Secure Your Microsoft Office Documents
Every time a document is created in Microsoft Office, hidden information about that document is tracked automatically. This information can include server names, email addresses, previous edits, comments, author's names plus much more. This content represents a security risk, and could be misconstrued or cause great embarrassment if seen by unintended viewers. Even worse, the information can reveal a map to your corporate network and be used for outside-in malicious attacks.
Recent White House, Pentagon and Mutual Fund information leaks are real, and these are simply the stories that make headlines.
Recent Content Security Breaches Include:
- An apparent split within the UK government over new hard-line anti-terror laws was revealed in hidden comments in a Word Document
- A "nonpartisan" Social Security document had edits from a (Republican) White House staffer before submittal. Democrats and unions cry foul.
- A mutual fund firm inadvertently disclosed confidential shareholder information in a PDF-formatted public filing. Shareholders are filing data privacy lawsuits.
- The Pentagon revealed classified information in a PDF (Portable Document Format) about an Italian secret service agent's death in Iraq.
- A document with a list of HIV patients was attached to a public health department e-mail. HIPAA enforcers are investigating the breach in personal data privacy and security.
How Can Workshare Protect Help?
Workshare Protect provides complete document protection against privacy and other content security risks, and automatically enforces your content security policy. It secures Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint documents and removes hidden information (metadata) automatically before you email.
- Automatically remove hidden information in your documents
- Enforce document security policies
- Secure every email attachment automatically
- Create secure PDF's on all Office file formats
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