An Information Architecture for Preventing and Tracing Information Leakage in the Age of Micro Devices

摘要

Micro devices, such as high-quality camera and voice recorder module, are becoming essential part of future computer systems in Google Glass, Apple's iWatch, Samsung's WatchPhone, Olympus's MEG 4.0, Baidu's Baidu Eye, and others. In addition, separate products of tiny devices, micro camera or digital voice recorders are already in the market for sale. Wide-spread use of micro devices, whether in smart phones or separate modules, has brought serious issue of internal information leakage problem. Especially, 'smart work' computing environment in which each employee collaborate with other people through mobile devices, out of office will lead to serious security holes in future business. In this paper addressed is a new information security architecture for information leakage prevention. In this paper, discussed are new ways of information protection technologies which utilizes E-DRM for prevention, and watermark technologies for tracing. Watermark technologies have been employed in copyright protection area to trace illegal copy and distribution in the cyber space. We applied those watermark technologies to tracing information leakage at private organizations and government agencies who are trying to protect sensitive information.