Preventing information leakage between collaborating organisations

  • Authors:
  • Muntaha Alawneh;Imad M. Abbadi

  • Affiliations:
  • University of London, Surrey, UK;Associated Newspapers, London, UK

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Electronic commerce
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Information sharing and protection against leakage is a critical problem especially for organisations having sensitive information. Sharing content between individuals in the same organisation extends to exchanging and sharing content between collaborating organisations. In this paper we propose a novel solution for preventing shared information between collaborating organisations from getting leaked to unauthorised users inside the distination organisation or out side it. In addition, once the content is in the hands of authorised users our solution prevents unethical authorised users from leaking such content to other users in the same organisation or third parties. In this paper we provide a mechanism for a source organisation to send content to another collaborating organisation in such a way the sent content is either accessed by a specific group of users performing a specific task or it could be accessed by all devices member in the destination organisation, which should be based on organisation policy and requirements. In the proposed solution we used trusted computing technology to provide a hardware-based root of trust for the master controller and organisation devices.