February 2012
2 posts
Anonymous asked: Data classification is at the heart of any EDRM deployment.
So what should be an approach of creating Data Classification Policy.
Most classification schemes attempt to define the sensitivity of data using three criteria confidentiality,integrity and availability.
this leads to 3 to 4 classification like Secret,Internal,Confidentia,Public is this right approach ?
So what should be an approach of creating Data Classification Policy.
Most classification schemes attempt to define the sensitivity of data using three criteria confidentiality,integrity and availability.
this leads to 3 to 4 classification like Secret,Internal,Confidentia,Public is this right approach ?
Anonymous asked: Hello Peter - I am contacting you to ask your approval to cite some of your content from this excellent blog. I am writing a book that explores the use of E-DRM/IRM and other complementary technologies entitled, "Safeguarding Critical E-Documents: Implementing a Program for Securing Confidential Information Assets" to be published by Wiley & Sons this summer. I have found your posts...
November 2011
1 post
Anonymous asked: What is the best IRM/DRM for 25-100 users on a self hosted server. Andrew Tannahill
July 2011
1 post
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Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Fasoo.com's...
The company is uniquely positioned as an independent vendor of pure Enterprise Digital Rights Management products
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - July 11, 2011 - Based on its recent analysis of the enterprise digital rights management (EDRM) market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Fasoo.com, Inc. with the 2011 Global Frost & Sullivan Award for Competitive Strategy Innovation of the Year. Fasoo.com...
March 2011
1 post
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Should Government Intervene In the Protection of...
Should government intervene in the protection of corporate IP? This is the thought provoking question that needs to be answered in light of the recent loss of corporate IP mainly to emerging economies like China? Is the government a stakeholder when IP is lost or stolen?
From a government perspective there are numerous issues that happen when a company looses its IP to a foreign competitor. To...
February 2011
7 posts
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When network security is not enough
You may be in control of all within the perimeter of corporate security, but when data leaves that safe haven, information rights management is essential, argues security partner of Deloitte, Paul Boichat.
Controlling access to the most sensitive information and data in an organisation is an age-old problem with a trusted technical solution, but is it fit for purpose in today’s...
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Controlling Confidentiality
Cara Garretson has written an interesting article in the State Tech Magazine on using Enterprise Rights Management tools to help government agencies protect their most sensitive documents. Cara puts forward a solid case why agencies should adopt Enterprise Rights Management. I believe that 2011 would see the highest rate of adoption for Enterprise Rights Management, as WikiLeaks remains centre...
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China: The Intellectual-Property Battleground
If the survival of your organization revolves around patents and the protection of intellectual property then read what James Dyson, the founder of Dyson vacuum cleaners has to say about why businesses need to keep their eyes on the ball, when it comes to protecting their IP as well making sure the patents are watertight and properly registered.
Access the full article by clicking here
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UK Government Bodies Are More Vulnerable To Data...
UK government bodies are more vulnerable to data breaches now than ever before. Last week saw the London borough of Ealing and Hounslow council fined £80,000 and £70,000 respectively by the Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) following the loss of two laptops containing sensitive personal information.
I have been consulting with one of these councils for over a year now to...
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When Unauthorized Access To Confidential...
The UK government cancelled a highly lucrative contract last week because the company that won the contract illegally gained access to confidential information that allegedly gave it competitive advantage over other businesses bidding for the same contract.
According to the BBC the cancellation of a deal which would have privatised the UK’s search and rescue helicopters raised...
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Information Rights Management Could Be The Correct...
Over the last 10 years or so there has been a great debate over whether Information Rights Management is a better term over Enterprise Rights Management. However, the more I speak with customers that use Information Rights Management or Enterprise Rights Management, the more I am convinced that Information Rights Management is a better term for the following reasons below:-
The word...
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Fasoo.com to Launch New Mobile DRM Solution at the...
Fasoo.com, Inc., a leading enterprise rights management solution provider, will be launching its latest mobile enterprise rights management solution, Fasoo Mobile Gateway at the RSA Conference in San Francisco from February 15 - 17, 2011.
Fasoo Mobile Gateway extends enterprise digital rights management to mobile computing and enables organizations to apply rights management policies to ...
January 2011
9 posts
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Do You Know What Enterprise Rights Management...
