Enterprises today spend millions of dollars to protect confidential information related to customers and employees like personal information, health records. It is therefore ironical that this same information is, in most cases, shared with business partners with nothing except for a confidentiality agreement and an insurance policy to protect the information. The repercussions of a data leak in transit or at rest at the outsourcing company's end are huge for both the parties. Recent events in data leakage from BPO operations only buttresses the point.

One of the options to protect data in transit to and from the outsourcing partner is to use an encryption technology to secure the information and provide decryption keys to the outsourcing partner. This solves less than half of the problem. Firstly, this technique protects data only in transit and protection of data at rest at the service provider's end is left to other methods. Secondly, the solution does not protect the information through its lifecycle within the service provider's infrastructure i.e. at the end of the legitimate use, an employee of the service provider can send copies of the information to other recipients unless there are other means to control that activity.

Instead of leaving the security of critical information to the security policies of business partners and legal agreements, enterprises can use Seclore InfoSource to protect their information when it travels outside. This is combined with control of the usage of the information through its lifecycle and also its ultimate destruction on an automated basis or in case business relationships change.

Seclore InfoSource eliminates risks of having the digital data privy to unintended recipients. It enables full control of all data being outsourced, and ensuring that the data is used only for the purpose it is outsourced and not otherwise, thereby extending the scope of Enterprise DRM beyond Documents. This also facilitates mitigation of the risk from information breaches whilst enhancing collaboration with outsourced vendors.