Title :
IP protection: Detecting Email based breaches of confidence
Author :
Cooke, Neil ; Gillam, Lee ; Kondoz, Ahmet
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Surrey, Guildford
Abstract :
In this paper we discuss the ease with which email can be used to breach confidence by the propagation of corporate secrets and intelligence, and propose an intelligent filtering system for outgoing emails aimed at preventing disclosures. We report on a number of experiments undertaken with a corpus of over half a million Enron emails and the use of a variety of techniques from the field of Corpus Linguistics for reducing the number of false alarms produced by naive keyword filtering systems, and discuss the results in detail. We also give due consideration to the danger of missing messages that should have been prevented from propagation.
Keywords :
electronic mail; industrial property; security of data; Enron emails; IP protection; corporate secrets; corpus linguistics; email based breaches detection; false alarms; intelligent filtering system; naive keyword filtering systems; Information filtering; Information filters; Information security; Intellectual property; Intelligent systems; Knowledge management; Law; Legal factors; Protection; Text analysis; Intellectual property; breach of confidence; outgoing email filters; text analysis;
Conference_Titel :
Information Assurance and Security, 2007. IAS 2007. Third International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Manchester
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2876-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-2876-2
DOI :
10.1109/IAS.2007.24
