Peer to Peer Enterprise Search and Privacy

• P2P search

  • indexers on workstations

  • send to main index

  • or respond to search requests (distributed search)

• Capture valuable information not published on the Intranet

• Keep indexes current

• Security & Privacy implications

  • Hard to keep personal items from being indexed

  • Even "public" folders often store private files

  • Could expose company secrets and confidential information

  • Enterprise may have legal liabilities based on storage in index