topic Re: Document Level Security in Alfresco Archive

Document Level Security

sudipto — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:19:02 GMT

I am in the process of evaluating a content management solution at one of our large customers who is particularly keen on an open source solution. But at the same time security is also a concern: Here is what I am looking at. I need to store contents into the content management solution unencrypted

Re: Document Level Security

mrogers — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 23:33:26 GMT

There's no way that Alfresco (or any other electronic system for that matter) can control content once it is outside of Alfresco. Even if you only allow access to an encrypted copy (like you would do if you are using email as a transport - right? ) then your user needs the key at which point they would be able to distribute the secure content. Crude methods such as copy and paste of a screenshot would defeat any electronic countermeasures such as DRM. Or even printing a hard copy and sticking it in a brown envelope. :twisted:

That said by all means with Alfresco you could plug in your various transformations to do whatever you need to do, Alfresco already has the PDF transformers out of the box and I'm sure a watermark transformer would be fairly easy if it does not exist already and then you can use bog standard Alfresco security to control access to the transformed version. You could even bolt into Windows RMS if you want.

Re: Document Level Security

zaizi — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:29:30 GMT

Hi,

We've implemented such a solution for a UK public sector organisation. You are find the presentation on the Alfresco Content Community at http://share.alfresco.com/share/proxy/alfresco-feed/api/node/content/workspace/SpacesStore/ebbea36e-f545-42fe-8f1a-09fe38ec38e4/3.%20Case%20Study%20NLWA.pdf?a=true.

It is possible to extend it to use any third party solution to provide the security and rights protection. In this case, it just creates a water marker PDF with restrictions.

Ainga

Re: Document Level Security

cloud12 — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 07:28:46 GMT

Hi,

We've implemented such a solution for a UK public sector organisation. You are find the presentation on the Alfresco Content Community at http://share.alfresco.com/share/proxy/alfresco-feed/api/node/content/workspace/SpacesStore/ebbea36e-f545-42fe-8f1a-09fe38ec38e4/3.%20Case%20Study%20NLWA.pdf?a=true.

It is possible to extend it to use any third party solution to provide the security and rights protection. In this case, it just creates a water marker PDF with restrictions.

Ainga

How is document level security handled in Alfresco? I'm not able to access your link? Appreciate your response.

Re: Document Level Security

dk1 — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 19:28:12 GMT

Hi,

We've implemented such a solution for a UK public sector organisation. You are find the presentation on the Alfresco Content Community at http://share.alfresco.com/share/proxy/alfresco-feed/api/node/content/workspace/SpacesStore/ebbea36e-f545-42fe-8f1a-09fe38ec38e4/3.%20Case%20Study%20NLWA.pdf?a=true.

It is possible to extend it to use any third party solution to provide the security and rights protection. In this case, it just creates a water marker PDF with restrictions.

Ainga

Link is not available for most users… do you have another linking url??

Re: Document Level Security

komatineni — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 02:25:16 GMT

Under Case Studies.

http://www2.alfresco.com/l/1234/2010-11-08/OJ219/1234/101635/NL_Waste_Authority_CS.pdf