In light of the latest intellectual property theft at General Motors, below is a list of data breaches that could have been prevented by Enterprise Rights Management. After you have gone through the list ask yourself am I as vulnerable as any of these organisations that have been affected?

1. In 2010 a former General Motors engineer and her husband conspired to steal trade secrets about hybrid technology and use the information to make private deals with Chinese competitors.
2. In 2010 a rogue MI6 agent attempted to sell MI6 confidential documents to the Dutch intelligence services for £2M GBP ($3M USD)
3. In 2010 bank details relating to a significant number of companies who do business with Tralee Town Council in Ireland was sent to rival suppliers by email.
4. In 2010 Motorola Inc, the US maker of mobile phones and two-way radios, sued rival Huawei Technologies Co for allegedly conspiring with former employees to steal trade secrets.
5. In 2009 a former Ford product engineer steals over 4000 confidential documents containing trade secrets from his former employer.
6. In 2008 a former Intel Corp. design engineer was charged with theft of trade secrets from the chip maker while secretly working for rival Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Inc.
7. In 2008 one of Eli Lilly’s (a major pharmaceutical) outside lawyers at Philadelphia-based Pepper Hamilton had mistakenly emailed highly confidential information on settlement talks with the US government to New York Times reporter Alex Berenson instead of Bradford Berenson, her co-counsel at another law firm Sidley Austin. The content of the email was regarding a $1b secret settlement on the Zyprexa drug investigation.
8. In 2008 an HP employee distributes trade secrets he received while at his former employer IBM