need to be reviewed. In order to eliminate as many known irrelevant files as possible from having to be reviewed, an automated filter program can screen files for specific profiles and signatures. If a specific file profile and signature match the database of known irrelevant files, then the file can be eliminated from review. Only those files that do not are subject to further investigation. This process can considerably reduce the volume of data your team has to review. Why waste you and your team’s time reviewing driver files, settings files, and other non-unique irrelevant files?

The National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) manages a list of known software signatures at the National Software Reference Library (NSRL). Our complex software has the ability to use this list with your data to screen them against the known software signatures. This will once again help your team save time and money by only needing to concentrate on the potentially relevant data.