Over the weekend I read an article posted on Infosec Island titled “Putting an End to Data Breaches as We Know Them” by Robert Siciliano. Having read the article and the comments I came to the conclusion that even information or data security experts do not fully understand what enterprise rights management is.
So here is the underlying problem; if IT security experts do not...
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Seminar: Protecting Engineering Data with...
ProSTEP iViP is hosting a seminar targeted at engineering companies titled “Protecting Engineering Data with Enterprise Rights Management” in Stuttgart, Germany from February 9-10, 2011. With a rise in the theft of intellectual property in 2010, engineering companies need to invest in their future and the future of their employees by deploying Enterprise Rights Management. Companies...
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Intel Adopts Enterprise Rights Management
Intel recognises enterprise rights management as core to its future and the future of its employees according to its IT performance report for 2010 - 2011 titled “Delivering Competitive Advantage through IT” in which it said,
“We are implementing a secure integrated collaboration solution for our design engineers, with the goal of protecting Intel’s intellectual property...
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Is WatchDox Enterprise Rights Management?
Two weeks ago I read a press release about WatchDox about the latest round of funding for this online document security business. In his comments Moti Rafalin, the WatchDox CEO said “Legacy enterprise digital rights management and data loss prevention products are failing to address the problem, and enterprises are realizing documents need to be seamlessly protected and controlled wherever they...
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Copy Protect eBooks, Documents and Your Livelihood...
Brisbane, AU January 24, 2011 – Protecting documents and eBooks from copy and redistribution can be a daunting task when having to choose from a myriad of protective solutions that cannot thwart the simplest of bandits. But now authors can rest assured that their livelihood can be secured, by using an ArtistScope document solutions to control exactly who and how those documents can be...
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What Could Happen If You Don't Employ Enterprise...
I was speaking to a senior executive last year who asked what could happen if I don’t use Enterprise Rights Management? My reply was many things, although I could not remember everything single point listed below from the top of my head, I was able to articulate the salient points about the potential risks. So here are some events that could happen if you don’t employ Enterprise Rights...
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Corporate and Industrial Espionage To Rise In 2011
Yesterday the car manufacturer Renault filed a criminal complaint on an industrial espionage case in which it asserts that a foreign company sought to obtain secrets related to its electric car program.
The case involved 3 executives which have since been suspended. In an age where technology is advancing at a pace never seen in our lifetime, organizations will continue to jostle for dominance....
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The Future of Enterprise Rights Management:...
Sachar Paulus of Kuppinger Cole and I rarely agree on the future of Enterprise Rights Management. First of all he still continues to refer to ERM as Digital Rights Management despite that many closely associated with ERM have explained the difference to him. Secondly, he continues to refer to Apple when talking about ERM, unfortunately as great a company Apple is it does not have its own ERM...
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Understanding Enterprise Rights Management
Enterprise rights management has been around for over 10 years and it still baffles me how many data security consultants, IT journalists and bloggers still get it all wrong when it comes to understanding what enterprise rights management can and cannot do. On the other hand it may be there is a lack of effective communication from many of the enterprise rights management vendors.
In an article I...
December 2010
3 posts
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Bill Blake Speaks On Avoiding Data Security...
On December 16, 2010 Bill Blake spoke about how to avoid data breaches and leaks in your office during a Webinar sponsored by Toshiba America Business Solutions (TABS). With all the recent attention about sensitive information showing up on WikiLeaks, Bill discussed how you can avoid threats to your company’s confidential documents.
Bill gives some insight into the history of WikiLeaks...
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WikiLeaks and Cyber Security by Jon Oltsik
Jon Oltsik of the Enterprise Strategy Group is one the data security consultants that I follow and respect. He put across a rational view on WikiLeaks and Cyber Security, I suggest that you read his recent blog post on this topic.
You can access this blog post here….
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Wikileaks: How To Prevent Your Organization From...
The recent Wikileaks revelation has revealed that protecting confidential data is not about whole disc encryption or simple file encryption, but persistent security such that only those who are entitled to access the documents can do so, and no one else.
Above all, you can track and trace the usage of those sensitive documents no matter where they are located. I truly believe the US ...
November 2010
7 posts
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“These first monetary penalties send a strong message to all organisations...”
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Companies warned as data theft disputes surge
Employers warned over data security as High Court data theft disputes rise by 313% and first Data Protection Act fines are issued.
