Patent ID: 8478824

Claim:
A method for classification and enforcement of security requirements to an existing information dissemination system, the method comprising the steps of: providing, to a user of said existing information dissemination system, a user interface for selecting security requirements for user classification of respective information to be distributed, wherein said user comprises a creator of said information to be distributed; accepting respective security requirements from said interface for enforcement in respect of dissemination of the corresponding information; modifying a definition of an existing message sensitivity field within a header definition of said information dissemination system such that the field within said header carries a classification tag, wherein said classification tag indicates said user classification of said information, said classification indicating information for legitimizing at a sending end prior to sending such that said sending is carried out only as legitimized, said information for legitimizing at a sending end comprising authorized recipients and a legitimate one of a group of sending methods, wherein said message sensitivity field is indicative of a sensitivity of said corresponding information; associating with said dissemination system an enforcement module embodied on a computer recordable medium, said module being operable to receive said security requirements via said classification tag, and enforcing said dissemination via said module in accordance with said classification tag, such that said information is disseminated to authorized recipients and blocked from other recipients.