How can you be sure your documents are 100% redacted? In today’s world, data leaks happen far too often when using generic PDF tools for manual redaction. While some tools include built-in redaction features, they often fall short, leaving you to manually identify every sensitive detail. Simply placing a black box over data is also risky, as it can be easily removed, exposing hidden text. Ensuring strong security measures for handling sensitive data is one of the core reasons we’re in business. Here’s how we’re working to prevent data leaks. 1. Catching what the human eye misses At Cleardox, we elevate security by ensuring that our intelligent anonymization software automatically screens and identifies sensitive information across +15 distinct categories (e.g., social security numbers, addresses, phone numbers, etc.). While also making it possible to create your own categories if needed.
This is a very important security measure that we believe is essential since it reduces the chance of human error by automatically scanning documents for sensitive information, instead of manually looking for all of it. This also saves users time from manually reviewing each document line by line and minimizes the risk of missed redactions.
2. The Black Box Illusion Are you sure that simply placing a black box over your text will truly anonymize it? Although some standard PDF programs can technically anonymize information, it’s easy to make mistakes by using only a black overlay. This method often allows the underlying text to remain, meaning the data can be copied and exposed even with the black box in place.
This cannot happen with Cleardox. Once you choose to redact something either by blackling it or pseudonymizing it, it is then securely removed from the downloaded version, making it impossible to retrieve the original data. Even if the black box was removed, there would be nothing underneath.
Cleardox is born with a high level of security: For us, security isn’t just our core value - it’s our mission. A mission we would never compromise with. We aim to enhance the protection of critical data, preventing leaks and ensuring that data is shared and utilized safely and responsibly.
It’s our pleasure to provide an anonymization software solution that prioritizes security at every single step, and in a time when cybersecurity is more important than ever, safeguarding the data of individuals, businesses, and institutions remains our highest priority. As a Cleardox user, you can have complete confidence that your documents are handled with the utmost care and responsibility across all our services.
With Cleardox, we’ve built a secure “PDF engine” (you might call it) specifically for focused redaction, ensuring that errors can’t happen. Take a look at this "engine" of ours and the measures we've taken to uphold our high security standards.
Explore our multi-level security structure: Front-end to back-end - happens via a secure TLS connectionCustomer level encryption - ensures that each customer has their own protected domain in CleardoxDocument Level Encryption - Ensures that each document is protected with its own unique keyAutomatic deletion deadlines - all documents in Cleardox are automatically deleted after 30 days.A purely European setup - our security system complies with European standards.Essential IT certifications ensure your data’s safety: We also have all our security implementations documented in an ISAE 3000 Type II report, which everyone are more than welcome to review and download here.
👉 Learn more about our security structure at https://www.cleardox.io/security here
Warm regards,
The Cleardox team - Share with Intelligence 
