Method and system to warn the user in the event of potential confidential document security violations

摘要

A method and system to warn the user in the event of potential confidential document security violations. The method includes using a computer, electronically embedding a digital marker in an electronic document to create a marked document; storing the document on a non-removable non-transitory computer readable medium of the computer; upon a request for transmission of the marked document from the computer or for copying the marked document to a removable non-transitory computer readable medium, determining that the marked document contains the digital marker and displaying a warning on a display unit of the computer of the request based on the marked document containing the digital marker; and allowing the transmission or the copying only upon approval of release of the marked document by a human user of the computer.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method for controlling release of electronic documents, comprising:
selecting an electronic document from a document database stored in a first memory location; selecting a digital marker from a marker database stored in a second memory location; using a processor, electronically embedding, said digital marker in said electronic document to generate a marked document; storing said marked document in said document database; upon receiving a request for transmission of a requested document from said document database to (i) an external device or the Internet, (ii) a removable non-transitory memory device or (iii) a printer determining whether said requested document is a marked document and based on said determining displaying a warning on a display device only if said requested document is a marked document; allowing said transmission of a requested document that is a marked document only upon approval of release of said requested marked document by a human user of said computer; and for each transmission of a requested document that is a marked document, recording in a transmitted marked document database stored in a third memory location at least a name of said requested document, the date and time of the release of said requested document, and to the external device or said removable non-transitory computer readable medium or printer to which said requested document was transmitted.