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Security of Files
Home ; Networked Security ; Encryption ; Zipped Encryption ; Microsoft Word ; Microsoft Excel
Introduction
From time to time I get asked about security, especially on what we might call a small scale.
As an example, you might be the CFO of a mid-sized form charged with maintaining documents about salary reviews, shares issues, bonuses and the like.
This involves you with a half dozen word processing documents, a couple of spreadsheet workbooks, and a mission-critical presentation.
In the next few pages I’ll give you an overview of the options as I see them, always with the view that “I help senior executives see and obtain the rewards from existing resources by smart application of current technologies.”
There’s no bleeding-edge technology here; you already have licensed copies all the software you need, or else it is available legally as a free download from the world wide web.
Believe it or not, I get asked two questions: “What sort of a car should I buy?” and ‘How should I protect my document?”. In both cases my answer starts with a question:
“What do you plan to use the car for?” and “What are you protecting, and against who?”.
General Considerations
I can’t answer these questions for you, but you can answer them for yourselves.
(1) Is the document mobile?
(2) Is the document part of a set of confidential documents?
(3) Are you the only one who needs to see it, or is there a team of viewers?
(4) If your security was cracked by a competitor, would that affect your business?
(5) If someone within your company cracked your security, would that affect your business?
(6) Are you willing to offer a prize to anyone who can break your security, as a means of testing your security?
And so on.
With these in mind let’s look at some of the possibilities. All the usual caveats apply, use at your own risk (but there’s no real risk), seek additional advice (I’m always right, but you don’t have to take my word for it), …
Each of these considerations warrants its own page in this web set..
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Toronto and Mississauga, Wednesday, August 03, 2011 3:58 PM
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