Data security management applying trust policies for small organizations, ad hoc organizations and virtual organizations

Privacy and data security is one of the current requirements in organizations. In this paper, we present an implementation and management method, using trust policies based on the relative knowledge of the users, in organizations with a high dynamism. Basically, security policies are based on several models which are presented in the following. This paper starts from the need to solve problems of information flow and access control to data in an organization, while the structure the organization is not defined and the actual capabilities of its members are not known. Solution to create members' access to organization's documents, data and information is based on trust. This article complements previous studies concerning the possibility of document security implementation, controlling the information access rights in virtual environments based on Web technologies