Method for secure servers to visually indicate potential confidential conflicts (04-Nov-2009)

Method for secure servers to visually indicate potential confidential conflicts

When a person is brought up in the internal company directory, most of the time the person's roles and responsibilities are listed. But often a person has more than one job. Many times the other jobs may be of a confidential nature. There is not a current method to determine through the directory if this person can be of help with a confidential problem. There is not a way to tell if the person in the directory is cleared to discuss this confidential project.

Let's make up three fictitious projects:
A) Filesystems storage
B) Big Orange Overview (BOO)
C) Double Secret Technology (DST)

Let's say the filesystem storage role is a non-Confidential program, however BOO and DSP are highly confidential. How would a person find someone to assist with a question on file systems related to the BOO projects in the company directory database? When performing the search, the database program does a check on the data provided under the job description of the person performing the search and the information of company employees in the directory. The search is in a secure mode the person found information is private. For example, the person found has the following in the job descriptions:
A) Filesystem storage
B) Small Obscure Program (SOP)
C) Device drivers
D) Big Orange Overview (BOO)

Cross reference the roles from the person performing the search and the person found then DST and SOP projects are confidential and not to be discussed. The company's directory server starts...