Dry Dock: a Document Firewall

Background Auditing web site content is an arduous task. For any given page on a web server, system administrators are often ill equipped to determine who created the document, why it's being served, how long it's been publicly viewable, and how it's changed over time.

Invention Description DryDock is a web publishing application that governs the replication of content from an internal, developmental web server to a stripped-down, external, production web server. DryDock codifies a formal approval process that requires management to approve all web site changes before they are pushed out to the external machine. Users never interact directly with the production machine; DryDock updates the production server on their behalf.

Benefits

Administrator can instantly find the complete history of any file ever published More secure and regimented network environment

Features

Relational database that stores auditing information Role-based permission systems Revisioning system that tracks changes in approved documents Synchronization daemon that updates the production web server

Market Potential/Applications DryDock is best suited for use in research or academic institutions which have a heavily decentralized web-authoring environment, and which operate in an industry where heavy publication oversight is legally or economically required.

UT Researcher Deepak Giridharagopal, Applied Research Laboratories, The University of Texas at Austin Jonathan Abbey, Applied Research Laboratories, The University of Texas at Austin

Type of Offer: Licensing



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