The 2nd International Workshop on

Privacy and Anonymity in the Information Society (PAIS)

March 22, 2009, Saint-Petersburg (Russia)

Collocated with EDBT/ICDT 2009

Invited Talk
Dr. Mukesh K. Mohania  is the Keynote Speaker for PAIS 2009.

Title: Efficient Techniques for Document Sanitization

Abstract: Sanitization (syn. redaction) of a document involves removing sensitive information from the document, in order to reduce the document’s classification level, possibly yielding an unclassified document. A document may need to be sanitized for a variety of reasons. Government departments usually need to declassify documents before making them public, for instance, in response to Freedom of Information requests. In hospitals, medical records are sanitized to remove sensitive patent information (patient identity information, diagnoses of deadly diseases, etc.). Document sanitization is also critical to companies who need to prevent malafide or inadvertent disclosure of proprietary information while sharing data with outsourced operations. In this talk, we propose ERASE (Efficient RedAction for Securing Entities), a system for performing document sanitization automatically.

Bio: Mukesh Mohania received his Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India in 1995. Currently, he is a senior manager in IBM India Research Lab, and leading Information Management research group. He was awarded Technical Achievement Award in the area of Web Database Management and Data Warehousing by Association of Database and Expert Systems Applications in Greenwich, U.K., 2000. He received the best paper award for his XML and data integration work in CIKM 2004 and CIKM 2005, respectively. He received an award from IBM Tivoli Software in 2004 for his research contribution to Policy Management for Autonomic Computing product. He was also a recipient of the "Excellence in People Management" award in IBM India in 2007. He received the “Outstanding Innovation Award” from IBM Corporation in 2008 for his Context-Oriented Information Integration work. He is an IEEE and ACM Distinguished Speaker.