Showing posts with label protective marking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label protective marking. Show all posts

Tuesday, 24 November 2009

Googling for Protectively Marked PDF's

The number of protectively marked PDF's on the web is staggering, try these:

Try other protective markings from other countries to see more. Clearly searching for "Top Secret" will incur a lot of separating chaff from wheat. The biggest surprise is the number of government protectively marked papers that are searchable - these are typically papers that are being passed between departments and the paper is being mis handled down the line of recipients.

I've seen a lot of misuse of confidentially marked papers in commercial organisations - I see them regularly sitting on a printer in open plan offices. Largely because staff working for big financial companies do not have information security drilled into them. They have to sit computer based training tests regularly - but there is little comeback for employees who regularly flout the rules.