In line with what many IT and security analysts have been predicting Seclore Technology a major player in the Enterprise Rights Management* (ERM) marketplace and Websense a leading Data Loss Prevention (DLP) solution provider have teamed up to provide an integrated solution that will help organisations protect their intellectual property and confidential data, as well as lower the total cost of ownership.

The integrated solution will enable companies to reduce the application of manual rights, as well as reduce cost and complexity, and ensure that policies are applied consistently and pervasively. As a result, customers will be able to automatically discover, tag, and protect confidential information within and outside of the enterprise.

This strategic move by Seclore is a step in the right direction and will enable it to increase its market presence, as one of the biggest challenges about enterprise rights management has been the effort it takes to apply policies to documents. With Data Loss Prevention policies are automatically applied to documents.

With many enterprise rights management vendors teaming up with data loss prevention vendors, I expect that DLP will become a standard part of any ERM implementation. I also see ERM vendors implementing plug-ins for the main DLP solutions in the marketplace to enable the easy integration for enterprises that already have DLP installed. This will increase the adoption of Enterprise Rights Management for organisations that have invested heavily in data loss prevention.

For more information on Seclore’s and Websense’s integrated solution please read the press release here.

*Enterprise Rights Management is also known as Information Rights Management or Enterprise Digital Rights Management or Document Rights Management or Enterprise DRM