1. In Spirion, note the numbers located under the MATCH column for the PDF you are working on
2. Right click on the file name and click “Open file location”
3. Right click the file and select “Edit with Adobe Acrobat”
Note: If you don’t see “Edit with Adobe Acrobat”, please contact the Helpdesk and request Adobe Acrobat Pro be installed so you can redact a PDF file
4. In the top left, click Tools
5. Under Redact, click Add, then click Open
6. Click on the Redact icon in the right-hand toolbar
7. Highlight the confidential numbers of the match found in Spirion that you noted in step 1
8. Right-click the highlighted numbers and click “Apply Redactions”
9. Click OK
10. Adobe Acrobat will prompt you to save the sanitized document with “_Redacted” added to the end of the filename.
11. If this file doesn’t contain any other Spirion matches, go ahead and save the file. If it does contain other matches, click Cancel and repeat the redaction process on other matches.
12. After you save the PDF document, close Adobe Acrobat. Verify within the original file location you now see the new “_Redacted” version of the file you just saved.
13. Go back into Spirion
14. Select the PDF document you just redacted
15. Click Shred to securely delete the document
16. To access your redacted document, you can open the newly saved document with the “_Redacted” name.
Cornell SC Johnson College of Business Helpdesk – itrequests@business.cornell.edu – 607-255-6300