Re: secure file and prevent printing and saving?

["Joel L. Rosenblatt" <joel () COLUMBIA EDU>]

The problem with this is that a cell phone makes a very nice, readable
copy of anything that you can display on your screen - if the idea is
that he want's to control all copies of the data, he is really out of
luck

My 2 cents
Joel


Joel Rosenblatt, Director Network & Computer Security
Columbia Information Security Office (CISO)
Columbia University, 612 W 115th Street, NY, NY 10025 / 212 854 3033
http://www.columbia.edu/~joel
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On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Russ Leathe <Russ.Leathe () gordon edu> wrote:
> Our President wants to send a file to all fac/staff that will prevent them
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> In otherwords, a true read-only.
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> What have you used for this?
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> Thanks Again
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> From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv
> [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Will Froning
> Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2013 12:50 AM
> To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
> Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Login/Logoff Activity
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> On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 9:32 AM, Will Froning <will.froning () gmail com>
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> I'm wondering if any of your institutions monitor logon/logoff time for
> attendance/holiday/sick leave violations. I'm not looking for a technical
> answer, just whether or not your schools do this.
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> I'm trying to bring some support documents to the table so we can make an
> educated decision on if it's something we want to pursue. My feeling is that
> this is VERY unusual for HigherED, but links to policies or an email (with a
> yes/no) would be much appreciated.
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> If you like I can compile my responses (anonymously) and repost to the list
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> This is just a followup to my original mail. All replies, save one, were
> posted to the list. They were unanimously "no". Since there aren't any "best
> practices" or obvious evidence of other schools doing this, the internal
> auditor has thankfully withdrawn his request.
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> To followup on the technical portion. If we were forced into doing this, I
> was going to suggest something like <http://www.authenware.com/> as one
> piece of the puzzle. That plus some network analysis and mobile device
> tracking would hopefully give us at least an understanding if they even came
> on campus.
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