Read the entire article on the Telegraph website: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/businessclub/8157244/Companies-warned-as-data-theft-disputes-surge.html
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ICO: An Organisation with a Powerful Mandate
In light of the recent fines imposed by the Information Commissioners’ Office I am yet to read any criticisms as to why it imposed the fines on the Hertfordshire County Council and Sheffield-based A4e. In fact what I am hearing is that the penalty did not go far enough. According to eWeek Europe online, British consumers would be in favour of stronger regulations for organisations that expose the...
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Hold On A Minute! - Did I Miss the Point?
Yesterday in Michigan, USA a former Ford employee admitted to a theft of $50 million worth of trade secrets and pleaded guilty. The problem with news like this one is the focus is always on the villain and how he or she carried out the crime.
The question that comes to mind for me is how on earth could Ford be so vulnerable to enable an employee steal so many documents in the first place? This...
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LockLizard release PDF Enterprise Rights...
Control and Audit document use with LockLizard PDF DRM Software If you are looking to control who is using your PDF documents, and how they are being used, then look no further than LockLizard Safeguard Enterprise PDF Security. Safeguard Enterprise PDF Security, is LockLizard’s latest Digital Rights Management (DRM) software product providing PDF DRM protection to the large publisher or corporate...
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Swiss Bank UBS employee leaked info on GM's IPO
Swiss bank UBS lost out on a major revenue stream when it was discovered that an employee leaked details about the impending GM IPO. This leak meant that GM is required by law to disclose the e-mail in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Up till November 3 UBS was listed as a proposed underwriter in GM’s IPO, however it was dropped without reason. The person who...
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Enterprise Rights Management A Crucial Information...
The first enterprise rights management seminar was hosted in London, last week hosted by Documentti and sponsored by Fasoo.com. During the event Jason Sohn the International Business Development Manager at Fasoo identified the key reason why enterprise rights management has been rapidly adopted in Asia more than any other parts of the world.
He said it is not uncommon for an employee to leave one...
October 2010
9 posts
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Persistently Protecting Your Computer Aided...
Enterprise Rights Management over the years has made great inroads into the protection of computer aided design files. 95% of CAD files represent intellectual property of businesses around the world, however the dark-side to CAD is that in electronic format can be emailed or transferred to another party without the knowledge of the owner of the content.
Today many designs are sent to countries...
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Quick guide to Oracle IRM 11g: Sample use cases
Simon Thorpe of Oracle IRM has just written a post on what follows on from data classification in his quick guide series. For each use case Simon walks through the important decisions made and resulting context design to help you understand how enterprise rights management is used in the real world. This is a must read article with great insights.
To access this interesting post click here
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Invitation: Enterprise Rights Management Seminar...
On November 11, 2010 Fasoo.com one of the leading enterprise rights management vendors and Documentti Inc, a UK based partner to Fasoo and the company I work for as a partner will be hosting an enterprise rights management seminar. Keynote speech will be given by Steve Gold, the technical editor of InfoSecurity Magazine. Come and learn why you need to protect your sensitive documents and...
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Taking control of unstructured data
This article by Robert MacMillan is a very interesting read on unstructured data, enterprise rights management and data leakage prevention.
Robert a proponent that IT Administrators are expected to manage permissions to data without knowledge of the business context of the information makes a strong argument for endpoint security tools like enterprise rights management and data leakage prevention...
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Solution: How To Avoid The ACS:Law Data Breach
After last week’s high-profile data breach at ACS:Law, BT wants to halt legal applications to obtain customer details of people alleged to have take part in illegal online file sharing. The telecoms company called for the moratorium and it is likely that other telecoms companies will follow the same route.
This really should not be a big issue since the solution to solve this problem has been...
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Strikes, Holidays and Data Loss
By Ron Arden
I was reading an interesting article in SC Magazine about how a transportation strike in London may be a cause for data loss in the workplace. The article quotes Mark Darvill, director at AEP Networks, saying about the strike that “… will drive employees to take vast amounts of confidential data out of the office leading to ‘briefcases around the capital becoming data loss...
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Thoughts on the Recent Data Theft at Foxtons
Last week I was reading the evening standard while on the train on my way home and my attention was drawn to the story on the recent data theft at Foxtons, the upmarket estate agent chain based around West London. What happened at this company is a classic case of a business not using technology to enforce protection on its intellectual property.
