About Disabling Right-click for a specific folder

[freedom10500]

Hi guys, this is my first post here. The help I needed here is to disable right-click function for some users (other than administrators obviously) when inside a folder with sensitive information while being able to use right click normally at their own respective folders inside the shared drive.

 

The main reason & point to do so is to prevent them from copying and paste those files to other locations without permission while being able to open n view those files. (The files are in PDF by the way)

 

 

So yeah, any ideas, guys?

 

 

your help is appreciated very much. Thank You.

[6Foot2]

Even if you are able to find a way to achieve what you want to do here, there will still be ways that those that want to (have a mind to) will be able to copy content from said PDFs and save it (Print Screen, Snipping Tool...)

 

Perhaps another approach is in required?

[mavhc]

Encrypt the files, disable printing, implement IRM, only allow viewing via remote desktop. But in the end no one can stop someone photographing the screen, or memorising the content.

[elsiegee40]

As the others have said, this is futile. If someone is authorised to read a document, it doesn’t matter what security you put in place... they will be able to get round it.

 

You need good Data Protection training for all staff, backed by an Acceptable Use Policy linked to their contract and enforced by management.

 

As suggested by mavhc, they can photograph the screen with their phone if all else fails.

 

I ended up assisting with an incident in a school, not mine, a few years ago where someone had a sensitive email open and walked away from their screen leaving it unlocked. The email was read, and photographed, by another member of staff and all hell broke loose. It’s a shame it took an incident as big as that to make a school realise that Data Protection wasn’t just the IT Team’s problem.