Information protection via environmental data tethers

Matt Beaumont-Gay, Kevin Eustice, Peter Reiher
2008 Proceedings of the 2007 Workshop on New Security Paradigms - NSPW '07  
Faced with an increasing number of incidents involving leaks of confidential data, it is clear that new data protection strategies are needed. We propose Data Tethers, a new paradigm which uses policies based on environmental factors to determine when sensitive data may be stored on a machine and when it must be encrypted or removed from the machine entirely. We discuss a number of example scenarios where existing data protection systems provide insufficient protection and Data Tethers would
more » ... vent data exposure. We also discuss a proposed implementation of Data Tethers, including a number of different environmental inputs.
doi:10.1145/1600176.1600188 dblp:conf/nspw/Beaumont-GayER07 fatcat:nm7uddny5nfpljh3wiudi6jawa