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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 and Oracle content management (ECM) integration demonstration

By Simon Thorpe on August 31, 2009 12:00 AM

We've had released our integration between the Oracle IRM system and the Oracle content management system for well over a year. However I thought I would record a simple demonstration of how this integration works and publish it on the...

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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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