The preference for policy, procedure and...
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Enterprise Rights Management Key To Securing...
I was reading a short article on the Computer Weekly website about the recent data breach at ACS:Law. The article echoes what I have been saying for quite some time about the security of unstructured documents. Amichai Shulman, chief technology officer at Imperva commented that the recent data breach highlights a hidden security weakness in unstructured data.
Many organisations have spent...
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Preparing for Staff Layoffs/Resignations where...
Your organisation has just made a decision to lay off staff who are in possession of strategy documents that could result in those documents remaining in their possession after the layoff. What do you do? What happens when a member of staff with access to sensitive information resigns? Do you think the confidential agreement signed with that employee is enough to ensure that he or she does not...
September 2010
20 posts
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New Portal for Enterprise Rights Management
There is a new enterprise rights management web resource called enterprisedrm.net and has been put together to enable you access information on Enterprise Rights Management. This web resource is a vendor neutral portal that contains articles, references to white papers, blogs and the latest news on enterprise rights management marketplace. The aim of the site is to educate executives, CIOs,...
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Oracle Whitepaper: DLP Solutions working with...
Oracle information rights managment has just released a white paper which I believe defines the future of data leakage prevention and information rights management, also called enterprise rights management. This paper is an excellent paper and a must read for senior executives, strategists, CIOs and information management and security managers. The introduction to the white paper is...
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IT Manager Snoops on Hundreds of NHS Patients'...
An IT manager with the NHS faces the possibility of going to jail after it was discovered he illegally accessed the records of friends, relatives and colleagues. During his tenure as an IT manager he accessed 431 records.
John Fitzsimmons, director of performance, governance and informatics for NHS Hull, said Trever’s actions were a serious breach of trust. He welcomed the fact a...
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Meet document security experts at Oracle Open...
For the 3rd year running we will be at Oracle Open World! Andy Peet, Oracle IRM product manager and I will be at the whole Open World event in San Francisco. We will be presenting Oracle IRM on Wednesday, details below. We will also be in the demoGrounds area of Open World showing off the latest features of our 11g release. Feel free to come by and say hi!
Session ID: S317363
Session...
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Data loss, encryption & security in health care -...
Today I’ll like you to head over to Simon Thorpe’s blog to read his latest blog post titled “Data loss, encryption & security in health care - is your medical data safe?”. It starts off by giving you an idea how bad the level of data breaches are in the health care sectors are especially in the US and UK.
Simon goes on to discuss protecting health care records using...
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Gartner Paper Review: Getting Your Organization...
Last month Gartner released another research paper titled “Getting Your Organization Ready to Deploy Enterprise Digital Rights Management”, authored by Eric Quellet who has written many papers on Enterprise Rights Management at Gartner. This paper is based on 4 key findings, 3 of which I think are very significant namely;
The overcomplication of deployments by attempting to accomplish...
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Is Your Price List Under Lock and Key?
Yesterday, I wrote a post titled “What Global Companies Are Spending on Google” in which confidential information about advertising spend on some of Google’s major accounts was leaked to the public domain. From an outside perspective one may ask what is all the fuss about that information becoming public? Well here is one reason, one can roughly work out who is paying less or...
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What Global Companies Are Spending on Google
Do you know that today even the most technologically advanced companies need to take the necessary steps to protect their confidential data? It was revealed last week that someone within Google leaked information on how much major corporates spent on advertsing with Google. This leak must have been a major cause for concern to Google because BP which was one of the companies that increased...
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Leveraging the FUD Factor in selling Enterprise...
By Aaron Momin
Enterprise Rights Management (ERM) is a powerful and effective solution to applying persistent protection to electronic data through its lifecycle. Some folks get this, most folks don’t. And most folks don’t because they don’t understand the mechanics, opportunities and benefits of this powerful solution. So how do you raise awareness to the business units...
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WatchEnterprise Rights Management Video Promotion (40 seconds)
Watch this 40 second clip on how honest mistakes can lead to data breach in your organisation and how you can use Enterprise Rights Management to prevent those data breaches from happening.
This video clip contains a hypothetical example similar to a real life situation that happened in 2008. Could this happen in your organisation today?...