Practical Security Automation and Testing

Privacy search tools

Using regular expression patterns is the first step in building your own secure code scanning service. It's easy to use GREP to quickly search for specified patterns. In the next sections, we will introduce three tools that can make these search jobs easier:

Tool name	Key characteristics
The Silver Searcher	This works similarly to Linux GREP for full-text searches in files, but it's much faster. It can support multiple platforms and is easy to use: https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher.
ReDataSense	This is useful for searching for PII in a MySQL database or in files. It can also define flexible search patterns/rules. It's a Java program but can also support multiple platforms: https://github.com/redglue/redsense ...