The Many Issues of a Human Review Downgrader

In the post 9/11 society, we have all been put on heightened alert to the importance of making sure that data is only disseminated to those that have a need or right to the information. Items such as blueprints and delivery schedules now must be looked at as sensitive information [5]. The government and military have always dealt with this problem. They have created information domains, which are various labels denoting the level of sensitivity of data such as top secret (TS) and unclassified [1]. We will refer to the information domain of higher sensitivity as the 'high side' of the guard and the other side of the guard as the 'low side.' It is logical in military worlds to assume that information would need to be passed between information domains but the process of passing information from low to high information domains or vice versa has rigorous rules governing how the transfer can occur when it can occur by whom etc. The usual answer to the problem is incorporation of a guard which sits between the two information domains where transfers occur. Guards can come in an automated form or one that requires human review of the information before it can be released. What follows is a discussion of human review downgraders and the issues surrounding them [1 12].