Ronald L. Mendell eBooks

Index This text identifies common pitfalls in document security and suggests remedies to prevent its occurrence. It strives to alert an audience of managers, security professionals, and workers who come in regular contact with sensitive information. Recognition of how sensitive documents can violate the principle of confidentiality is the primary focus of the book. Chapter 1 discusses metadata in documents. Paying attention to this issue can reduce unintentional release of sensitive information. Chapter 2 explores Web-facing documents and how search engines like Google can uncover sensitive data in....

Several electronic layers exist in the most documents, a fack overlooked by many writers. Probing these sublayers often reveals information non intended for release by the author. Documents in electronic formats create a "palimpsest" that even semiskilled investigators can probe for sensitive data. Palimpsest seems like an exotic work. But literally, it means "scraped again" from Greek word roots. In ancient and medieval Europe, writers often scraped off previous writing on a manyscript and wrote new text. (Writing media were in short supply and were expensive.) With modern forensic techniques like ultraviolet light and photography researchers uncover the original layer of writing. Using computer forensic techniques, thenty-first ...