High Performance Computing for Corporate IP Protection
Tuesday 5 June 2007
The Department's recently acquired High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster is being used to analyse the Enron email corpus to discover how to prevent leakage of company secrets. Company employees can, quite inadvertently, propagate company secrets around the world in just a few seconds by email.
Lee Gillam, one of the Department's senior research fellows, is reported in The Register discussing the use of HPC for statistical analysis of the Enron corpus. The work is being undertaken in collaboration with Neil Cooke, part-time PhD student in CCSR at Surrey. The first results will be presented in a paper on protecting intellectual property at the Information Assurance and Security Symposium in Manchester at the end of August.