On Tuesday 12 February 2008 08:07:39 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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)
The whole concept is an utter myth. I zip my data or bzip it or bzip2 it or steg it into a harmless picture or encrupt it As I said, an utter myth James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
