Information Rights Management
Information Rights Management (IRM) is an approach in computer science that controls access to digital information on the basis of pre-assigned protection categories . The approach includes the interaction of security-related , IT-supported and procedural implementations. A similar procedure is known from the music and film industry with Digital Rights Management (DRM) - this protects copyright in a comprehensive manner. IRM relies on the encryption of file contents. In addition, the owner of the information adds rights information in the form of metadata to the individual files . By interpreting this metadata, the file content is protected from unauthorized access, editing, copying or distribution. In addition, an IRM can provide long-term protection against unwanted leakage of information ( data leakage / loss prevention - DLP).
With the centralization and consolidation of IT infrastructures , an IRM offers approaches to alternatively map separation and protection mechanisms previously implemented by physical separation.
Manufacturer / Products
Several software manufacturers offer solutions for the IRM with very different functional ranges and different implementation depths:
- Microsoft: Azure Information Protection
- Adobe: Experience Manager - Document Security
- secunet: SINA Workflow
- Open text: Documentum
Web links
- Information Rights Management ( PC Magazin , September 17, 2013)
- Information Rights Management - How documents can be protected ( Computerwoche , April 27, 2011)
Individual evidence
- ^ What is Information Rights Management (IRM)? skyhighnetworks.com, accessed September 2, 2017
- ↑ Tom Pasternak: Information Rights Management - centralized protection of information. In: Yearbook innovative State 2017. pp. 38–39
- ↑ Microsoft Azure Information Protection microsoft.com, accessed September 3, 2017
- ↑ Adobe Experience Manager - Document Control and Security adobe.com, accessed September 3, 2017
- ↑ secunet SINA Workflow secunet.com, accessed on September 3, 2017