Protecting What Matters Most: AnySecura’s Watermarking & Document Tracing Solution for Enterprise Security
In today’s digital era, electronic documents have become the primary carriers of core enterprise information, circulating faster and wider than ever before. However, alongside this convenience comes the shadow of data leakage risks. Printing and distributing, photographing screens, or sending files via instant messaging are all covert and hard-to-trace behaviors. Once a leak occurs, enterprises may face severe consequences such as exposure of critical data and significant loss of commercial interests.
How to establish a “security red line” for document circulation and implement full-chain traceability auditing—from creation to dissemination—has become a central challenge in enterprise information security defense.
To address this, AnySecura has introduced its Watermarking & Document Tracing solution. Guided by the principles of deterrence before the incident, tracking during the incident, and precise traceability after the incident, it leverages multi-dimensional watermarking technologies and all-scenario circulation records. The result is a comprehensive protective shield that makes document flow transparent and controllable, and leakage risks traceable and accountable.
Watermark Technology: The “First Line of Defense” for Information Protection
For the full lifecycle management of core enterprise documents, AnySecura adopts diverse and flexible watermarking strategies to curb leakage risks from the very source.
- Explicit Watermarks: Visible Deterrents Against Leaks
- Invisible Watermarks: The Hidden “Digital ID”
- Dynamic Watermarks: Capturing External Transmission in Real Time
- Flexible Watermark Strategies: Tailored to Multiple Scenarios
Embedded, visible watermarks clearly mark a document’s confidentiality level and ownership information. More importantly, they act as a strong deterrent against leaks via photography or screenshots, constantly reminding users of their confidentiality obligations and reducing the likelihood of leaks from a psychological perspective.
Hidden within documents or images, invisible watermarks function like digital fingerprints. They remain undetected during file circulation, but once a leak occurs, enterprises can extract them with specialized tools to pinpoint the source. This provides crucial evidence for tracing the leakage path.
At key points of document circulation, the system automatically inserts watermarks. For example, when a critical file is decrypted, copied to external storage, sent via email or instant messaging, or uploaded online, the system creates a backup copy with a dynamic watermark containing details such as the user, time, and device. Each external transmission thus leaves a traceable mark.
Employees can add explicit or invisible watermarks as needed, while administrators can configure differentiated watermarking rules for different departments or document types. This balances security requirements with operational flexibility, avoiding excessive restrictions that might hinder work efficiency.
Circulation Tracking: Monitoring Every Step of a Document’s Journey
Through meticulous traceability strategies, AnySecura enables dynamic monitoring of document circulation across all endpoints and channels, ensuring that leakage attempts leave no hiding place.
- All-Channel Tracking: Eliminating Blind Spots
- Leakage Traceability Loop: Pinpointing Responsibility
Whether a file is transferred via external drives, instant messaging, email, or even shared as an image through social tools, the system automatically generates a backup and records comprehensive details. These include the recipient, time, and device ID, creating a full circulation archive.
If a leak occurs, administrators can review circulation logs to reconstruct the file’s entire transmission path: which devices it passed through, what operations were performed (e.g., decryption, modification, external transmission), and by whom. Suspicious activities can be quickly identified. Combined with screen monitoring, this enables a full recreation of the operating environment, providing undeniable evidence of responsibility.
Scenario-Based Watermarking: Covering All Document Circulation Scenarios
AnySecura designs tailored watermarking solutions for different circulation scenarios, ensuring comprehensive protection.
- Print Watermarks: Safeguarding Paper Document Copyright
- Screen Watermarks: Blocking Screenshot and Photography Leaks
Text, images, QR codes, marking points (hidden print watermarks), or dot matrices can be printed on paper copies. Strategies can be customized based on printer models or applications. These watermarks clearly identify document origin and ownership while reminding recipients of confidentiality obligations, reducing the risk of paper document leaks.
Watermarks can be displayed across full screens, within specific applications, or on designated websites. They may also appear automatically when encryption software is active, remaining invisible otherwise. Should screenshots or photographs be used to leak information, the watermarks—including user ID and device details—allow administrators to swiftly trace the source, ensuring that “casual leaks” come at a high cost.
On today’s information security battlefield, AnySecura’s Watermarking & Document Tracing solution equips enterprises with both a visible defense line and a traceable trail. Administrators gain real-time visibility into document circulation across all endpoints, enabling rapid detection of abnormal activities and immediate enforcement of control measures. Even in the event of a leak, watermarks and circulation records provide the means to quickly trace the entire process, minimizing damage and safeguarding enterprise security.
