AIL - The design and implementation of an Analysis Information Leak framework
Sami Mokaddem, Gérard Wagener, Alexandre Dulaunoy · 2018
Information leaks are now the hard reality of the digital revolution. There is not a single day without a leak of personal identifiable information (PII) showing up on the Internet. CSIRTs and CERTs are actively working on searching for, discovering of, and analysing the plethora of information leaks. Nevertheless this is a dauntingly laborious and tedious task. In order to simplify this process, CIRCL, as a national CERT for the private sector, designed and implemented a modular framework to assist and improve the handling of information leaks. The AIL framework is an open source software which includes a set of collection and analysis modules to automatically find potential leaks of sensitive information. In this paper, the design and the current implementation of the framework is described along with the rationales behind the development strategies and choices. Additionally, future work and research topics are discussed.