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Method for providing customized and automated security assistance, a document marking regime, and central tracking and control for sensitive or classified documents in electronic format

  • US 7,958,147 B1
  • Filed: 09/13/2006
  • Issued: 06/07/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/13/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer implemented method comprising of a computer containing a CPU and computer readable electronic storage media with the CPU processing computer usable instructions encoded on the electronic storage media to provide a central service that performs in congruity with a user computer desktop tool, operating on a computer on a network controlled by said central service, to establish a client server relationship to support and control a computer desktop tool by means of said central service providing the requirements of a controlling national security and sensitive information classification and marking regime to automate the assessment, classification and marking process for information contained in electronic documents generated, revised, edited or changed by users of host document development applications and marking said electronic documents in accordance with the national security and sensitive information classification determination and marking elements of said controlling national security and/or sensitive information classification and marking regime of said central service on a computer network further comprising:

  • reliably associating national security or sensitive information classification guides and security instructions with each element of the national security or sensitive information classification regime, providing version control in event of changes and modifications of the guidance, reliably making the guidance available to a client classification tool in an electronic environment in accordance with a user access profile and assuring proper identification of the version of classification guidance used for classifying individual electronic documents and properly associating with the electronic document;

    identifying generating and assigning a unique code such as a Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) or a Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) for representing each element of the national security or sensitive information classification regime, each electronic document resident on the network, each authorized network User each individual computer on or comprising the network, each classification guide or security instruction every document storage media/volume device existing on the network, as well as the network and capturing the codes and the assignments in a relational database matrix, and monitoring the network for new, modified and removed elements that require code assignments or adjustments and automatically providing or adjusting, and registering the additional unique code identification assignments into the matrix as appropriate;

    setting up classification access authorization templates and assigning national security or sensitive information classification regime access profiles to each authorized user or group of users on the network, profiles that entail the full classification regime or a subset of the regime elements and positively and reliably controlling user access profiles across the network(s) for individual users or groups of users for client document classification tool control and control of electronic documents in an electronic environment;

    enabling network administrators or network security administrators to select and establish criteria upon which to base warnings or alerts regarding electronic documents or related user initiated network activity that may be indicative of possible compromise or insecure user handling or miss-classification of electronic documents/information resident on the network;

    designing, establishing, implementing, modifying and managing a unique system for a network high classification mark for the national security or sensitive information document classification regime for a computer network to be automatically and dynamically applied to electronic documents, and resultant printed hard copy formats of an electronic document, when electronic documents are in design, draft or otherwise not completely or finally classified in accordance with established national security or sensitive information classification regime to ensure user awareness of the potential classification value of un-assessed or not-classified information and the associated security handling and control necessary to assure appropriate handling electronically and physically of the information contained therein until proper classification of the electronic document/information is complete;

    designing establishing, implementing, modifying and managing visible appearance of all classification document marks, in association with the national security or sensitive information classification regime, for and within electronic documents and resultant printed hard copy forms or output of an electronic document, with respect to position, font, color, style, textual content of the full mark and abbreviations for the full classification mark, portion marks, default classification marks, the overall electronic document file classification marks and classification block to provide document classification marking consistency for electronic documents on a network or domain of networks;

    automatically and dynamically identifying, capturing and recording the status and state of electronic documents in accordance with an established network national security or sensitive information document classification regime for an electronic environment regarding Legacy electronic documents, Foreign electronic documents Foreign Legacy, Opt-Out, Opt-In, Active, In-Active, Valid, and Invalid document classification and assignment and embedding of an associated unique status identification code;

    reliably and automatically updating client electronic classification tools from an electronic classification regime established for a network to assure classification marking regime consistency to include mark format, user access profiles and administrative settings for the client electronic document classification and marking tool for each user of the network.

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