Patent ID: 8176060

Claim:
A media registration system comprising: a memory having computer executable instructions stored thereon; a processor that executes the computer executable instructions stored on the memory to implement the following components: a media registration component that collects information regarding at least one media shipment, wherein the shipment comprises a portable electronic media article shipped via a physical mailing service shipment; a report generation component that establishes at least one report based in part on the information collected; and an analysis component that employs a plurality of risk drivers that analyze at least one of the at least one report or the information collected to at least one of calculate risk or measure accountability as a function of sensitive data included within the at least one media shipment, wherein the plurality of risk drivers comprises data classification, data criticality, number of customer records per unit, number of units shipping, frequency of shipment, carrier track record or receiver track record, wherein the sensitive information comprises at least one of credit card details, bank account information, employee records, usernames, passwords or social security numbers.