What is Document Detective?
Document Detective is an interactive desktop application that works with Microsoft Office to expose and remove hidden data that could compromise sensitive information. Document Detective also scans Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) and HTML files for hidden content, but it can not remove the hidden content from these file types. [Table of Contents] Why do I need it? To make their applications user friendly, developers collect information in anticipation of the user’s future needs and store the information in the application’s data files. This happens automatically without the user’s knowledge or consent. ManTech International Corporation has discovered proprietary and classified information in unprotected files retrieved from email and the Internet. Federal law requires certain types of information to be protected, and there have been numerous incidents in the press where a company’s reputation or financial status has been affected by information that was accidently exposed by hidde