IRM Protects Your Documents Wherever They Go Published in EContent

I published an article in this month's EContent Magazine called Traveler's Insurance: IRM Protects Your Documents Wherever They Go (only available online with a subscription).

I looked at information rights management (IRM), which is similar in many ways to digital rights management (DRM), except it's aimed at corporate documents, rather than consumer digital content. The idea is to force the document to phone home to a server at pre-defined time intervals. You can define the rights associated with the document and the individuals or groups authorized to use the document. Because the document is linked to a server, you can change the policy if a document is no longer valid or you want to prevent certain users from accessing the content. It can be a very powerful way for companies to maintain control of certain sensitive (or time-sensitive) documents.

I spoke to John Landwehr, director of enterprise security at Adobe, Melissa Webster, an analyst at IDC, Chris Schneider, who is senior product manager for Microsoft Office, Ed Gaudet, senior VP of corporate development and marketing at Liquid Machines, David Mendel, senior product marketing manager for content management and archiving at EMC and Andy MacMillan, VP of product management at Oracle.

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