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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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Many ways to securing content with Oracle IRM

By Simon Thorpe on August 27, 2009 6:08 AM

As part of the launch of the new YouTube channel, I created a simple walk through of the many ways in which sealed content can be created. One challenge an information rights management technology can have is how to ensure...

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Oracle IRM protecting sensitive content delivered from a web application

By Simon Thorpe on August 25, 2009 4:41 PM

One area of Oracle IRM that isn't so well known is the ability to protect the HTML based interface of a web application. Because Oracle IRM supports both HTML, GIF, PNG and JPEG formats, it enables you to build rich...

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Oracle IRM using NT Authentication to control access to sealed documents

By Simon Thorpe on August 25, 2009 4:35 PM

As part of the videos recently released on our new YouTube Channel we recorded a simple demonstration of how Oracle IRM can use NT Authentication to authorise users access to sealed documents and how the IRM server can import user...

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New Oracle IRM demonstration on new YouTube channel

By Simon Thorpe on August 25, 2009 4:28 PM

Whilst building new demonstration systems for our sales group I thought I would share the public training videos we've put together on a new Oracle IRM YouTube channel! The first video to be released was a two part demonstration of...

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Complete guide to Oracle IRM (Part 3): Client configuration and basic system tests

By Simon Thorpe on August 13, 2009 3:39 PM

Now the IRM Server and Management Website have been installed its time to install the IRM Desktop, create a classification and protect some documents to check the system works. Currently the guide comprises of;Part 1: Oracle IRM Server installation Part...

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Complete guide to Oracle IRM (Part 2): Management Website installation

By Simon Thorpe on August 12, 2009 5:38 PM

First part of this guide covered installing the Oracle IRM server. The server is core to an IRM deployment providing the centralized management of users, classifications, roles and rights. It provides the service for authorizing users and issuing rights/decryption keys...

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Enabling Microsoft SharePoint to search Oracle IRM sealed documents

By martin.abrahams on August 10, 2009 2:55 PM

I guess you know that your blog is making an impact when customers start commenting that they've consulted it before asking a question. In response to one such comment, this article provides an overview of how to configure Microsoft SharePoint...

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Complete guide to Oracle IRM (Part 1): Server installation

By Simon Thorpe on August 7, 2009 9:38 AM

This is the first of many articles I will be writing which walk you through downloading, installing, configuring and using Oracle IRM. From its very creation this technology has been designed to be simple to use from both the end...

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New Oracle IRM 10.1.3.5.1 Desktop just released

By Simon Thorpe on August 5, 2009 2:46 PM

Just released is a new version of the Oracle IRM Desktop. This release contains only a few minor fixes, mostly for problems related to supporting new platforms and addressing interoperability with other vendor software. The IRM desktop has a lot...

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Oracle IRM 10.1.3.5.1 Desktop release advanced warning

By Simon Thorpe on July 20, 2009 12:42 PM

Just a quick entry, Andy Peet, IRM product manager has just announced the following; In 2 weeks time Oracle will release a new IRM Desktop for Windows and IRM Unsealer for Mac. This release contains a few bug fixes that...

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