Persistent Security for Electronic Documents

Abstract

Organization must take significant investment to protect the electronic
documents that contain mission-critical, personal, and sensitive information.
Many information security solutions attempt to protect electronic documents
only on their storage location or during transmission. The purpose of this paper
is intended to provide the reader with a brief overview of relevant document
security issues and technologies as well as to introduce a proposed method for
persistent security for electronic document throughout its lifecycle.
Several security requirements such as confidentially, authorization,
accountability, integrity, authenticity, and non-repudiation must be met to
provide more effective protection for electronic document throughout its
lifecycle. These requirements can be achieved by using the followings:
a) Document Control process: which can be achieved confidentially,
authorization, and accountability by using encryption technique.
b) Digital signature technique: which can be achieved integrity, authenticity,
and non-repudiation by using secure hash algorithm-1(SHA-1) and
encryption technique.