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 documents downloaded onto smartphones and tablets. The documents protected by enterprise rights management can be accessed from iPhone, iPad, Android devices, etc. via the Fasoo Mobile Rights Management App. With consumer technologies continuing to infiltrate the workplace, the new mobile solution will enable businesses to better manage and protect sensitive information, much of which is accessed from these unprotected devices. In fact, more than 76 percent of consumers surveyed use their smartphones or tablets to access sensitive or business information, according to a recent global study by Juniper Networks.

Fasoo Mobile Gateway supports various native file formats — such as Microsoft Office, PDFs, etc — on mobile devices. These documents can be accessed from the Fasoo Mobile Rights Management App, without changing file formats. The solution also enables organizations to constantly protect files; control file access privileges of users, groups and/or environments; and track activities of users and files, in addition to changes in configuration.

“Businesses have traditionally struggled to extend protection of their documents outside of the organization. But with mobile devices becoming so ubiquitous, it’s critical for businesses to protect sensitive content — even beyond the walls of their organization,” said Dr. Kyugon Cho, Fasoo founder and CEO. “Fasoo’s new Mobile Rights Management solution effectively fulfills diversified security requirements for mobile devices without compromising mobility and flexibility.”

To learn more about Fasoo, visit www.fasoo.com. The Fasoo stand will be at booth #533 at this year’s RSA conference.

Source: March Communications

Intelligent policy management implemented at the context level, enabling organizations to gain enhanced control and operability of documents.

Fasoo Context-Sensitive DRM scans documents for sensitive information, such as PII (Personally Identifiable Information), trade secrets or financial data, and automatically converts to DRM-enabled documents with pre-defined security policies.  Policy management is intelligently implemented at the context level, enabling organizations to gain enhanced control and operability of documents. 

Often the cases, documents leak from an organization through email communications.  Sensitive information such as Social Security Number (SSN), telephone numbers are repeatedly mishandled, distributed to unintended recipients, causing enormous financial risks to the organizations.  When an email is being sent, Fasoo Context-Sensitive DRM scans and detects pre-defined patterns of SSN and telephone numbers, and automatically enforces security policies. 

Another example is when files are downloaded from a document library. Documents from the same library can be assigned with different security policies based on their context. 

Documents can be classified based on text patterns defined by regular expressions.  Fasoo Context-Sensitive DRM can activate when documents are in transit or at rest; (i) when documents are being saved, (ii) when emails are being sent or (iii) when documents are being downloaded from or uploaded to repository and (iv) at a scheduled time for documents stored in local drives.  Scheduled context scan can be used to comply with regulations on handling PII or internal security practice.  Thus, organizations can achieve file governance and reduce internal control risks by deploying Fasoo Context-Sensitive DRM.

Techies like me normally assume that everyone else understands the jargons we throw around. So what I intend to do over the next few postings is to explain what enterprise digital rights management is. I have been in IT for over 20 years and I always get great satisfaction from being able to explain any technology in simple terms such that the users or prospects can:-

1. Fully understand the technology in question.
2. Determine whether it is right for them.

On most occasions it gives the users the confidence that they begin to know more about the technology and its application than the person who introduced it to them. This has a great advantage in that the prospect or client is confident about the technology they are going to adopt, which in turn helps them gain a competitive edge over their rivals.

So let’s start with “What is Enterprise Digital Rights Management or Enterprise DRM (E-DRM)?” Also called Information Rights Management or IRM, E-DRMhas evolved from Digital Rights Management used to protect Music and Video from being copied illegally, although this was very unpopular with music lovers around the world.

E-DRM is a tool to help businesses and individuals safeguard confidential documents and intellectual property in electronic format persistently. For example a car company will use E-DRM to protect the innovative design of car component outsourced to another company for tooling. In the future the births and deaths registry will be able to send you an electronic copy of your birth certificate, which you can in turn send to anyone requiring it (how this will work will be discussed in a later posting).

E-DRM has been around for about 10 years and has highly developed market penetration in the Far East markets than in the Americas and European markets. The major players in the E-DRM marketplace are Adobe, Brainloop, EMC Documentum, Fasoo, GigaTrust, Liquid Machines, LockLizard, Microsoft, Oracle IRM, and Seclore Technology.

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