Privilege systems – Who is what?
Building privilege systems for shared files in identity-less environments
A common question for security software designers is how to identify a user. This is especially important for “privilege system” designers, as the user identity determines what a user can, or cannot do within the system. In other words, unless the system knows who the user is, privileges cannot be applied...
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Imagine that you can add, move or remove licenses as you like, in real time
Something that has always been a big hassle for me as an experienced IT user and administrator is the management of user licenses. Questions like, "How many licenses do I have?" "Who has them?", and "Can I move the licenses to different users?" are very common in today’s IT environment. When we designed the Simple Encryption Platform, I didn’t want the users and administrators of Cryptzone’s solutions to have to worry about these things...
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One user, many computers and thousands of pieces of information on the network
Several years ago, Cryptzone visited a customer in New York which was a hospital that had a security concern. They knew that their employees used email to send confidential patient health information and they had to comply with HIPAA regulations. They knew they needed to send secured emails but they also had a special requirement but they had not yet found...
Read the full articleEnterprise Protection Method - EPM
The challenge – Document encryption for 50.000 users.
New regulations, new privacy laws and general awareness have increased the interest for information security. At the same time, modern organizations are challenged with enormous amounts of data created by its information workers. Tools like the Microsoft SharePoint® document management system help information workers to organize and access data and are today being evaluated or implemented by many organizations...
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Protecting corporate data at risk on USB flash drives.
Many times, I have heard our customers say that they trust their end users. But when an end user decides to leave the organization, the trust goes away and many IT administrators feel that they would like the ability to be able to lock down the end user access to the corporate data. Cryptzone offers the Secured eUSB solution that can encrypt any standard USB flash drive from any manufacturer, but that doesn’t solve the problem of employees refusing or "forgetting" to return the flash drive...
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