Re: security products

[Francesc Vila <francesc.vila () gmail com>]

Juan Pablo Macias wrote:
> Hi everybody.
>
> A friend asked for my advice, so now i ask the experts. He has a
> windows network with many shared excel files. Some of them have
> sensitive information, information about his clients, but all of them
> are required to be shared. Each share is password protected. He is
> worried that, for example, one of his employees takes an important
> file from the shared network and sells it.
>
> Is there a way, in this scenario, to control who can access what? or
> to avoid copying files away from the shared pc, or to allow to make
> changes, but not to copy the file to another location? A possible
> solution would be to password protect or encrypt the files, but i
> don't think it would be be feasible it talking about some hundred
> files. Is there software that already takes care or this?
>
> In the long term, my suggestion would be to put all excel files into a
> formal database and implement access control there, maybe even a web
> application.
>
> What are your suggestions?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Juan Pablo
>
>   
Hi Juan Pablo,

For what I know, if the files are in a CIFS volume, you can put 
permissions in each file/folder of which users/groups can access to them.

Regards,

Francesc