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Oracle IRM and the evolution of "information-centric" security

By Simon Thorpe on November 4, 2009 3:38 PM

Whilst responding to an RFI I needed to describe how information rights management was positioned against many other types of technologies that use encryption to protect documents and emails. I thought it would make sense to write up the response...

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Oracle IRM and Symantec DLP version 10 integration announced

By Simon Thorpe on October 27, 2009 9:02 AM

This morning Symantec announced the latest incarnation of their data loss prevention (DLP) technology, version 10. DLP technologies allow organizations to do discovery and monitoring of enterprise perimeters to detect the flow of sensitive information. When DLP detects something...

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Challenges with the classification of content, or, "data labels suck"!

By Simon Thorpe on July 15, 2009 9:12 AM

A mildly heated debate has arisen regarding whether the classification of content/data (and the use of labels) for security purposes is worth the effort. On one side of the discussion is the position that trying to manually classify and label...

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Laid off workers stealing company data

By Simon Thorpe on February 24, 2009 9:57 PM

More news articles published this week are raising awareness of risks involved with sensitive information leaving your organization when employees are laid off. Another research study from the Ponemon Institute, in conjunction with Symantec, surveyed 945 adults in the...

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Oracle IRM and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) technologies

By Simon Thorpe on November 3, 2008 5:36 PM

Just before Oracle Open World 2008 I spoke with a customer who is researching technologies which can help them secure sensitive documents and emails within their organization. I went to see them with our Information Rights Management product manager, Andy...

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Cisco research reveals common data loss mistakes

By Simon Thorpe on October 16, 2008 8:14 AM

Cisco have just released a study into the behavior of corporate employees and their attitudes to security. The study was designed to understand behavior rather than look at the use of technology. John N. Stewart, chief security officer of Cisco...

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Response to Jon Oltsik on ERM

By Simon Thorpe on July 16, 2008 3:55 PM

Jon Oltisk, a senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group recently posted the article titled ERM: The forgotten data security space. He comments on the ERM space, now more usually called IRM, as a forgotten technology with regards to data security....

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