Has your organisation always shared confidential information with external partners? Is that relationship based on trust? Today many organisations are opening up their operations to external partners with the aim of cutting costs and increasing efficiency. For organisations that have developed a long term relationship with external partners, there needs to be an impact assessment on how introducing endpoint security tools like enterprise rights management will affect that relationship. If the management and operations structure of the partner remains unchanged it might be prudent not to change the current relationship.

Managers should however look for opportunities to introduce tools like enterprise rights management where necessary. For example a change in management of the business partner or of its operations could be an opportunity to introduce security tools that make it easy to track and trace what is being done with its confidential information or intellectual property. Sometimes there are occasions where the introduction of enterprise rights management would have to be introduced because of a change of internal operations; an example will be a need to work with more that one external partner, a data breach that cannot be traced to the external partner or from its own internal operatives.

Partners sometimes welcome the introduction of enterprise rights management because it knows that the solution protects it from being a source of a possible data leak, as audit trails can tell who accessed the information and when. Core to using tools like enterprise rights management with external partners is to know when to withdraw the rights on documents, this and many other features of this security tool should be exploited to its maximum to build trust and confidence in each others operations.

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