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Re: secure file and prevent printing and saving?
From: "Santabarbara, Angelo" <asantabarbara () SIENA EDU>
Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 11:35:58 -0400
Careful relying on Adobe PDF restrictions as there are many third party ways of bypassing those restrictions. There's really no easy way to prevent screen captures. One program called CopySafe purports to do what you want although I have no experience with it. Angelo D. Santabarbara Director of Networks & Systems Siena College 518-782-6996 ASantabarbara () siena edu ***Siena ITS staff will NEVER ask for your password or other confidential information via email.*** CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you received this e-mail and are not the intended recipient, please inform the sender by e-mail reply and destroy all copies of the original message. On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Maloney, Michael <mmaloney () middlesexcc edu>wrote:
Some sort of Digital Rights Management comes to mind. **** ** ** However, nothing prevents a end user from using a screen capture utility or a CTRL-A, CTRL-C to Word document.**** ** ** ** ** ** ** *From:* The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] *On Behalf Of *Russ Leathe *Sent:* Monday, May 06, 2013 11:12 AM *To:* SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU *Subject:* [SECURITY] secure file and prevent printing and saving?**** ** ** Our President wants to send a file to all fac/staff that will prevent them from downloading, printing, saving the file.**** ** ** In otherwords, a true read-only.**** ** ** What have you used for this?**** ** ** Thanks Again**** ** ** Russ**** ** ** ** ** ** ** *From:* The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [ mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU <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**** ** ** Hello All,**** ** ** ** ** On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 9:32 AM, Will Froning <will.froning () gmail com> wrote:**** Hello All,**** ** ** 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. **** ** ** 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.**** ** ** If you like I can compile my responses (anonymously) and repost to the list if there's any interest.**** **** 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.**** ** ** 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.**** ** ** Thanks,**** Will**** ** ** ** ** -- Will Froning Unix SysAdmin Will.Froning () GMail com MSN: wfroning () angui sh YIM: will_froning AIM: willfroning ****
Current thread:
- secure file and prevent printing and saving? Russ Leathe (May 06)
- Re: secure file and prevent printing and saving? Joel L. Rosenblatt (May 06)
- Re: secure file and prevent printing and saving? Justin Bennett (May 06)
- Re: secure file and prevent printing and saving? Maloney, Michael (May 06)
- Re: secure file and prevent printing and saving? Scherck, Daniel (May 06)
- Re: secure file and prevent printing and saving? Santabarbara, Angelo (May 06)
- Re: secure file and prevent printing and saving? Valdis Kletnieks (May 06)
- Re: secure file and prevent printing and saving? Hall, Rand (May 07)