Employment Status Security Monitoring for Data Exfiltration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users leaving an employer may download proprietary, confidential, or sensitive information, posing a risk of data exfiltration through unauthorized file transfers.
Innovation Solution
A computer system and method that monitors user policies and security settings based on employment status, adjusting security settings to restrict data processing activities on electronic devices when a user's employment status changes, and employing a monitoring agent to alert administrators of potential data exfiltration attempts.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If security settings are dynamically adjusted based on employment status changes, then data protection is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts security settings based on real-time employment status changes. When a user's employment status changes (e.g., termination, resignation), the system automatically modifies their access permissions and security policies without requiring manual intervention, thereby improving data protection while managing complexity through automation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback mechanisms by continuously monitoring employment status changes and automatically responding with appropriate security policy adjustments. The system receives feedback from HR systems about status changes and feeds this information back into the security management system to trigger automatic policy updates, resolving the contradiction between reliability and complexity.
2Measurement precision
If automated monitoring of user activity is implemented, then detection of data exfiltration is improved, but processing time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-defining security policies and response protocols for various employment status changes. When a status change is detected, the system executes pre-configured actions immediately, reducing processing time while maintaining high detection accuracy through automated rule-based enforcement of security policies.
Data Source
AI summary
A method includes storing an employment status module associated with an entity and associating a plurality of employment statuses with respective security settings for a plurality of users associated with the entity, receiving information indicating a change in an employment status of a user of the plurality of users, determining a change to security settings for the user based on the change in the employment status of the user, applying the change to the security settings for the user in a security management system of the threat management facility, and restricting use of at least one data processing electronic device activity on an electronic device of the user based on the change to the security settings for the user.