Protecting important company documents is an essential task. Today, companies invest more every year in protecting their information by trying to avoid what is known as data leak protection (Data Leaks Protectiono or DLP). However, 80 % of companies are still victims of this problem. It is not difficult for a document once in the hands of an authorised user to be copied with the best intention to other means that allow its easy distribution so that its protection of use is exceeded and the essential data of that company at risk of falling into the wrong hands. In addition, an authorised user is not the same as a trusted user. In most cases, organisations are victims of their own employees who, when changing companies, take confidential information or intentionally share it with people outside the organisation for personal interests. This is the biggest problem with which data leak protection mechanisms are intended to fight. This is highlighted in the basis of the patent EP2709333 (from ALCATEL-LUCENT) on which this project is supported. Authorised users are the main cause of data leaks, so perimeter security systems become useless when it is the authorised user who shares the information or takes it to the competition when changing jobs. This project will respond to the need to protect government, business or private documents with mechanisms that depend on the document itself and not the validation only of the user, that once authorised can easily remove the document and the necessary certificates outside the environment for which they were generated, leaving the document unprotected. Once that level of protection is established it is the document that defends itself through a multiplicity of verifications. The document created in this way cannot be opened if certain conditions are not met. In order for the operation to be fully transparent, a fundamental objective of this project is to build the protection tool integrated into the filesystem itself, so that all created files can be protected by default. Verifications such as being connected to the intranet or having a company-specific computer would be configured using an installable tool on the operating system. The most interesting use cases of this system, would be: Those laptops that contain confidential information from organisations that may be victims of industrial espionage. Business users who protect confidential commercial/industrial documents, as employees may be authorised but not necessarily reliable. Drones and other machines with autonomous motion capability that can be hijacked and shot down and contain confidential recorded information (videos, thermographic images, communications, etc.). The filesystem that auto-protects by default all documents takes its name from this use case: Drone-FS would allow the use of drones in activities involving the collection, recording and transport of private and confidential data, in a safe and anti-abduction way. The drones to which the project is focused are those intended for security applications such as: Inspections and civil defence. This project has a duration of two and a half years and will be carried out in a consortium composed of: Alcatel-LUCENT ESPAÑA S.A.U (Great company), INNOVATI SERVICIOS TECNOLÓGICOS S.L. (SME), the UNIVERSITY POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID and TECNALIA (Technological Research Center). All these entities have a wide and diverse experience in the communications sector, which will ensure success in the research and development activities that each one must carry out.
