2013 Symposium Posters

Project Members
Rohit Ranchal, Bharat Bhargava

Modern enterprises operate in a global economy with their operations dispersed across internal processes and external partners. A partner can be a sub-contractor to whom work is outsourced. Enterprises collaborate with their partners through Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) systems for producing and delivering products and services to consumers. Each partner in a PLM system uses data, generates data and shares data with other partners, and all this collaboration contributes to producing and delivering the products or services. Shared data may contain highly sensitive information such as trade secrets, intellectual property, private organizational or personal information. In large enterprise systems, it is difficult to understand and track data dissemination. The main security challenge in PLM is the unauthorized disclosure and data leakage of information shared among the partners. Existing approaches ensure security within the domain of an organization and don't address protection in a decentralized environment. We propose an approach for secure data dissemination using the Active Bundle scheme. This approach enables organizations to securely share information in their PLM steps and have control over its interaction in external domains.