This one time, at band camp, Ricky wrote: > - first, you classify data Eg.engineering.doc is commercially sensitive or > customer_creditcard.xls is personal privacy > - setup rules in your DLP, likely to be an appliance box sitting behind the > firewall > - stops data from going out the LAN > > sort of like an application aware firewall, but instead of look at ports, ip > addresses....etc it looks for the classification of the data (doc, xls, pdf, > email, IM....etc)
Short of full-blown integrated-at-the-core-of-client-OS-and-BIOS DRM (see Trusted Computing), I don't see how this wouldn't be trivial to get around with SSL or similar. But I see what you're getting at and, no, still never heard of it 8) -- Rev Simon Rumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because nerds travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. - Simone Weil -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
