A leaked document can compromise trade secrets and
threaten company security. But did you know that even
a document that you send or publish may also contain
sensitive information that may harm your privacy and
company security? Every time you create a document in
a Microsoft Office application such as Word or Excel,
it is automatically and compulsory tagged with extra
information. All documents are assigned properties
that list the document's author, organization name,
document change and reviewing history, any comments
made by the different editors, editing time, and so
on. This information can be useful when working with
documents in a workgroup, but may cause unwanted
problems should it become available to a third party,
putting your company in an embarrassing situation or
even causing financial risk. A line or a paragraph of
text that contains sensitive information, even if it
is cut, deleted or overtyped, may still be stored in
the document's metadata under certain circumstances,
such as if text change tracking is enabled. Do you
want all the notes made by your workgroup members

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