January 2011
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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...