Patent ID: 8607325

Claim:
A method, comprising: receiving, by a node in an enterprise network, at least one of a request to send a selected communication and/or content to a nonsubscriber and provide the nonsubscriber with access to the selected communication and/or content, the selected communication and/or content comprising sensitive information to an enterprise corresponding to the enterprise network; determining, by the node, that the nonsubscriber is a member of a trusted group, the trusted group comprising, as members, at least one subscriber and at least one nonsubscriber and each member of the trusted group being trusted by the enterprise; and in response to the nonsubscriber being a member of the trusted group, the node at least one of sending the selected communication and/or content and providing the nonsubscriber access to the selected communication and/or content, wherein the trusted group is no longer recognized after at least one of (a) occurrence of a predetermined event adversely impacting a degree of trust between the enterprise and nonsubscriber and (b) passage of a determined period of time, and wherein at least one of the following is true: at least one of the subscriber and nonsubscriber is a member of multiple trusted groups recognized by the enterprise network and wherein at least two of the trusted groups have differing levels of authorization to access differing bodies of enterprise sensitive information; and a policy measure is implemented, wherein the policy measure comprises at least one of: preventing the subscriber from selecting, by dragging and dropping, selected content from the selected communication and/or content into a communication; setting a hop restriction on the selected communication and/or content whereby, when the hop restriction is met or exceeded and/or a hop counter is incremented or decremented to a selected value, the selected communication and/or content is dropped or otherwise prohibited from delivery to an intended recipient; and tearing down a communication channel before transmission of the selected communication and/or content.