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how to protect confidential document Victor Valacco 08-28-2007
Posted by Victor Valacco on August 28, 2007, 2:40 am
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I am working for an auditing Business
The doc is actually an auditing process manual. It's a
600+ page manual of procedures that has "proprietary and
confidential" wording on every page. Our customer recently posted an
RFP for the contract we're working on, which ends in a year. There's
a fear in upper management that this document maybe forwarded to
potential competitors. Over 150 users need to view this document daily
for processing purposes, so they want to put some type of security
control in place.

I was thinking we put it on an internal webserver, where users have to check a
disclaimer before they get to the actual
document.
Of course that doesn't prevent them from copy/paste the thing.but at least they
know of the importance of this document.

What ways are there to prevent them from copying the whole doc.
I am not talking about computer savvy people, just the "regular" office users.

any suggestions?

VV

Posted by Moe Trin on August 28, 2007, 3:26 pm
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On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.security.misc, in article

>The doc is actually an auditing process manual. It's a
>600+ page manual of procedures that has "proprietary and
>confidential" wording on every page. Our customer recently posted an
>RFP for the contract we're working on, which ends in a year. There's
>a fear in upper management that this document maybe forwarded to
>potential competitors. Over 150 users need to view this document daily
>for processing purposes, so they want to put some type of security
>control in place.

Contact the companies legal advisor, and follow the instructions that
person provides. There isn't a technical solution to a _legal_ problem.

>What ways are there to prevent them from copying the whole doc.

Don't let them see it.

Old guy

Posted by Barry Margolin on August 28, 2007, 11:40 pm
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> I am working for an auditing Business
> The doc is actually an auditing process manual. It's a
> 600+ page manual of procedures that has "proprietary and
> confidential" wording on every page. Our customer recently posted an
> RFP for the contract we're working on, which ends in a year. There's
> a fear in upper management that this document maybe forwarded to
> potential competitors. Over 150 users need to view this document daily
> for processing purposes, so they want to put some type of security
> control in place.
>
> I was thinking we put it on an internal webserver, where users have to check
> a disclaimer before they get to the actual
> document.
> Of course that doesn't prevent them from copy/paste the thing.but at least
> they know of the importance of this document.
>
> What ways are there to prevent them from copying the whole doc.
> I am not talking about computer savvy people, just the "regular" office
> users.
>
> any suggestions?

If "proprietary and confidential" on every page doesn't get the idea
across, I doubt anything else will do better.

--
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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