The indexing process

This consists of inspecting and storing the contents of all files supported by Cytomic Data Watch. This process is indispensable to generate the PII file inventory and to search for files on computers by their contents. The indexing process is configured transparently when enabling any of the aforementioned two features. The indexed information is stored locally in the following path on each user’s computer: %ProgramData%\Panda Security\Panda Security Protection\indexstore.

Despite indexing processes have a low impact on computer performance, they may take considerable time. For that reason, Cytomic Data Watch is configured to launch the process only once on each computer on the network at the time the module is enabled and every time the entity detection technology is updated for improvement purposes.

After the indexing process is complete, Cytomic Data Watch starts monitoring the creation of new files as well as the deletion and modification of existing ones, updating the index and sending newly detected entities to the Advanced EDR server every 24 hours.

Configuring the scope, schedule, and type of indexing processes

You can exclude certain files and folders from indexing processes and even change the accuracy of the searches conducted by Cytomic Data Watch.