ZEN INFORMATION
Integrated Information Governance
InfoSec and RM working together for safer sharing.
This article aims to generate discussion about strategies to improve information security and information sharing. It considers mechanisms to support people handling sensitive information (recognising the human factor as a key vulnerability in security programs); leveraging existing systems and frameworks to enhance interoperability; and encouraging knowledge sharing between IG professionals across different domains.
Now in its third iteration, the Email Protective Marking Standard (EPMS) is an Australian innovation to identify the sensitivity of content shared by email. It was through conversations with some of the co-authors of the original EPMS that the concept for this paper was formed[i]. As a technical specification recognised by diverse vendors, EPMS enables non-proprietary information exchange. A similar open standard for documents seems long overdue.
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SUMMARY
Both national security and crisis management require highly sensitive information to be securely shared between applications, individuals, organisations and jurisdictions. Automation can support people sharing sensitive documents…
