Preventing users from uploading a file

Uberwilhelm · Post by **Uberwilhelm** » Wed Jul 07, 2010 1:07 pm

Howdy everyone.

Does anyone know of a way to prevent users from uploading files from a network folder to the internet either with IE or Firefox? I have a folder I need people to still have access to but want to prevent any files from being copied or uploaded to the internet. Thank you.

akbarri · Post by **akbarri** » Thu Jul 08, 2010 1:00 am

wow, that one is very hard!

anyway, in my workplace we do like this!
1. every important files was footer marked
- CONFIDENTIAL : GREEN > allow COPY & SHARE (INTERNAL/EXTERNAL)
- CONFIDENTIAL : YELLOW > allow INTERNAL COPY & SHARE but dont SHARE it to EXTERNAL
- CONFIDENTIAL : RED > dont COPY & SHARE (READ Only)
2. we implement "TRUST" to every employee
3. make a RULEz, u BREAK it - get BANNED (we can see every uploaded/downloaded files from Network Monitor Log)

Uberwilhelm · Post by **Uberwilhelm** » Thu Jul 08, 2010 7:42 am

akbarri wrote:wow, that one is very hard!

anyway, in my workplace we do like this!
1. every important files was footer marked
- CONFIDENTIAL : GREEN > allow COPY & SHARE (INTERNAL/EXTERNAL)
- CONFIDENTIAL : YELLOW > allow INTERNAL COPY & SHARE but dont SHARE it to EXTERNAL
- CONFIDENTIAL : RED > dont COPY & SHARE (READ Only)
2. we implement "TRUST" to every employee
3. make a RULEz, u BREAK it - get BANNED (we can see every uploaded/downloaded files from Network Monitor Log)

I thought about that but hoped there would be an easier way. What do you use for network monitoring?