System to Detect Data Leakage within Organisation

Volume 7 Issue 1 December - February 2018

Research Paper

System to Detect Data Leakage within Organisation

Deepika S.*, Mydhili K. Nair **

* PG Scholar, Department of Information Science & Engineering, Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India.

** Professor, Department of Information Science & Engineering, Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India.

Deepika, S., & Nair, M.K. (2018). System To Detect Data Leakage Within Organization. i-manager’s Journal on Information Technology, 7(1), 7-11. https://doi.org/10.26634/jit.7.1.14090

Abstract

In today's technological world, leakage of confidential data within an organisation is considered as a severe crime, and is one of the major security threats in the organisations. Sharing of confidential data should be secured such that, it should not be accessed by others and also the agents to whom all the confidential data has been provided should be tracked. This paper proposes a system to identify the guilty party who has leaked the confidential data which has been distributed by the owner of the data, within the organization. To distribute the data, a data allocation strategy has been proposed which will monitor with whom all the data has been shared. To provide security for the data object and to keep track of the data lineage of the distributed data, a watermarking technique is proposed. An encrypted secret key is used to watermark the confidential data, which will be unique for every agent.