Cara Garretson has written an interesting article in the State Tech Magazine on using Enterprise Rights Management tools to help government agencies protect their most sensitive documents.

Cara puts forward a solid case why agencies should adopt Enterprise Rights Management. I believe that 2011 would see the highest rate of adoption for Enterprise Rights Management, as WikiLeaks remains centre stage and many emerging nations turn a blind eye to intellectual-property theft.

To read Cara’s article in the State Tech Magazine click here.

Enterprise Rights Management over the years has made great inroads into the protection of computer aided design files. 95% of CAD files represent intellectual property of businesses around the world, however the dark-side to CAD is that in electronic format can be emailed or transferred to another party without the knowledge of the owner of the content.

Today many designs are sent to countries like China, Indonesia and India for manufacturing with confidential disclosure contracts binding on the manufacturer, but what happens if a rogue employee gets hold of the designs and sells it on to other businesses? As an owner of intellectual property like computer aided designs you owe it to the survival of your business to make sure you can monitor where your IP is and be in control of it no matter where it may be located.

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