Confidential Business Documents
Help trace unauthorized distribution of reports, proposals and internal documents.
Solution · Information protection
Know where leaked information came from.
Traditional access controls help protect information before it leaves an organization. Digital Innovators' leak attribution solutions add another layer of protection by enabling distributed content to carry recipient-specific identifiers that can assist with tracing the source of unauthorized disclosure.
Complementary to cybersecurity and DLP.
Some confidential information legitimately needs to leave the security perimeter. Once authorized information is distributed, traditional access controls may no longer provide sufficient visibility into where an unauthorized copy originated.
Digital Innovators addresses this through recipient-specific attribution. The intent is not to replace identity, DLP or access control — it is to provide attribution evidence after authorized distribution.
Capabilities
- Recipient-specific document attribution
- Invisible digital watermarking
- Robust image watermarking
- Document fingerprinting
- Distribution tracking
- Leak-source identification
- Forensic extraction and analysis
- Automated protected-document generation
- Integration with document workflows
- API-based attribution services
How it works
Four steps from identity to evidence.
01
Identify
Assign a unique identity or distribution reference to each authorized recipient or transaction.
02
Embed
Embed recipient-specific attribution information into distributed content using techniques appropriate to the document or media type.
03
Distribute
Deliver individualized versions through controlled business workflows without materially changing the normal authorized user experience.
04
Attribute
If content is discovered outside its authorized environment, analyze the available copy for embedded attribution information that may help identify its distribution source.
Architecture
From source document to attribution signal.
Source Document
Attribution Engine
Recipient A → Version A
Recipient B → Version B
Recipient C → Version C
External Copy Discovered
Forensic Analysis
Attribution Signal
Implementations may assist with identifying the source of an unauthorized copy by recovering recipient-specific attribution information from the available material. They are designed to remain detectable under supported transformations — not presented as impossible to defeat.
Underlying technology
Implementations may combine several techniques, selected according to the document or media type and the distribution workflow. The description below is architectural, not an implementation guide.
- Digital watermarking
- Invisible identifiers
- Document fingerprinting
- Image-domain watermarking
- Computer vision
- Signal processing
- Recipient-specific content variation
- Secure attribution databases
- Automated forensic analysis
Use cases
Professional Services
Protect sensitive client deliverables and controlled information distributed to multiple parties.
Education & Research
Attribute individually distributed reports, research and proprietary datasets.
Corporate Communications
Add attribution to sensitive presentations, strategy documents and internal materials.
Controlled Data Distribution
Generate uniquely attributable versions of information for different recipients.
Protect the information that has to leave your perimeter.
Digital Innovators can design attribution into document and information-distribution workflows without fundamentally changing how authorized users access information.