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Encrypted Document Ownership: Whose File is it Anyway?

By martin.abrahams on November 14, 2009 3:37 PM

A frequently asked question is: "What happens when the person who encrypted a number of files leaves the organization?". The concern behind the question is that an organization might find itself locked out of its own information assets, with critical...

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New Oracle IRM Desktop released and supports Windows 7

By Simon Thorpe on November 11, 2009 12:17 PM

Released today is the latest version of the client software in the Oracle IRM technology suite, the IRM Desktop. As part of the move of the technology into Oracles Fusion Middleware platform the new release now supports the following 27...

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Oracle IRM at the Gartner Identity and Access Management Summit 2009

By Simon Thorpe on November 5, 2009 10:22 AM

A bit late notice, but i've just been asked to attend the Gartner IAM summit in San Diego next week. I'll be available to discuss and demonstrate Oracle Information Rights Management, details of the summit below. Oracle is a Premier...

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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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Peer-to-peer network exposes document detailing US Congress ethics probes

By Simon Thorpe on November 2, 2009 9:12 AM

Over the weekend a document containing confidential information from one of the most secretive panels in Congress was floating about on an peer-to-peer network. Apparently a junior member of staff went home to work on the memo and stored the...

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Follow Oracle IRM on Facebook and Twitter

By Simon Thorpe on October 27, 2009 9:32 PM

Finally I gave in, too many people kept saying... "you should have a twitter feed for your blog updates". Many in Oracle are embracing modern methods for communicating information about our technology and I decided to jump on the...

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New version of Oracle IRM HotFolders released

By Simon Thorpe on October 27, 2009 8:22 PM

Oracle has built an excellent website for people to share sample code and personal projects with the Oracle community. Over the coming months we are going to be sharing a lot of code we have been using for many years...

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Advanced notification of release of Oracle IRM 10.1.3.5.2 Desktop

By Simon Thorpe on October 27, 2009 3:21 PM

Just a quick note to say that within the next 2 weeks we will be releasing version 10.1.3.5.2 of the Oracle IRM Desktop. This desktop comes with the following updates; Support for the recently released Windows 7 operating system Support...

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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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Oracle IRM Webcast: Secure Your Confidential Documents and E-Mail Everywhere They Are Stored and Used

By Simon Thorpe on October 23, 2009 11:35 AM

We've just announced two webcasts for Oracle IRM, one in November and one in December. Click on the registration links below to join me live for a presentation and demonstration of information rights management done Oracle style :) Secure Your...

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Oracle IRM at Open World 2009

By Simon Thorpe on October 13, 2009 7:21 PM

Wow, a busy two days at Oracle Open World. All the IRM team are around the demoGrounds booth W105 in Moscone West helping customers and the public learn about Oracle IRM working with the wide range of Oracle applications, content...

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IRM, ERM, EDRM, DRM! What does it all mean?

By Simon Thorpe on October 9, 2009 9:38 AM

When talking with customers they often ask if Oracle IRM is a DRM technology. I thought I would therefore go over the main differences between the consumer technology world of DRM and the business world of IRM (or ERM/EDRM). First...

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Sealed Solutions partners with Outpost24

By Simon Thorpe on October 8, 2009 9:20 AM

There has been a lot of partner activity with IRM recently, more information will be coming out over the next few months. Right now one partner in Germany, Sealed Solutions GmbH, has just teamed up with a vulnerability assessment and...

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Oracle IRM contexts, a smart way to implement your corporate classification policies

By Simon Thorpe on October 6, 2009 9:04 PM

A central concept of the Oracle IRM solution is the security context. So what are contexts and how do they help you protect sensitive information in a secure, usable, and manageable way? In the Oracle IRM solution, a context represents...

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Taking the pain out of PKI, a modern approach to encryption

By Simon Thorpe on October 5, 2009 2:26 PM

I was recently approached with a problem where an organization wanted to tie encryption directly to a smart card which the user carried with them. The requirement was that the device stored the cryptography keys that would be used in...

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Laptop stolen with 39,000 Blue Cross physicians information

By Simon Thorpe on October 4, 2009 12:33 PM

Once again the health care industry is struggling to maintain control over sensitive information. The Boston Globe reported this week that the largest health insurer in Massachusetts, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield association, had to warn 39,000 of...

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Rocky Mountain Bank sues Google after emailing sensitive data to wrong Gmail account

By Simon Thorpe on September 29, 2009 2:49 PM

It has been a while since I commented on a data loss incident. I've been concentrating on documenting more about how Oracle IRM works and some of the features. However the past few days have seen an almost http://www.techspot.com/news/36361-google-ordered-to-disable-email-account-after-bank-sues.html" target="_blank">farcical...

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Information Rights Management at Oracle Open World 2009

By Simon Thorpe on September 21, 2009 9:41 AM

The Oracle IRM team is going to be at Open World this year. Andy Peet (Product Manager), Ryan Carroll (VP Development), James Wallace-Hadrill (EMEA business development manager) and Martin Lambert (CTO and IRM founder) and of course myself. We...

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Complete guide to Oracle IRM (Part 4): Using Windows authentication

By Simon Thorpe on September 17, 2009 4:44 PM

Due to an increase in customer activity I have been unable get this guide completed as quick as I would like, sorry! However a whole load of people have been configuring IRM servers to leverage the advantages of using Windows...

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Importance of hostnames for IRM production servers

By Simon Thorpe on September 16, 2009 9:19 AM

During the installation phase of an IRM server for production use there are important prerequisite steps that must be performed to ensure the system is to work flawlessly. Making sure the firewall has rules to allow communication to and from...

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