Earlier this afternoon, TechCrunch leaked confidential Meetup.com shareholder docs to the public. Although the leaked info didn’t seem to be a major concern to Meetup.com CEO Scott Heiferman based on his light-hearted Twitter account response, this is yet another example of the importance of putting up proper security firewalls around sensitive financial and customer data. Obviously, confidential stamps and do not forward warnings on PowerPoints aren’t enough to deter people from leaking confidential data outside of the firewall into the hands of competitors and alike!

With that in mind, this security breach could have been easily prevented with the implementation of the row-level security features that are built into the Business Objects Enterprise business intelligence platform and LiveOffice. Whether you are displaying information online in a corporate portal or sharing data in Microsoft Office documents like PowerPoint, Word or Excel, you can ensure that only those with adequate permissions are able to access and view the information. Further, you can even establish different views of the information based on user level (executive, management, supervisor, staff, etc.)

P.S. Scott if you’re reading – give me a call if you’d like to prevent this from happening in the future!

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