Preventing Conflicts of Interests Between Two or More Groups Using Applications

摘要

To prevent conflicts of interest, an information management system is used to make sure two or more groups are kept apart so that information does not circulate freely between these groups. The system has policies to implement an “ethical wall” to separate users or groups of users. The user or groups of user may be organized in any arbitrary way, and may be in the same organization or different organizations. The two groups (or two or more users) will not be able to access information belonging to the other, and users in one group may not be able to pass information to the other group. The system may manage access to documents, e-mail, files, and other forms of information.

主权项

1. A method of managing information comprising:
providing an organization comprising a first group and a second group, wherein the organization has an information management system comprising a policy server comprising one or more rules to manage information of the organization; within the first group of the organization, providing a first user and a first application program managed by the information management system; when the first user uses the first application program to connect to a second user, seeking approval from the policy server; if approved, permitting the first user to use the first application program to connect to the second user; and if not approved, blocking the first user from using the first application program to connect to the second user.